Disclaimer: This webpage is intended to support work within C2B2, including our LivingLabs. Even if you do not belong to a C2B2 LivingLab (or a C2B2 work package) you can always contact us at c2b2@gu.se.
Contact regarding the C2B2 tools
- General questions about the list of C2B2 tools, and questions from outside C2B2: Contact Torsten Linders
- Questions about specific tools, from participants in C2B2 LivingLabs (or work packages): Contact the C2B2 expert/contact directly, or contact your LivingLab lead (or WP lead).
Tools for everyone
These tools are accessible and usable for everyone. The C2B2 expert/contact for each tool can provide some advice. These tools are all web based, intuitive and easy to use, with built-in guides.
| Owner | Tool & link | Description | C2B2 expert/contact |
|---|---|---|---|
 | – Maps for MSP 2022 – Maps for suggested MSP 2024 | Interactive maps of Sweden’s marine spatial plans, both current plans and suggested updated plans, in Swedish. |  Andrea Morf |
| Reversed map | Interactive map of the bottom landscape, in Swedish. |  Mats Lindegart |
 | Facts and figures, by C2B2 | About the economic/financial aspects of the Swedish Blue Economy. To be implemented. |  Nikolaos Xafenias |
| Marine projects, listed by C2B2 | Swedish marine research projects in the Swecris database. |  Per Bergström |
  | Vindbrukskollen | A national map service about the establishment of wind power. | |
 | Water trends – Sweden’s water environment | Map and graph tool for exploring trends, based on aquatic monitoring data, in Swedish. | Torsten Linders |
 | IPCC WGI Interactive Atlas. | A tool for spatial and temporal analyses of observed and projected climate change. |  Hui-Wen Lai |
 | MyOcean | Ocean visualisation tools for users at different levels. | Mats Lindegart |
 | European Atlas of the Seas | Explore, collate and create your own sea map. | Torsten Linders |
 | Value Chain Facilitation Tool | Developed for facilitating workshops within the BlueBioClusters and beyond. | Nikolaos Xafenias |
Tools for experts
These tools are used by C2B2 team members in C2B2 related activities. They may not be immediately available to everyone and all require varying degrees of expertise to use, and corresponding resources and time to produce useful results and insights. The C2B2 expert/contact for each tool can provide some advise. Follow the links ‘More details’ for a bit more info related to access, input, output, effort, and examples.
Finding the required resources and expertise can be discussed with the C2B2 expert. It is of course easier and faster to find the resources for a tool where the “Minimum effort” is 1 month of expert time (e.g. Symphony) than for a tool requiring 1 year of expert time (e.g. EwE).
 Symphony | License/access: After agreement? License fee? | Minimum effort for usable result: 1 month, expert, full time. |
| Input: GIS layers, much is freely available from national and international sources. | Output: Maps, GIS layers, showing cumulative impact. | External examples: – Baltic Sea Impact Index (BSII) Cumulative Impact Assessment Toolbox – Western Indian Ocean Symphony |
 Ecopath with Ecosim (EWE) | License/access: Most is for free. ‘Spatial temporal data framework’ and technical support come with a priced license. | Minimum effort for usable result: 1 year, expert, full time. |
| Input: Biomass (time-series), physiological ratios/parameters, diet composition. | Output: Ecologic and economic descriptors, hind- and forecasting. | C2B2 usage: – Quantifying effects of offshore installations on biodiversity External examples: – Co-creating a food web model – Spillover effects of a fishery closure – Tracing ecosystem contaminant |
 SUBSIM | License/access: Access after agreement, typically involving user covering some expert support time. | Minimum effort for usable result: 1 month, expert, full time. |
| Input: User’s own image data. | Output: Pipelines for managing image data, machine learning algorithms, trend lines and other indicators. | External examples: – Estimation of vertical zonation – Invasive and native fish |
| Owner | Tool & link | Description | C2B2 expert/contact |
|---|---|---|---|
| Symphony More details. | A tool for ecosystem-based marine spatial planning. Uses a cumulative impact approach. | Mats Lindegart |
| Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE) More details. | An ecological/ecosystem modeling software suite. |  Samuel Morsbach |
| SUBSIM More details. | The Swedish national platform for analysis of subsea images. | Torsten Linders |
| Copernicus Marine Data Store | Ocean product catalogue, including hindcast, current and forecast data. | |
| Copernicus Marine Toolbox | A free and easy-to-use tool that interoperates with the Copernicus Marine Data Store. |