Organisation details

 Back

Location Unknown

details

Name
Management Unit of the North Sea Mathematical Models (RBINS-MUMM)
Native name
Unité de Gestion du Modèle Mathématique de la mer du Nord et de l'estuaire de l'Escaut/Beheerseenheid van het Mathematische Model van de Noordzee en het Schelde-estuarium
Address
Gulledelle 100
Zipcode
B-1200
City
Brussels
Country
Belgium
Phone
+32 2 773 21 11
Fax
+32 2 770 69 72
Email
info@mumm.ac.be
Centre Website
http://www.mumm.ac.be
 
 
Changed into
Management Unit of the North Sea Mathematical Models
Year
2011

organisation profile

The Management Unit of the North Sea and Scheldt Estuary Mathematical Models (MUMM) is a department of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, part of the Federal Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs. The unit, founded in 1976, is responsible for marine environmental protection and resource assessment. MUMM's main tasks are :

  • the monitoring of temporal and spatial trends in the North Sea environment through surveillance programmes, also including aerial surveillance (CNUE);
  • the management of marine environmental data;
  • the management of the Belgian oceanographic research vessel (RV Belgica);
  • the management of the State environmental protection activities related to the sea, MUMM is responsible for implementing national and international legislation pertaining to the protection of the marine environment e.g. the Oslo and Paris Convention for the prevention of the pollution of the sea, and for coordinating work pertaining to the North Sea Conferences;
  • the study of marine processes, marine resource management and marine pollution, using mathematical models as a tool;

MUMM is designated by IOC as National Oceanographic Data Centre and as such the Belgian focal point for international oceanographic data exchange. MUMM holds various types of marine data sets since the beginning of the 70's : meteorological data, physical data, chemical data, biological data and meta information. Part of the data is acquired by MUMM, other data are received from scientific institutes in the frame of interdisciplinary projects or national and international monitoring obligations, such as the Nutrient Monitoring Programme and the Joint Assessment and Monitoring Programme of the Oslo and Paris Commission (OSPAR). At the measurement section of MUMM (located in Ostend), the underway data sets obtained on board of the R/V BELGICA with the Oceanographic Data Acquisition System (ODAS), the CTD data and the ROSCOP data set for research cruises are held since 1984.

results in other services

edmo metadata

EDMO record id
431
Collating centre
Management Unit of the North Sea Mathematical Models (RBINS-MUMM)
Latest update
4 November 2011 11:46:47 AM