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EMSODEV - EMSO Development of instrumentation module

EMSO - European Multidisciplinary Seafloor & Water Column ObservatoryDEV (H2020-676555) is a H2020 project that catalyses the full implementation and operation of the EMSO distributed Research Infrastructure, through the development, testing and deployment of an EMSO Generic Instrument Module (EGIM). This module will ensure accurate, consistent, comparable, regional scale, long-term measurements of ocean parameters, which are key to addressing urgent societal and scientific challenges such as climate change, ocean ecosystem disturbance, and marine hazards. Partnership: INGV (Coordinator-IT), IFREMER (FR), HCMR (GR), CSIC (ES), NERC (UK), MI (IR), Uni. Bremen (GE), IPMA (Cintal as third party-PT), GeoEcoMar (RO), SLR (IR) and SPA-ENG (IT). People involved from CINTAL: Sérgio M. Jesus. [official EMSODEV page]

EMSO is a large-scale European Research Infrastructure (RI) formed as a network of fixed point, deep sea multidisciplinary observatories, with the scientific objective of real-time, long-term monitoring of environmental processes related to the interaction between the geosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere. It is a geographically distributed infrastructure to be located at key sites in European waters, spanning the Arctic, the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, up to the Black Sea. EMSO will be the sub-sea segment of COPERNICUS and will enhance the observational capabilities of Europe. An open data policy compliant with the recommendations being developed within the GEOSS will allow shared use of the infrastructure and the exchange of scientific information and knowledge.
EMSODEV is part of the implementation of the EMSO-RI, through the development, implementation and test at sea of a EMSO Generic Instrument Module (EGIM) to be replicated among the various observatories and infrastructures of the EMSO consortium.

The EGIM will ensure accurate, consistent, comparable, regional scale, long-term measurements of ocean parameters, which are key to addressing urgent societal and scientific challenges such as climate change, ocean ecosystem disturbance, and marine hazards. This will result in the increased interoperability of EMSO nodes thanks to the harmonized collection of ocean essential variable time series. In addition, EGIM will also greatly help optimize the investments and operational efficiency of the EMSO research infrastructure thus improving RI effectiveness and its attractiveness for member states and users, including for industry.