Work Packages

Through seven Work Packages (WPs), MARCO-BOLO will connect existing initiatives, optimising and improving methods, and further innovating technologies to structure and strengthen European marine, coastal and freshwater biodiversity observation capabilities, linking them to global efforts to understand and restore ocean health.

Work Package 1

Delivering Essential Biodiversity Variables: Local to Global Biodiversity (meta)Data for Coastal and Marine Systems

Work Package 2

Validating the Use of eDNA

Work Package 3

Linking Land and Sea Biodiversity Observation

Work Package 4

Mapping Biodiversity with Autonomous Systems

Work Package 5

Modelling and Mapping Coastal and Marine Biodiversity

Work Package 6

Stakeholder Engagement and Community Integration

Work Package 7

Project Management, Linkages and Communication