EMSO European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and Water-Column

Observatory

Paolo Favalion behalf of the EMSO Consortium

EMSO Research Infrastructure

EMSO is the European Research Infrastructure of fixed seafloor and water-column observatories constituting a technologically advanced, distributed infrastructure for long-term monitoring of marine environmental processes

EMSO provides power, communications, sensors, and data infrastructure for continuous, high resolution, (near) real-time, interactive ocean observations

EMSO supports a truly multi-and inter-disciplinary range of research areas including biology, geology, chemistry, physics, engineering, and computer science, from polar to tropical environments, down to the abyss

The data generated in EMSO address multivariate questions over different space and time scales, overcoming the traditional approach of focusing on single data streams

Present implementation status

4 test sites active (3 cabled)

presently 11 nodes

9 operating nodes (cabled and autonomous)

Koljö Fjord

OBSEA

MeDONMolène

SmartBay

International Dimension

Ocean Networks Canada DONET Japan

IMOS Australia

MACHO Taiwan

ECSSOS China

OOI United States

** 10 Signatory Countries: Italy, Greece, UK, France, Spain, Portugal, Romania, Germany, Ireland, The Netherlands

Step 1 Step 2Italian Ministry Letter to the Funding Agencies August 2012

MoU Signature process ** August 2012 - July 2013

Interim Office establishment

ERIC Official Application submission

October 2015

ERIC Official Application submission December 2013

ERIC Application review process Next months

ERIC Application review process April 2014 - February 2015

ERIC APPROVAL Expected by early 2016

Towards EMSO ERIC*(application to EC)

* ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium) Indipendent Legal Entity (International body)

10 Countries confirmed: Italy (coordinator) (JRU)^ Greece (HCMR)^ United Kingdom (NERC-NOCS)^ France (IFREMER, CNRS, IPGP)^ Spain (CSIC, PLOCAN)^ Portugal (IPMA)^ Romania (GeoEcoMar)^ Ireland (MI) ^Germany (KDM)+ The Netherlands (NIOZ)+

Planned participation: Norway (NRC) Turkey (TUBITAK) Sweden (UGOT)

Participating Countries to EMSO ERIC

The participation is open to other Countries

^ Full Member (8 countries)+ Observer (2 countries)

Cross collaborations with other ESFRI RIs, such as: EMBRC, EPOS, EURO- ARGO, ICOS, KM3NeT, LIFEWATCH and SIOS

Cooperation with all ESFRI Environmental RIs in the EU project ENVRIplus

Participation in many EU projects (e.g., FixO3, MARsite, INDIGO, ATLANTOS, NEXOS, JERICO-NEXT, EMSODEV)

Links with other EU initiatives (e.g., EUROFLEETS-2, SeaDataNet, EMODnet) Contacts and exchanges with sister research infrastructure initiatives

(COOPplus): ONC - Ocean Networks Canada (Canada) OOI - Ocean Observatories Initiative (USA) DONET - Dense Oceanfloor Network for Earthquakes & Tsunamis (Japan) IMOS - Integrated Marine Observing System (Australia) ECSSOS - East China Sea Seafloor Observation System (China) MACHO - MArine Cable Hosted Observatory (Taiwan)

Cooperation and co-investment with industry (e.g., oil & gas, renewable energy, deep-sea mining, fisheries)

Europe/Global

Links to Major International Initiatives

EMSO implementation and operation: DEVelopment of instrument module

Variable Geosciences

Physical Oceanography Biogeochemistry Marine Ecology

Temperature X X X XConductivity X X X XPressure X X X XDissolved O2 X X X XTurbidity X X X XOcean currents X X X XPassive acoustics X X

Core variables captured by the EGIM and their cross-disciplinary application

EGIM EMSO Generic Instrument Module is envisioned to ensure increased

coordination, integration and standardisation across sites and

discipline

H2020 EMSOdev project (Coord. INGV - 4.4 M€)

Res.Infrastructures/e-Infrastructures

The Ris continue to be data provider also validating the data in terms of quality and significance

The Ris have not to proceed separately “inventing” their own systems, but it is mandatory to be inserted in the e-infrastructure layer that provides access and services (what is in common and especially what is peculiar)

The magic word is “integration” all the components, in-situ, earth observation have to be used in an integrated manner to answer to complex questions. For instance in the marine domain the long-term future perspective is EOOS (European Ocean Observing System) that aims to integrate seafloor, water-column, coastal and open ocean, Eulerian and Lagrangian approaches, interfaces (seabed/water, seasurface/atmosphere), in-situ and EO observations