RiOMar aims to build an original integrated approach combining augmented observatories, innovative digital tools and model simulations to anticipate the future of coastal marine ecosystems in the French coastal area under the influence of rivers in the 21st century

The RiOMar project aims at defining and building, with environmental managers, an original integrated approach combining augmented observatories, innovative digital tools and model simulations to anticipate the future of coastal water quality (primary production, oxygenation, acidification, eutrophication, contamination, toxic algae…) and the functioning of marine ecosystems in the French metropolitan coastal area under the influence of rivers in the 21st century. The simulations will integrate climatic and anthropogenic stressors and will focus on three periods of the 21st century: the recent past (2000-2020) and the present period (2022-2025) to understand the effect of already-implemented environmental measures, the period of emergence of climate impacts around 2050 (2030-2050) and the end of the 21st century with stronger climate impacts (2080-2100).