Galway Bay shallow-water observatory: installation, commissioning and research opportunities

Authors

  • Diarmuid Gearóid O'Conchubhair
  • Eleanor O'Rourke

Abstract

The Galway Bay shallow-water observatory was installed in August 2015 and officially launched in July 2016. The observatory is located within the Galway Bay Marine and Renewable Energy Test Site at a depth of around 23m. The infrastructure has a core suite of scientific sensors monitoring a variety of marine parameters as well as providing dedicated scientific ports (sockets) for marine research projects.

Downloads

Issue

No. 19 (2016)

Section

Articles

License

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya has joined the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities. This declaration proposes the universal acces to the results of scientific and technical research.

All papers presented at Martech will be published in both the UPCommons and the Martech organization web sites, the former being the institutional digital deposit of Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (https://upcommons.upc.edu). This difussion will be made through the Creative Commons License Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 or similar (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/deed.en).

When sending the final paper, the author must agree to the conference having non-exclusive rights on this operation. The author will maintain his/her right to diffuse the paper elsewhere.