One year into multidisciplinary observations

Sofia Alexiou, Project Manager

National Oceanography Centre,

SouthamptonFixO³ First Year – EuroGOOS 2014, Lisbon

4 Year Project Started 1st September 2013 29 Partner Institutions 11 European Countries 23 Fixed Point Observatories

12 Work Packages EU Contribution: 7 million Euros

FixO³

Integrate and harmonise current procedures and processes across 23 European fixed point open ocean observatories

Offer free access to :observatory infrastructures Free and Open data services and products

Innovate and enhance current capability for multidisciplinary in situ ocean observations

FixO³ aims to:

FixO³ Structure

Coordinantion

Support

Joint research activities

Coordinated by NOC, UK

12 Work Packages

International Advisory

Board

FixO³ Observatories and Partners

Vertical Coverage from Atmosphere to Surface Ocean to Seafloor

Multidisciplinary time-series

• Meteorology• Temperature• Salinity• Currents• Nutrients• Water sampling• Chl-a• Zooplankton

sampling• CO2

• O2

• Particle flux• Benthic biology

Real-Time Telemetry

Sensor Frame Deployment 2010

PAP ODAS Buoy

FixO³ First Year Active presence promoting FixO3 11 Milestones 17 Deliverables First TNA call for applications 6 Steering Committee meetings 4 Advisory Board meetings First annual General Assembly –

Crete, Oct 2014

Some include: Irminger Sea Workshop, Boston – Dec 2013 Ocean Sciences, Hawaii – Feb 2014 Oceanology Int’l, London – March 2014 ICRI, Athens – April 2014 EGU General Meeting, Vienna – April 2014 IMBER, Bergen – 2014 Challenger Society, Plymouth UK – Sept

2014 EurOCEANS 2014, Rome – Oct 2014

Presence on International Front

Including :

Launch of website www.fixo3.eu First TNA call Review of current status of all sites Presentation of FixO³ label, common protocols and

standards & best practices Evaluation of Observational Network FixO³ Standards and services registry and Metadata

catalogue ready and on website Collaborative workshops and meetings between Work

Packages FixO³ and TNA featured in several magazines First Annual Interim Report First Annual Newsletter

11 Milestones & 17 Deliverables

Call open from June 15th to July 31st 2014

15 Applications

9 out of 15 TNA observatories received proposals

Now in evaluation phase

Final announcement November 2014

First TNA Call

Some upcoming goals: Data Policy Best Practices Handbook TNA projects from 1st call will be active Second TNA call for proposals Summer 2015 Establishment of technology clusters of industry

and academic partners Launch of visual data products on FixO³ website First Report on Service Activities Mid-Term Review

FixO³ Ahead

Thank You

www.fixo3.eu

@FixO3Project