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One year into multidisciplinary observations
Sofia Alexiou, Project Manager
National Oceanography Centre,
SouthamptonFixO³ First Year – EuroGOOS 2014, Lisbon
4 Year Project Started 1st September 2013 29 Partner Institutions 11 European Countries 23 Fixed Point Observatories
12 Work Packages EU Contribution: 7 million Euros
FixO³
Integrate and harmonise current procedures and processes across 23 European fixed point open ocean observatories
Offer free access to :observatory infrastructures Free and Open data services and products
Innovate and enhance current capability for multidisciplinary in situ ocean observations
FixO³ aims to:
FixO³ Structure
Coordinantion
Support
Joint research activities
Coordinated by NOC, UK
12 Work Packages
International Advisory
Board
FixO³ Observatories and Partners
Vertical Coverage from Atmosphere to Surface Ocean to Seafloor
Multidisciplinary time-series
• Meteorology• Temperature• Salinity• Currents• Nutrients• Water sampling• Chl-a• Zooplankton
sampling• CO2
• O2
• Particle flux• Benthic biology
Real-Time Telemetry
Sensor Frame Deployment 2010
PAP ODAS Buoy
FixO³ First Year Active presence promoting FixO3 11 Milestones 17 Deliverables First TNA call for applications 6 Steering Committee meetings 4 Advisory Board meetings First annual General Assembly –
Crete, Oct 2014
Some include: Irminger Sea Workshop, Boston – Dec 2013 Ocean Sciences, Hawaii – Feb 2014 Oceanology Int’l, London – March 2014 ICRI, Athens – April 2014 EGU General Meeting, Vienna – April 2014 IMBER, Bergen – 2014 Challenger Society, Plymouth UK – Sept
2014 EurOCEANS 2014, Rome – Oct 2014
Presence on International Front
Including :
Launch of website www.fixo3.eu First TNA call Review of current status of all sites Presentation of FixO³ label, common protocols and
standards & best practices Evaluation of Observational Network FixO³ Standards and services registry and Metadata
catalogue ready and on website Collaborative workshops and meetings between Work
Packages FixO³ and TNA featured in several magazines First Annual Interim Report First Annual Newsletter
11 Milestones & 17 Deliverables
Call open from June 15th to July 31st 2014
15 Applications
9 out of 15 TNA observatories received proposals
Now in evaluation phase
Final announcement November 2014
First TNA Call
Some upcoming goals: Data Policy Best Practices Handbook TNA projects from 1st call will be active Second TNA call for proposals Summer 2015 Establishment of technology clusters of industry
and academic partners Launch of visual data products on FixO³ website First Report on Service Activities Mid-Term Review
FixO³ Ahead
Thank You
www.fixo3.eu
@FixO3Project