Strategy for building the infrastructure of EMSO

- Norwegian node -

Bénédicte Ferré & Jürgen MienertInstitute of GeologyUniversity of Tromsø

All Regions Workshop – Paris October 6th 2009

NOON – Norwegian Ocean Observatory Network

• Develop the next generation in marine science technology for a permanent interactive presence in the ocean.

• Determine how ocean warming will impact the gas hydrate reservoirs in the Arctic.

• Develop a national strategy in collaboration with an international research infrastructure.

• Collaborate with StatoilHydro to develop a facility in the Barents Sea in connection with the Snøhvit gas field.

All Regions Workshop – Paris October 6th 2009

Scientific objectives

• Studies of Atlantic water flow towards the Arctic

– Transport of heat, salt and biological material

– Ocean acidification

– Bottom boundary sediment transport processes

• Natural Arctic green house gas emissions

• Monitor the ecosystems dynamics

• CO2 storage in Europe and environmental monitoring

• Bio-geosphere processes and coupling

• Data managements systemsAll Regions Workshop – Paris October 6th 2009

StatoilHydro financed Demo missions

Planned cabled ocean observatory

EU funded ESONET Demo Missions

• Sensitive for warm water inflow and current regimes

• Very few species living in the area

• Methane plume transport within currents in shallow water

• Snøhvit as major energy provider for the observatory and main data transfer node

Why Barent Sea?

Observatories connect to large infrastructure

All Regions Workshop – Paris October 6th 2009

StatoilHydro

Instrumentation

• Physical Oceanography: temperature sensors to measure deep-ocean warming that

changes the gas hydrate stability zone

• Geothermal: in-situ seabed temperature sensor to monitor the propagating

temperature increases from the water into the seabed

• Microbial: Monitor their abundance, diversity, temporal variability and

community dynamics to understand methane consumption and releases.

• Geohazards: hydrate melting will change seabed properties and pore pressure

(submarine slope failures and tsunamis) Seismic monitoring.

Instrumentation

• Methane sensors in the hydrosphere

• Ocean plume and gas bubble detection sensors

• Ocean-seismicity sensors

• Electromagnetic (natural and induced)

• Temperature sensors in the geo- and hydrosphere

• CTD and other sensors for recording ocean acidity and oxygen depletion

• Ocean acoustics to evaluate T, Turbidity, …

• Horizontal and upward looking sonar acoustics

• Digital camerasAll Regions Workshop – Paris October 6th 2009

STEP 1Cable fjord

observatory CFO

Time schedule

All Regions Workshop – Paris October 6th 2009

2010 2013 2016

STEP 2COO at Snøhvit

STEP 3Deep Ocean

COO

FutureNetwork of COOs

All Regions Workshop – Paris October 6th 2009

• StatoilHydro• Discover Petroleum• ConocoPhilips• SINTEF• Saipem• Kongsberg• Alcatel-Lucent• ...

Industries Universities

Gov. agencies

• UiT• NTNU (Tromdheim)• UiB• UiO• UNIFOB (Bergen)

• IMR• CMR

Cooperation with

NOON WEBSITE

http://www.oceanobservatory.com/

All Regions Workshop – Paris October 6th 2009