
Lagoons for Life Resources
Browse our archive of data sources, projects and initiatives, publications, and posters and presentations.
Projects & Initiatives
Below is a list of associated projects, networks and other initiatives that support, and collaborate with, Lagoons For Life:
- Future Earth Coasts (FEC)
- UK NERC GloboLakes
- Group on Earth Observations Blue Planet (GEO BP)
- Baltic Lagoon Network (BALLOON)
- Italian Network for Ecological Research in Coastal Zones and Transitional Areas (LaguNet)

Featured Project
The H2020 CERTO project
(Copernicus Evolution – Research for harmonised and Transitional water Observation)
2019-2022
In Europe, three services (Copernicus Marine, Copernicus Climate Change, and Copernicus Land Monitoring) provide satellite-based information on different water constituents such as phytoplankton and coloured dissolved organic matter in oceanic, coastal, lagoon, estuarine and inland waters. However, these three services use different methods and approaches, while transitional waters are not fully represented yet in any of those.
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CERTO is undertaking the research and development (R&D) necessary to address the above discrepancy and gap by producing harmonised water colour datasets suitable for integration in the Copernicus services. The project is using Sentinel-2 MSI and Sentinel-3 OLCI data to map water quality at the regional and European scale, across a range of water body environments to demonstrate the applicability of the new methods. Factors that have historically restricted remote sensing observations over transitional water bodies such as atmospheric interference in the satellite signal and the impacts of adjacency and bathymetry effects are investigated and mitigation techniques are being developed. All CERTO outputs shall be brought together into a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), the CERTO prototype, which can be “plugged in” the Copernicus services.
The six case studies for CERTO include three estuaries (Elbe, Tagus and Tamar) and three lagoons (Curonian, Razelm-Sinoe and Venice).
Events, Posters & Presentations
A Lagoons for Life Meeting was collocated with EuroLag9 and took place on Friday 24 January 2020, 14:30-17:30 in ISMAR, Venice. The aim was to review what the L4L initiative has already achieved since it was established in September 2017, and produce a workplan (roadmap) for the following 3 years (2020-2022). In addition, discussions on appointing a Coordination Committee (L4L-CC) to improve task coordination and future allocation of resources were initiated.
EuroLag9 – 9th European Coastal Lagoons Symposium | 20-24 January 2020 | Venice, Italy
- Lagoons for Life presentation
GEO Blue Planet “Our Future is Blue” Symposium | 4-6 July 2018 | Toulouse, France
- Lagoons for Life poster
ASLO Summer Meeting “Water Connects!” | 10-15 June 2018 | Victoria BC, Canada
- Lagoons for Life presentation
- Event programme
EuroLag8 – 8th European Coastal Lagoons Symposium | 20-23 March 2018 | Athens, Greece
- Lagoons for Life presentation
- Event programme
- Workshop report
- Presentation by Mr Giovanni Cecconi: Lagoon ecosystem services, climate change and society
- Presentation by Mr Richard Lawford: Lagoons, indicators and sustainable water futures
- Presentation by Mr Steve Groom: Ocean Colour CCI, GloboLakes and CGLOPS
- Presentation by Dr Eirini Politi: EO and its potential for lagoon studies
- Presentation by Dr Carsten Brockmann: ESA CCI data and CCI toolbox
- Presentation by Dr Greg Beechinor: The Global Environment Monitoring System (GEMS) in relation to lagoon management