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Malika Bel Hassen
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28 rue, 2 mars 1934 Salammbô, Tunisie
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Coastal Climate: Tunisia’s climate is temperate in north with mild, rainy winters and hot, dry summers; desert in the south.
Mineral Resources: Phosphate and iron ore.
Agricultural Products: Olives, olive oil, grain, tomatoes, citrus fruit, sugar beets, dates, almonds; beef and dairy products.
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ADDRESSING KEY COASTAL ISSUES AND HOT SPOTS:
Tunisia faces major challenges in connection with the management of its natural resources. Its main problems are water quality, waste management, marine and coastal pollution and nature conservation.
The development of industry and tourism and the growth in road traffic, which are concentrated along the coast, coupled with a rapid increase in the urban population, have put water resources under considerable pressure and are increasing pollution in coastal areas and waste generation. Notwithstanding the significant work carried out by Tunisia on environmental protection, the negative ecological effects caused by the intensified use of coastal natural resources associated with economic development remain the country’s most serious environmental problem.
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DEVELOPMENT AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE NODC
The Oceanographic Data and Information Centre is hosted by Institut National des Sciences et Technologies de la Mer (INSTM). The data centre is a research structure in charge of identifying, collecting and disseminating data on the marine environment. The data are fundamental to understanding the process control of our natural environment. They can provide answers to local questions, for example
the risk of coastal pollution, or the global issues, such as predicting the impact of global warming. The better we can understand these events, the better we can protect ourselves in the future.
The Data centre deals with physical, chemical and biological data. The data are originating mainly from national research and monitoring programs. Many of the data centre staff have direct experience of marine
data collection and analysis. Through collaborations with specialists in information technology data are well documented and stored for current and future uses. Users of the data centre include: scientists,
students, government (administration), and the private sector. The main objectives of the Data Centre are:
- Store, quality control, and archive data, ensuring they are not affected by changes in technology and will be available in the future
- Maintain and develop national oceanographic databases
- Work with scientists during marine research projects and provide data management services during the life of the project
- Distribute data for scientific, educational and development purposes. An effort is made to improve access online data through the web site
- Develop marine data products and digital atlas
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MARINE RELATED PROGRAMMES AND ORGANIZATIONS
The data centre cooperates with several partners nationally:
- Official Authorities of the Ministry for the execution of the research projects and the studies which are entrusted to it by the Government.
- The institutions and public companies which have a close links with the sea as well as with the field of protecting the environment (the Ministry of Agriculture, Environment and Hydraulic Resources represented by the Directorate-General of Fisheries and Aquaculture, the Inter-professional Grouping of Fisheries Products, the National Agency for the Protection of the Environment, the Agency for the Protection and development of the Littoral and the National Company for the Diffusion and Exploitation of Water), with whom it cooperates to conduct specific studies.
- Professionals (in fisheries, aquaculture and valorisation of sea products).
- Higher Education and scientific research Institutions to carry out research programs.
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- Conscious of the importance and the need to work in a regional framework, the data centre is involved in several regional data management projects:
- MAMA Project -Mediterranean network to Access and upgrade the monitoring and forecasting Activity in the area.
- SeaDataNet Pan European Project- aims to develop an efficient data management system for the present and future ocean observing and forecasting programmes, able to handle the diversity and large volume of data collected
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- via the Pan-European oceanographic fleet and the new observation systems
- CIRCE project: aims at developing for the first time an assessment of the climate change impacts in the Mediterranean area. It attempts to predict and to quantify physical impacts of climate change in the Mediterranean area, to evaluate the consequences of climate change for the society and the economy of the populations located in the Mediterranean area and to develop an integrated approach to understand combined effects of climate change.
- SEASAME project: aims to assess and predict changes in the Southern European Seas (Mediterranean and Black Sea) ecosystems and in their ability to provide key goods and services with high societal importance, such as tourism, fisheries, ecosystem biodiversity and mitigation of climate change through carbon sequestration in water and sediments.
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Contacts:
Malika Bel Hassen
Address: 28 rue 2 mars 1934 Salammbô - TUNISIE
Tel: + 216 71 730 420 / Fax: +216 71 732 622
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URL: http://www.instm.rnrt.tn
Messaoudi Saida
Address: 28 rue 2 mars 1934, 2025 Salammbô - TUNISIE
Tel: +216 71 730 420 / Fax: + 216 71 732 622
E-mail:
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URL: www.instm.rnrt.tn
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