The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre is operating a number of computer models to simulate the physical, chemical and biological aspects of freshwater and of the marine environment on an EU-wide level. In order to build policy assessment based on these models, there needs to be a structure that feeds policy-relevant information into the models and that interprets the model results in a way that is meaningful in a policy context.
My specific role is to develop a model configuration focusing on European shelves and analyze the impact of different policies for the period 2020 – 2030.