Overview of Recent, Ongoing, and Future Investigations on the Dynamics and Evolution of European Margins

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Jürgen Mienert | Institute of Geology, University of Tromsø, Norway

Philip P.E. Weaver | Southampton Oceanography Centre, United Kingdom

Serge Berné | Institut français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer (IFREMER), Plouzané Cedex, France

Wolf Christian Dullo | Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften (Ifm-GEOMAR), Kiel, Germany

Dan Evans | European Consortium for Ocean Drilling Research, British Geological Survey, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

André Freiwald | Institut für Paläontologie, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

Jean-Pierre Henriet | Renard Centre of Marine Geology, University of Gent, Belgium

B.B. Joergensen | Biogeochemistry Group, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Germany

Gilles Lericolais | Institut français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer (IFREMER), Plouzané Cedex, France

Vasilios Lykousis | Institute of Oceanography, Hellenic Center for Marine Research (HCMR), Greece

John Parkes | School of Earth, Ocean and Planetary Sciences, University of Cardiff, United Kingdom

Fabio Trincardi | Istituto di Scienze Marine-Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISMAR-CNR), Bologna, Italy

Graham Westbrook | School of Earth Sciences, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

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Over the last 15 years marine scientists in Europe have come together to work on a range of scientific problems related to the geological, physical, chemical, and biological processes that control the functioning of the ocean margin system, the most important area for our natural marine resources. These projects have been commissioned due to the increasing need to understand the offshore environment, especially since its exploitation by the hydrocarbon, telecommunication cable, and fishing industries is increasing rapidly. The most recently funded projects have been brought together by two overarching projects that create clusters of related science activities. The EU-funded OMARC (Ocean Margin Deep Water Research Consortium) project links 13 EU-funded projects on continental margins. The European Science Foundation (ESF)-funded EUROMARGINS (for example Slope Stability on Europe's Passive Continental Margins) program includes 14 projects that study a range of European margin settings from the active margins of the Mediterranean Seas to the passive high-latitude margins of the Northeast Atlantic.

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Mienert, J., P.P.E. Weaver, S. Berné, W.C. Dullo, D. Evans, A. Freiwald, J.-P. Henriet, B.B. Joergensen, G. Lericolais, V. Lykousis, J. Parkes, F. Trincardi, and G. Westbrook. 2004. Overview of recent, ongoing, and future investigations on the dynamics and evolution of European margins. Oceanography 17(4):16–33, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2004.01.

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