EuroGOOS Annual Meeting 2009/10/06-2009/10/08

ESONET All Regions Workshop 2009, October 5-7th, Paris

Integrating and Enhancing the European capacity for open ocean observation: EuroSITES contribution: current status, global context and future vision

Dr. Kate Larkin, NOC, Southampton, UK

- EU FP7 Collaborative Project - 3 years: April 1st 2008 – March 31st 2011 - Coordination: NOCS, UK- 13 partners (7 EU, 1 ICPC)- open ocean (>1000m) - Full depth, in situ: Ocean interior, seafloor and subseafloor

www.eurosites.info

Moorings

EuroSITES is integrating and enhancing 9 existing deep ocean (>1000m) fixed point time-series across Europe

ESTOCTENATSO

Norwegian Margin

Porcupine

Ligurian Sea

Eastern Mediterranean

EuroSITES and ESONET/EMSO: 4 Common regions

Multidisciplinary time-seriesVertical coverage: Surface to seafloor

• *Physical (e.g. T, S, currents)• Biogeochemical and ecosystem variables (e.g. *Nutrients, *chl-a, *O2) - Carbon variables (e.g. *CO2, pH, Particle flux)• Seafloor - Benthic biology - *Geohazards*Real-time telemetry

Example of EuroSITES time-series datae.g. Porcupine Abyssal Plain (PAP)

EuroSITES time-series data:

NE Atlantic, pCO2, 2003-2004

(Körtzinger et al. 2007)

EuroSITES is a regional implementation of OceanSITES, an essential component of GOOS

EuroSITES

Future vision:

List of Minimal Variable Set for OceanSites (MOIN)

1. Water current at 15m depth

2. CTD in and below upper mixed layer (UML) (>10 sensors)

3. pCO2 near surface

4. O2 in and below UML (~ 6 sensors)

5. Nitrate (one in UML and one below it)

6. Irradiance (above water and at two in situ depths)

OceanSITES Vision map for core variables

EuroSITES

Direct link with ESONET WP3 Scientific activities:Towards a standardised set of core environmental variables

Moorings

EuroSITES also promotes the research and development of deep ocean observation

Moorings

Science missions: Water Column

e.g. Ocean acidification (ULPGC) - long-term autonomous pH time-series - photometric pH sensor - Deployed in shallow waters at ESTOC site - Links with EPOCA and CARBOOCEAN

e.g. Deep ocean oxygen consumption (CNRS) - in situ measurement of O2 dynamics (to 6000 m)- Oxygen Dynamic Auto-sampler (IODA6000). - Deployments at: cabled ANTARES site (2200m), PAP site (moored, drifting) and DYFAMED (2010)- Links with HYPOX. - ESONET-EMSO: Porcupine Node and Ligurian Sea

Moorings

Science missions: Seafloor and Subseafloor

e.g. Tsunami detection (HCMR) - Autonomous deep sea platform at 2000m depth, October 2008- Poseidon-Pylos site; SE Ionian Sea - high accuracy pressure sensor - Part of POSEIDON-II project and Greek National Buoy System. - ESONET-EMSO: Eastern Mediterranean node

e.g. Earthquake and subsurface fluid migration (NERC-NOCS; HCMR; IFM-GEOMAR) -Seabed observatory, Patras, Greece, 200m depth, May 2009-flow meter, a seismometer and a data logger.-ESONET-EMSO: Eastern Mediterranean node

e.g. Benthic biology monitoring (NERC-NOCS) - Benthic fauna monitoring as indicators of climate change- Porcupine Abyssal Plain (PAP) at 4800 m depth- ESONET-EMSO: Porcupine node

ESTOCTENATSO

The way forward through integration.1. Regional, collaborative science

Norwegian Margin

Porcupine

Ligurian Sea

Eastern Mediterranean

EuroSITES and ESONET/EMSO: 4 Common regions

In situ collaboration -ESONET DM MODOO, NE Atlantic-Link to existing EuroSITES time-series infrastructure

Mobile and mOdulary Deep OceanObservatory (MODOO)- Porcupine Abyssal Plain (PAP)

Link water column, seafloor, and sub-seafloor observatories for more comprehensive science applications.

Partners: IFM-GEOMAR, NOCS, NIOZ, MRI, UNIAB, AWI

350.000 € May 2009 – October 2010 Associated project: MODOO Connect

Central Irminger Sea:A future international collaboration site?

Planned OOI infrastructure:

Courtesy of Oscar Schofield

Link with existing EuroSITES water column mooring at CISwww.eurosites.info/cis/php

From OO’09 talk on Data Management: The way forward: Steve Hankin, NOAA/PMEL

The way forward through integration.2. Data management

International integration:Towards Ocean information for society

Data management

- Common data policy- Real-time delivery - QC data (data/metadata)- Interchangeable format (OceanSITES NetCDF)- Open access to data: GDACS (e.g. CORIOLIS)

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EuroSITES (as part of OceanSITES) contributes to GEO through MCS, EMODNET and GOOS working towards an operational system for multidisciplinary ocean monitoring and forecasting.

Data managementwww.eurosites.info

e.g. Central Irminger Sea

Data managementCORIOLIS, Ifremer: OceanSITES GDAC

Services and products: EuroSITES: a key in situ data provider to MyOcean e.g. Marine Resources. Cape Verde physical variables

Slide from Pierre Bahurel: OO’09 MyOcean talk.Venice 25/9/09

Now……Continue to enhance interactions and foster direct collaborations with existing initiatives to contribute to GOOS and to the Group on Earth Observations (GEO).

After 2011……Future European funding opportunities towards a more integrated, sustained and operational network?

Thank you

Coordinator: Professor Richard Lampitt: rsl@noc.soton.ac.uk Dr. Kate Larkin: kel1@noc.soton.ac.uk

From OceanSITES