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EMSO is one of the environmental RIs on the Roadmap of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Strategy_Forum_on_Research_Infrastructures European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures(ESFRI)]. The ESRFI Roadmap identifies RIs of pan-European importance that correspond to the long term needs of European research communities. |
EMSO is one of the environmental RIs on the Roadmap of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Strategy_Forum_on_Research_Infrastructures European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures(ESFRI)]. The ESRFI Roadmap identifies RIs of pan-European importance that correspond to the long term needs of European research communities.<br /> |
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The different observatories were designed to address topics of regional importance: the biodiversity of mid ocean hot vents in the Azores region, the rapidly changing environmental conditions affecting the geosphere and biosphere of the Arctic, the deep-water ventilation in the eastern Mediterranean, the active seismicity and the associated geo-hazards of the Anatolian region. |
The different observatories were designed to address topics of regional importance: the biodiversity of mid ocean hot vents in the Azores region, the rapidly changing environmental conditions affecting the geosphere and biosphere of the Arctic, the deep-water ventilation in the eastern Mediterranean, the active seismicity and the associated geo-hazards of the Anatolian region. |
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EMSO infrastructure has the capacity to observe the deep and open ocean, below, at and above the seafloor, at the European scale, utilizing both stand-alone observing systems, and observatories connected to shore stations through high throughput fibre optic cable. |
EMSO infrastructure has the capacity to observe the deep and open ocean, below, at and above the seafloor, at the European scale, utilizing both stand-alone observing systems, and observatories connected to shore stations through high throughput fibre optic cable.<br /> |
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The mission of EMSO is to unite these regional observatories, which already represent cooperation among multiple countries, into a common research infrastructure, to implement more generic sensor packages to collect synoptic data series on oceanographic features of more than regional interest, to bring these data together in a uniform format accessible to the general public, and to ensure maintenance of this research infrastructure over a longer time-span than easily maintained by national funding programs. In the sense of integrating regional diversity into a common European research infrastructure, EMSO is indeed a unique project in the all world. |
The mission of EMSO is to unite these regional observatories, which already represent cooperation among multiple countries, into a common research infrastructure, to implement more generic sensor packages to collect synoptic data series on oceanographic features of more than regional interest, to bring these data together in a uniform format accessible to the general public, and to ensure maintenance of this research infrastructure over a longer time-span than easily maintained by national funding programs. In the sense of integrating regional diversity into a common European research infrastructure, EMSO is indeed a unique project in the all world. |
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| Formation | 01/04/2008 |
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| Headquarters | Rome, Italy |
Membership | 13 member states |
| Leader | Paolo Favali |
| Website | emso-eu.org |
European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water-column Observatory (EMSO) is a large-scale European Research Infrastructure[1] (RI) and it consists of ocean observation systems, which have the object of real-time monitoring of environmental processes in the long-term. The processes EMSO relates to, concern the interaction between the geosphere, the biosphere, the hydrosphere, and the lithosphere, including natural hazards, climate change, and marine ecosystems. EMSO functioning is based on a geographically distributed network of deep-seafloor and water-column observatories. The observatories have been deployed at key sites in European seas, starting from the Arctic, through the Atlantic and Mediterranean, to the Black Sea.
Overview
EMSO is one of the environmental RIs on the Roadmap of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures(ESFRI). The ESRFI Roadmap identifies RIs of pan-European importance that correspond to the long term needs of European research communities.
The different observatories were designed to address topics of regional importance: the biodiversity of mid ocean hot vents in the Azores region, the rapidly changing environmental conditions affecting the geosphere and biosphere of the Arctic, the deep-water ventilation in the eastern Mediterranean, the active seismicity and the associated geo-hazards of the Anatolian region.
EMSO infrastructure has the capacity to observe the deep and open ocean, below, at and above the seafloor, at the European scale, utilizing both stand-alone observing systems, and observatories connected to shore stations through high throughput fibre optic cable.
The mission of EMSO is to unite these regional observatories, which already represent cooperation among multiple countries, into a common research infrastructure, to implement more generic sensor packages to collect synoptic data series on oceanographic features of more than regional interest, to bring these data together in a uniform format accessible to the general public, and to ensure maintenance of this research infrastructure over a longer time-span than easily maintained by national funding programs. In the sense of integrating regional diversity into a common European research infrastructure, EMSO is indeed a unique project in the all world.
Major Science Themes
The deployment of the observatories allows researchers to get useful data in order to understand the behaviour of the oceans and focus on their impact on human society.
In particular EMSO collects data concerning the following main scientific fields:
- Geosciences: gas hydrate stability, seabed fluid flows, sub-marine landslides, geo-hazards early warning, mid-ocean ridge volcanism.
- Physical Oceanography: ocean warming, deep-ocean circulation, benthic and water-column interactions.
- Biogeochemistry: ocean acidification and solubility pump, biological pump, hypoxia, continental shelf pump, deep-ocean biogeochemical fluxes.
- Marine Ecology: climate forcing of ecosystems, molecules to microbes, fisheries, marine noise, deep biosphere, chemosynthetic ecology.
EMSO-ERIC
The Preparatory Phase of EMSO was funded by Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), involving 12 countries of the European area (Italy, France, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, Greece, UK, Norway, Portugal, Turkey, the Netherlands), and Romania, that was involved as external interested country from 2010. The Preparatory Phase put the basis for the adoption of the [ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium), that will be the legal entity in charge of coordinating and facilitating access to open ocean fixed point observatory Infrastructures.
The EMSO-ERIC will be the central point of contact for observatory initiatives in other part of the world to set up and promote cooperation in this field. EMSO-ERIC will also integrate research, training, and information dissemination activities on ocean observatories in Europe and to enable scientists and other stakeholders to make efficient use of a future network of ocean observatories around Europe.
EMSO Partners
Istituto Nazionale Geofisica e Vulcanologia
Ifremer
KDM
IMI
UTM-CSIC
UGOT
HCMR
NOCS
UIT
FFCUL
ITU-EMCOL
NIOZ
GEOECOMAR
References
- ^ European Research Infrastructure: http://ec.europa.eu/research/infrastructures/index_en.cfm