www.emso.eu, the new website of the European Research Infrastructure EMSO ERIC which describes the activities involving the multidisciplinary underwater observatories dedicated to the study and monitoring of European seas, is online.
The infrastructure site, created as part of EMSO-Link, a project funded by the European Commission in the Horizon 2020 programme, was created to communicate and disseminate the activities of the European EMSO ERIC Consortium.
The aim of the new site is to broaden the visibility of the Consortium, both in Europe and outside Europe and to offer the international scientific community a cutting-edge tool for scientific and technological research in the deep marine environment. The first recipients of the information reported on the website are the sectors of science and industry, also offering the possibility of accessing the data of the European infrastructure. The website also intends to encourage the involvement of new users, such as experts in the marine environment monitoring and protection sector and in the academic world, by offering them the possibility of physically accessing some observatories to be able to conduct tests in extreme environmental conditions. The first TRANSNATIONAL ACCESS tender was also launched recently, through which EMSO ERIC will offer the best proposals the possibility of accessing three of its observatories - EMSO PYLOS (Hellenic Arc), EMSO SmartBay (Ireland) and EMSO NICE (Ligurian Sea) - to those interested in studying the behavior of their prototypes.
Finally, the new website will become a useful tool for training and raising the awareness of the non-specialist public on the importance of studying, monitoring, understanding and safeguarding the marine world which is an almost inexhaustible source of sustenance, energy and which plays a important role in climate change.
EMSO (http://www.emso.eu, European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water-column Observatory) is a European-scale Research Infrastructure in the field of environmental sciences. It was established in accordance with the action plan of the European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) and with the National Plan for Research Infrastructures of the MIUR (PNIR) and includes a complex system of submarine observatories for the long-term monitoring, even in real time, of environmental processes linked to the interaction between the geosphere, biosphere and hydrosphere. This system is currently made up of eleven underwater observatories positioned on deep waters and four test sites in shallow water. These observatories are located at key sites of scientific interest in the seas around Europe, from the North Atlantic to the Mediterranean and Black Seas, thus forming a widely distributed pan-European infrastructure.
EMSO ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium) is the European Consortium that manages EMSO. ERIC will have to coordinate the provision of services to the various stakeholders, providing energy supply, data transfer, sensors and guaranteeing the data infrastructure necessary to guarantee interactive ocean observations, continuously, at high resolution and in quasi-real time. The data collected by the observatories involve a wide range of research areas including biology, geology, chemistry, physics, engineering and information technology and in the most diverse scenarios from the polar to the subtropical environment, thus guaranteeing a vast multidisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity. The member countries of EMSO ERIC are: Italy (which hosts the registered office), France, Spain, England, Ireland, Greece, Portugal and Romania.
The new website of EMSO ERIC Research Infrastructure is now online
www.emso.eu, the new website of European Research Infrastructure Consortium EMSO, describes the activities conducted by means of the multidisciplinary seafloor observatories located around Europe and dedicated to the study and the monitoring of the deep ocean.
The Infrastructure website, developed within EMSO-Link project, funded by the European Commission within Horizon 2020, was designed to communicate and spread the Consortium activities.
The aim of the new website is to increase the visibility of the Consortium, both in European and extra-European regions and to offer to the international scientific community a cutting edge tool at disposal of the scientific and technological research in the deep marine environment. The primary beneficiaries of the website content are the Science and Industry sectors, since they get the opportunity to access the Infrastructure data and facilities. The website also boosts the engagements of new users, expert in the monitoring and protection of the marine environmental and academics, who can have the possibility to physically access some observatories and conduct experiments and tests in extreme environmental conditions. Recently EMSO ERIC launched its first call for a TRANSNATIONAL ACCESS offering the access to three observatories - EMSO PYLOS (Hellenic Arc), EMSO SmartBay (Ireland) and EMSO NICE (Ligurian Sea) - to the best scientific or technological proposals.
Moreover, the new website will become also a useful tool to train and make aware non specialized audience about the importance of studying, monitoring, and preserving the marine world, fundamental source of sustenance, energy and that plays a central role in the climate changes.
EMSO (http://www.emso-eu.org/) is a widely distributed pan-European Research Infrastructure in the field of environmental sciences. Appearing in the Roadmap of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) from 2008, it comprises a European-scale complex system of systems made up with open ocean fixed observatories for long-term monitoring, also in real time, of environmental processes related to the interaction between the geosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere. It is presently composed of eight deep-seafloor and water-column observatories deployed in special sites around Europe, from the Arctic through the Atlantic and the Mediterranean to the Black Sea, and four shallow water test sites.
The EMSO ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium) is the European institution steering the infrastructure of deep-sea observatories. The ERIC coordinates the provision of services to various stakeholders, supplying power, communications, sensors, and data infrastructure for continuous, high-resolution, (near-)real-time, interactive ocean observations across a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary range of research areas including biology , geology, chemistry, physics, engineering, and computer science, from polar to subtropical environments, through the water column down to the abyss. EMSO ERIC members are: Italy (hosting the ERIC legal head-office), France, Spain, United Kingdom, Ireland, Greece, Portugal, and Romania.