One year into multidisciplinary
observations
Sofia Alexiou, Project Manager
National Oceanography Centre, Southampton
FixO³ First Year – EuroGOOS 2014, Lisbon
FixO³
 4 Year Project
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Started 1st September 2013
29 Partner Institutions
11 European Countries
23 Fixed Point Observatories
12 Work Packages
EU Contribution: 7 million Euros
FixO³ aims to:
 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 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
Presence on International Front
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
11 Milestones & 17 Deliverables
Including :
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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
First TNA Call
 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
FixO³ Ahead
Some upcoming goals:
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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
Thank You
www.fixo3.eu
@FixO3Project