5-7 oct.2009all regions workshop #2 celtnet fiona grant marine institute [email protected]
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5-7 Oct.2009 All Regions Workshop #2
Scientific focus• Highly ecologically diverse and economically important zone.• Water range depths range from 150 m to 4500m over relatively
short distance• Geo-morphological diversity• Important hydrocarbon production zones.• Important hub of global shipping• Fishing – nurseries, breeding grounds and spawning site• Reef-forming deep-sea corals like Lophelia Pertusa • Original Celtnet designed to study carbonate mounds and coral
reef systems of the Belgica Mounds, sponge ecosystem of the Phaeronema Belt up to Hovland Carbonate Mound, Goban Spur and various canyon systems as well as PAP site.
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Scientific focus• DeepFishMan – Management and Monitoring of Deep-Sea
Fisheries and Stocks – Leonie Dransfield (IMI)• CoralFISH – Interaction between corals, fish and fisheries
– Anthony Grehan (NUIG)• Hermione – Hotspot Ecosystem Research – Anthony
Grehan (NUIG) & Andy Wheeler (UCC)• MESMA – Monitoring and Evaluation of Spatially
Managed Areas – Gerry Sutton – (CMRC)• MyOcean – Techworks Marine Ltd• EuroFleets – Alliance of European Research Fleets (IMI)
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Scientific focus• Significant NDP investment in BioDiscovery project
linked to bioprospecting offshore Ireland• SAC areas coral mounds – National Parks and Wildlife
Service tasked with monitoring offshore SACs as part of Marine Strategy Directive
• One cruise this year, hope that this will continue• Preliminary discussions with oil companies who have
licences in the area. No statutory obligation at the moment to monitor to the degree envisaged by ESONET.
• INSS – substantial high-res mapping of wide areas of Irish EEZ
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Scientific focus
Norwegian Margin
Porcupine
Ligurian Sea
Eastern Mediterranean
The Porcupine node is one of 4 common regionsShared between ESONET and EuroSITES
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Within the Porcupine node, the PAP site is an established time-series site with over 20 years of repeat sampling and with a fixed-point mooring in place since 2002.
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NERC-NOCS, UK coordinate the PAP time-series with National funding as part of the NERC Oceans2025 Theme 10: Sustained Observationswww.noc.soton.ac.uk/pap
PAP is also one of 9 key time-series sitesin the EuroSITES FP7 project, part of the international OceanSITES network
www.eurosites.info www.oceansites.info
Porcupine node Funding
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Multidisciplinary time-seriesVertical coverage: Surface to seafloor • *Physical
(e.g. T, S, currents)• Biogeochemical and ecosystem variables (e.g. *Nutrients, *chl-a,
*O2, *CO2, Particle flux)• Seafloor - Benthic biology
*Real-time telemetry as a data provider to OceanSITES, MyOcean
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Multidisciplinary time-seriesVertical coverage: Surface to seafloor Science topics
-Carbon cycling (upper ocean carbon variables and particle flux)- Benthic fauna as indicators or climate change (time-lapse photography, MODOO)- 2010: MODOO collaboration
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SmartBay
• SmartBay Galway is a test and demonstration platform.
• At second stage of evaluation process
• €10m for construction and 5 years OPEX
• May provide some scope for “regional services” envisaged by Celtnet
• Smart Economy, green technologies, innovation, multinationals R&D facilities
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ESFRI Roadmap• In discussions at national level about ranking
of projects on the ESFRI Roadmap
• At the moment, ESONET/EMSO have “A” rating – along with 3-4 other projects
• No financial commitment for any projects yet
• Testing application for ERIC over coming months for Euro Argo
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Acknowledgements• Mick Gillooly – Director OSS• Kate Larkin and Henry Ruhl - NOC• MODOO consortium• Esonet NoE members thank the EC for the FP6
contract # 36851 signed in Mar. 2007, as part of the EC Global Change and Ecosystems priority