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Improving Member States preparedness to face an HNS pollution of the Marine System (HNS-MS)

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Summary

This page is about the HNS-MS development within the eponym project...

We aim to develop a decision-support tool that national maritime authorities and coastguard stations will activate in order to forecast the drift, fate and behaviour of acute marine pollution by Harmful Noxious Substances (HNS) accidentally released in the marine system.

Focussing on the Greater North Sea, we will in 2015 and 2016:

  • contribute to improve the understanding of the physico-chemical behaviour of HNS spilt at sea;
  • conduct lab experiments to further document the physico-chemical properties of major HNS transported from or to the ports of Antwerp, Rotterdam, Hamburg, Nantes and Bordeaux;
  • produce environmental and socioeconomic vulnerability maps dedicated to HNS;
  • develop a 3D mathematical model that can forecast the drift, fate and behaviours of HNS spilt at sea.

All these contributions will be integrated into a web-based decision-support tool that will help coastguard stations to evaluate the risks for maritime safety, civil protection and marine environment in case of an acute pollution of the sea.

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Background and objectives »

Lab experiments » Mathematical modelling » Socioeconomic vulnerabilities » Decision support tool »

Final stakeholder meeting

The presentations documents of the final stakeholder meeting are available.

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  About the project

HNS-MS is a decision-support tool that Belgian and French maritime authorities as well as coastguard stations can activate in order to forecast the drift, fate and behavior of acute marine pollution by Harmful Noxious Substances (HNS) accidentally released in the marine system.

  Contact us

Web: https://www.hns-ms.eu/

Tel : +32 (0)2 773-2102

Mail : hns-ms@naturalsciences.be

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EU flagHNS-MS has been funded by DG-ECHO under agreement ECHO/SUB/2014/693705 and runs from 1 January 2015 to 31 March 2017.