Norwegian participation in EMSO - European Multidisciplinary Seafloor Observation

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Norwegian participation in EMSO - European
Multidisciplinary Seafloor Observation

• UoT
• J. Mienert

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Background
ESFRI
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Links to programmes

• The European GMES programme for Global
• Monitoring for Environment and Security
  has
• identified a need for a sub-sea component
  of a
• proposed surveillance system as a
  complementary
• instrument to land and space born systems.
• EMSO observatories will allow permanent
  real-time
• environmental monitoring under global
  climate change.
• Thus EMSO is expected to become one of the
  key-
• components of GMES and the GEOS
• 10-year implementation plan1.

1 http//earthobservations.org/docs/10-Year20Im
plementation20Plan.pdf
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Implementation at Ocean margins
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EMSO objectives
The European Multidisciplinary Seafloor
Observation (EMSO) infrastructure is based on a
European-scale network of seafloor observatories
and platforms with the basic scientific objective
of long-term monitoring mainly in real-time of
environmental processes related to the
interaction between the geosphere, biosphere, and
hydrosphere.
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Norwegian participation
Develop next generation of science and
technology towards a strategic observing,
monitoring and prediction system for a permanent
interactive presence in the ocean. Global
climate change will affect the physical,
biological and biogeochemical characteristics of
ocean environments along the Norwegian-Barents-Sva
lbard margin modifying their functions in an
unknown way.
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Participating Countries in Europe
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Type of EU funding

• Combination of collaborative project and
  coordination and support action
• Requested financial EU support 5.6 Mio Eur
• CoordinatorDr Paolo Favali Rome, Italy
• Norwegian partner UoT (on behalf of the
  NNC)
• UoT responsible WP4 (Consolidate funding as
  well as industry commitments)

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Preparatory phase

• Diversity of regional sites in terms of available
  legal frameworks
• Harmonisation of funding (national, European,
• international, industrial) with respect to
  scope,
• objectives, and timing
• Logistic constraints regarding available
  resources
• Possible technical bottle neck solutions
• close cooperation with US colleagues and industry.

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Activities

• EMSO deep-sea observatories will be deployed on
  specific sites around European waters, reaching
  from the Arctic to the Mediterranean Sea.
• EMSO will be integrated from several regional
  infrastructures each based on sub-sea observatory
  sites (RLEs-Regional Legal Entities) all having a
  single coordination entity (CLE-Core Legal
  Entity).
• EMSO will take part in the international
  endeavour in seafloor observatories.

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Norwegian participation
Stepwise construction of implementation plans Stepwise construction of implementation plans Stepwise construction of implementation plans Stepwise construction of implementation plans Stepwise construction of implementation plans
ESONIM is basis for ? ESONET NoE (9Mio Euro) (Deliverable 5) is basis for ? EMSO-PP (6 Mio Euro)
Business plan for CeltNet site is basis for ? Individual implementation plan for 3 generic sites is basis for ? Implementation plans and business plans
Scientific justification Engineering design Financial model Legal framework Implementation model is basis for ? Mediterranean Atlantic (CeltNet) Stand-alone (Nordic) 530KEuro is basis for ? Core Legal Entity 12 ESONET sites 3 to 5 chosen RLEs Researcher/manager position

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NORWAY
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Marine Infrastructures

• Essential for continental margin research
• Large international programmes provide access to
  infrastructures for all countries

Ifremer
University of Tromsø
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Where and how do we plan to operate?

• Academia
• Industry
• Governmental organisations

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Margins Fjords