MY-GES

The objective of MY-GES is to disseminate spatial information generated in the DEVOTES project (DEVelopment Of innovative Tools for understanding marine biodiversity and assessing good Enviromental Status) to a wide audience and to engage the public in assessments of Good Environmental Status (GES) in European regional seas.

This app is dedicated to the general public, with the aim of increasing awareness about GES, environmental EU policies, environmental assessment and related scientific knowledge. The general logic structure of the app will be structured in 3 levels:

i) what the science knows about the environment I am observing?

ii) what I see today in this environment? and

iii) how could I assess the environmental status today?

First of all, the user can select a specific site and then he/she can follow a structured path to make a simple assessment of the environmental status of the site. The assessment will be conducted through a series of questions (elaborated according to the data/maps available for each site). The answer will correspond to “what science knows about each site”, i.e., with the maps elaborated in DEVOTES.

In addition, the user can overlay the maps obtaining simultaneous results of different variables, get additional general information on each site and on which research institute has produced the maps.