Projects

Research

The financing of INCD GeoEcoMar’s research activity is carried out by participating in domestic and international tenders or by direct contracting with partners from the country or abroad.

In order to increase the scientific and technical capacity of INCD GeoEcoMar, the following main funding directions are pursued: internal project competitions organized by the Ministry of Education and Research or other ministries or government agencies, structural funds, extra-budgetary sources and attracted ones (eg donations, sponsorships).

List of projects in alphabetical order (A–Z)

ACTiON: Advanced multitemporal modelling and optimisation of CO2 transport, utilisation and storage networks

The main objective of ACTiON is to establish how an efficient infrastructure, connecting CO2 sources with CO2 geological storage and non-geological utilization options, can be developed as part of regional decarbonisation efforts. ACTiON aims to research and develop a multitemporal integrated assessment model that will support stakeholders in the planning and design of large-scale, flexible CO2 transport, utilisation and storage networks. ACTiON will address geological and engineering constraints, the impact of economic conditions and regulatory environment, as well as the unavoidable uncertainties in defining them. A thorough understanding of the impact of flow phenomena on network design and operation is essential to de-risk the integrated operation by building in flexibility and resilience in response to operational changes in different parts of the chain. Will demonstrate the interplay between such issues by combining them into integrated component models for optimisation of transport, storage and utilisation networks. Complex subsurface and engineering features and processes, such as geological flow barriers, geo-mechanical constraints and well performance, will be implemented as modular computationally independent proxy models to provide the building blocks for integrated models. ACTION will consider networks that link multiple suppliers of CO2 to multiple injection wells and storage locations including depleted fields, saline aquifers and EOR. ACTION will aim to provide the building blocks and workflows for network developers, as basis for efficient design and safe operations. The multitemporal modelling capabilities will be applied to a number of case studies that cover approaches to CCUS network development in different EU Member States, the US and Canada. Pipeline and ship transport will be included, as will be networks of different complexity aiming to support the development of fit-for-purpose, future-proof CO2 transport, utilization and storage networks.

ALIGN-CCUS: Accelerating Low-carbon industrial growth through CCUS

The ALIGN-CCUS project aims to accelerate the transition of the current industrial and energy sectors towards a future in which their economic activities will produce low carbon emissions, in which carbon capture, use and storage (CCUS) will play a key role. ALIGN addresses specific issues in the CCUS chain for industrial regions in ERA-NET countries, allowing for the large-scale implementation of the effective implementation of CCUS by 2025.

AMBIACVA: Excellence research to highlight environmental and biotic changes in ancient and current aquatic systems

Within this project, in addition to the implementation of consolidation mechanisms for the traditional research directions of INCD GeoEcoMar, provided for in the Institutional Development Strategy, it is envisaged the stimulation of the emergence of new directions and research topics, fields that respond to current challenges at a global level and to use the new technologies currently available for the researchers, thus:

the balanced development of the RDI staff with teams of INCD GeoEcoMar specialists, in the fields related to the institute’s main direction of research-development-innovation, the study of old and current marine-coastal-deltaic and fluvial systems;
the development of the specialization process in the narrow geological, ecological, biological, geochemical and geophysical subfields, in parallel with training in interdisciplinary fields (including innovation management, research marketing, intellectual property);
specializations for carrying out multidisciplinary analyzes of emerging pollutants in the Danube – Danube Delta – Black Sea system (eg microplastics, substances with a harmful impact on organisms);
the development of innovation activity, by making inventions related to devices, equipment and methods, useful in various research directions of the institute, e.g.: seismoacoustics, magnetometry, gravimetry, mineralogy, paleontological studies, sedimentology, pollution in the coastal, deltaic and fluvial areas , geoarchaeology;
deepening the concept of “green” protection against floods and/or erosion;
the development of research in bioinformatics analysis, with applications in molecular biology and Environmental DNA (eDNA) for the purpose of investigating aquatic communities;
specializations in integrated investigations in the fields of geology, geophysics and biogeochemistry for the analysis of processes and phenomena that take place in the abyssal part of the Black Sea;
expansion of archaeogeophysics studies in the submarine field;
because in INCD GeoEcoMar a large amount of data is acquired through the specific activities, it is necessary to analyze large data flows; therefore, knowledge will be improved in the following areas:
- methods of ordering and obtaining statistical information;
- data quality assessment;
- management of data gaps;
- data grouping operations;
- methods applicable to calendar date data.

ANACONDA: Co-creAting New wAter quality and Biodiversity Management ProduCts from expansiOn missioN DAta

The project focuses on two domains – Inland Water Management and Ecosystem and biodiversity monitoring, because these two domains are related, also making it easier for end-users to use the results.

Furthermore, relevant guidelines, regulations, and governmental strategies already integrate the two domains. This applies for example to the Green Deal, the European Water Framework Directive, and the EU Biodiversity strategy for 2030.

The project will have three test sites: Forth catchment in the United Kingdom, Volkerak-Zoommeer in the Netherlands and the Danube Delta in Romania.

Analysis and Interpretation of data on Macrozoobentos from Samples collected in the JOSS-GE-UA 2019 Expedition; Setting Threshold Values for Macrozoobentos Indicators and Contributions to the JBSS Final Scientific Report

Within the framework of the contract, GeoEcoMar had the responsibility to participate as an expert in macrozoobentos in the Joint Black Sea Surveys 2019 of the EMBLAS Plus project, in charge of supervising all aspects of the sampling, analysis and assessment of macrozoobentos. Moreover, the institute was responsible with the processing of macrozoobenthos data collected from all partners involved in EMBLAS Plus, thus contributing to the setting of threshold values for indicators.

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