Introduction to the EuroSITES projectKate Larkin (NOC Southampton)

....HYPOX kickoff meeting Bremen

Dr. Kate Larkin

HYPOX Kick-Off meeting, 15th April 2009

An integrated European network of open ocean multidisciplinary fixed-point observatories

FP7 Small-Medium CP: 3.5 M Euro3 years: April 1st 2008 - 2011

Coordinated by:

To integrate and enhance 9 existing deep (>1000 m) ocean observatories into a coherent European network to encompassthe ocean interior, seafloor and subseafloor

ENV.2007.4.1.3.2. Monitoring the ocean interior, seafloor, and subseafloor

13 EuroSITES PartnersPartner Number Partner name Short name Country

1*Coordinator*Data Management

Natural Environment Research Council NERC-NOCS UK

2 Universitetet I Bergen UiB Norway

3 Hellenic Centre for Marine Research HCMR Greece

4 Instituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale

OGS Italy

5 Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche CNR-ISSIA Italy

6 Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften an der Universität Kiel

IFM-GEOMAR Germany

7 The University Court of The University of Aberdeen UNIABN UK

8 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS France

9*Data Management Institut français de recherche pour l’exploitation de la mer

IFREMER France

10*Outreach SOPAB/ Océanopolis Océanopolis France

11 Instituto Canario de Ciencias Marinas ICCM Spain

12 Instituto Nacional de Desenvolvimento das Pescas INDP Cape Verde

13 Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria ULPGC Spain

Oversight CommitteeName Expertise Organisation and Location

Dr. Holly Given Program Director at National Science Foundation. Former director, OOI. Geophysicist.

Washington, DC, USA

Dr. Mary Jane Perry

Member OOI Steering committee. Biological oceanographer.

University of Maine, Maine, USA

Dr. Rick Jahnke Chair, US Coastal Ocean Processes Programme. Member, Observatory Steering Committee, OOI. Deep ocean benthic biogeochemist.

Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Georgia, USA

Dr. Oscar Schofield (Chair)

OOI Steering committee member. Coordinator of LEO15 observatory. Biological oceanographer.

Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA

Dr. Chris Barnes Project Director for NEPTUNE Canada. Expertise in sedimentary geology and paleobiology.

Neptune Canada, University of Victoria, Canada

Dr. Hans Dahlin Director EuroGOOS. Oceanographer Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute , Norrköping, Sweden

Dr. Keith Brander ICES/ GLOBEC coordinator. Fisheries biologist. DTU Aqua - Danish Institute of Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark, Charlottenlund, Denmark

Dr. Uli Wolf International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) team member. Physical oceanographer

ICG/NEAMTWS secretariat to UN Campus, Bonn.

Dr. Dennis McGillicuddy

Ocean Modeller with expertise in the link between fluid dynamics and biology

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA, USA

Dr. Rob Armstrong Ocean Modeller in marine ecology and biogeochemistry Marine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York, USA.

Dr. Marion Gehlen Member of CARBOOCEAN Steering Committee and Executive Board. Ocean Modeller, Biological oceanographer.

Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Paris, France

Dr. Alex Kozyr Data manager. Chemical oceanographer. CDIAC, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

Annual meeting 2009INDP, Mindelo, Cape Verde, 2nd-3rd April 2009

WP1 Existing ArchitectureLaurent Coppola (CNRS-OOV)

WP2 Global Integration and Future VisionSvein Østerhus (UiB)

WP3 Infrastructure Development: Ocean Interior to SeafloorVanessa Cardin (OGS)

WP4 Infrastructure Development: Seafloor to Ocean InteriorVasilis Lykousis (HCMR)

WP5 Data Management and Knowledge Transfer Maureen Pagnani (NOCS)

WP6 Project Management and CoordinationRichard Lampitt (NOCS)

Work Packages

Fixed-point observatories

Multidisciplinary science•Temperature•Salinity•Currents•Nutrients•Chl-a•CO2•O2•Particle flux•Benthic components

Real-Time Telemetry

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e.g. Porcupine Abyssal Plain (PAP) Time-series Observatory

P.I: Richard Lampitt (NOCS)Data Manager: Maureen Pagnani (NOCS)Other contributors: Kate Larkin, Sue Hartman, Corinne Pebody (NOCS)

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Surface: buoy with telemetry capability

40m: Biogeochemical sensors(Nitrate,O2 ,CO2 ,chl-a, T/S, currents, radiometers)

40m-1000m: 10 Microcats (T/S)

Water samples (osmosampler)40m, 100m, 1000m

1. Full depth DOMS mooring (4800m depth)

Other current time-series infrastructure at PAP

Benthic Bathysnap camera system(time-lapse photography)

Sub-surface Sediment trap mooring

3 depths3000m3050m4700m

Sustained, Sub-surface time-series

e.g. pCO2

(Körtzinger et al. 2007)

To integrate and enhance …………

To perform specific science missions and develop emerging technology that will, in the future, form the basis for sustained monitoring of key environmental features linking water column activities with seafloor and subseafloor e.g.

• pH• mesozooplankton• Deep O2 consumption in the mesopelagic• Benthic community studies• Earthquake/Tsunami detection

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In situ O2 Dynamics: IODA6000

LMGEM-CNRS

Anne Robert, Christian Tamburini, Patrice Payre, Michel Billault, Stephan Beurthey, Kevin Arnaud

& Dominique Lefèvre

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Rationale for monitoring Deep in situ Oxygen

Monitoring deep O2 content and its dynamics. To follow a decrease in oxygen concentration related to an increase in temperature (reducing the deep ocean ventilation), linked to climate change

To follow the deep oxygen consumption due to biological activityleading to an increase in CO2 production in the deep ocean, linked to the oceanic carbon cycle and carbon export to the deep ocean.

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In situ O2 Dynamics: IODA6000

Aim: Long-term deployment:-Accurate calibration of oxygen optodes and long time survey, drift, in situ calibration ?-Deployment of seasonal and then permanent sensors + IODA

IODA6000 v4

2 Benthos buoysBuyancy 50kg

Acoustic transducer 25kg

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2000 m

Fixed mooringAntares

Long time scale surveyMonths

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Flash + Deflecteur radar

Ioda6000 v4

Rope 20 m

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Rope 20 m

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Short time scale surveyDay(s)

In situ O2 Dynamics: IODA6000

Oxygen concentration from 2000 m depth measured at ANTARES site between November 1st to December 1st 2008. Data are 6 cycles of 120 hour incubations with the different respiration rates. NB. Data are not validated!

Bulk in situ O2(external O2 optode)

IODA6000 chamber O2

TemperaturePink = internalOrange = external

Ongoing interactions with existing initiatives to contribute to the European and Global component of the Earth Observing System

Integrated Data management

Data policy:-Real-time-Open access-QC data (data/metadata)-Interchangeable formats

Ongoing interactions with existing initiatives to contribute to the European and Global component of the Earth Observing System

Sub-task AR-09-03c ‘Global Ocean Observing System’, led by GOOS, POGO, IEEE (formally CL-06-06)

Ongoing interactions with existing initiatives to contribute to the European and Global component of the Earth Observing System

Sub-task AR-09-03c ‘Global Ocean Observing System’, led by GOOS, POGO, IEEE (formally CL-06-06)

ESONET Demonstration mission: Mobile and mOdulary

Deep Ocean Observatory (MODOO)

Link water column, seafloor, and sub-seafloor observatories for more comprehensive science applications. Partners: IFM-GEOMAR, NOCS, NIOZ, MRI, UNIAB, AWI350.000 €MODOO Connect

Types of ocean observing system

1. Satellite (remote observations)

2. Ships (a) Research vessels (b) Voluntary Observing Ships

3. Drifters, gliders and buoys

4. *Eulerian observatories (a) Shelf seas

(b) Open ocean

Typical MOOSE site

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Meteorological buoy mooring

CTD, CO2, nitrate sensors (0-150m)

CTD, O2, pH, CO2 sensors

(150-2000m)

Sediment trap

Acoustic telemetry

Sub-surface mooring

Glider transect

Acoustic telemetry

remote sensing and real- time data transmission

Satellite

Bio-Argo float

The Irminger Sea Global Node at 60°N, 39°W

Future collaboration site: The Northeastern Atlantic

OOI (NSF) plan fixed and mobile assets to resolve mesoscale processes in association with EuroSITES and ESONET

Potential for collaboration

Potential for collaborationInfrastructure and platformsTechnical know-how Data managementModellingRegional scienceOxygen consumptionIntercomparison of open oceanwith coastal and land-locked seas

www.eurosites.info

ContactCoordination office: Dr. Richard Lampitt (rsl@noc.soton.ac.uk)

Dr. Kate Larkin (kel1@noc.soton.ac.uk) Data manager: Maureen Pagnani (mred@noc.soton.ac.uk)

Celebrating progress and frontiers in ocean observation

21-25 September 2009, Venice, Italywww.oceanobs09.net

Kate Larkin (Programme Committee member)

1. Public Outreach

From OceanSITES

Thank you