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

Authors

  • Paolo Faviali
  • Juan José Dañobeitia
  • Laura Beranzoli
  • Jean-François Rolin
  • Vasilis Lykousis
  • Henry A. Ruhl
  • Paul Gaughan
  • Jaume Piera Fernández
  • Robert Huber
  • Joaquín del Río Fernandez
  • Octavio Llinás
  • Jorge M.A. de Miranda
  • Pedro Terrinha
  • Vlad Radulescu
  • Nick O'Neill

Abstract

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)

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No. 19 (2016)

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