European Multidisciplinary and Water-Column Observatory - European Research Infrastructure Consortium (EMSO ERIC): challenges and opportunities for strategic European marine sciences

EMSO (European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water-column Observatory, www.emso-eu.org) is a large‐scale European Research Infrastructure I. It is a distributed infrastructure of strategically placed, deep‐sea seafloor and water column observatory nodes with the essential scientific objective of re...

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Main Authors: Faviali, Paolo, Dañobeitia, Juan José, Beranzoli, Laura, Rolin, Jean-François, Lykousis, Vasilis, Ruhl, Henry A., Gaughan, Paul, Piera Fernández, Jaume, Huber, Robert, Río Fernandez, Joaquín del, Llinás, Octavio, Miranda, Jorge M.A. de, Terrinha, Pedro, Radulescu, Vlad, O'Neill, Nick
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:Catalan
Published: Instrumentation viewpoint 2016
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Online Access:http://www.raco.cat/index.php/Instrumentation/article/view/317863
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Summary:EMSO (European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water-column Observatory, www.emso-eu.org) is a large‐scale European Research Infrastructure I. It is a distributed infrastructure of strategically placed, deep‐sea seafloor and water column observatory nodes with the essential scientific objective of real‐time, longterm observation of environmental processes related to the interaction between the geosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere. The geographic locations of the EMSO observatory nodes represent key sites in European waters, from the Arctic, through the Atlantic and Mediterranean, to the Black Sea (Figure 1), as defined through previous studies performed in FP6 and FP7 EC projects such as ESONET‐CA, ESONET‐NoE, EMSO-PP (Person et al., 2015)