Your opportunity to access
world-class marine knowledge
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FixO3 project overview
Data products
Service Activities
Transnational Access (TNA)
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FixO3 project overview
Motivation & objectives
Sustained ocean observations
 Crucial to understand natural
processes and anthropogenic
influence
 Require multidisciplinary
collaborations and structured
international framework
FixO3 project objectives
 To integrate EU fixed-point open
ocean observatories
 To improve access to key
installation for the broader
community
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 To provide multidisciplinary
observations from the sea-surface to
the sea-floor
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FixO3 project overview
Structure & activities
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FixO3 data products
 What FixO3 offers:
OPEN access to high-resolution, multidisciplinary, standardised, ocean
data variables (with metadata)
 Useful for:
Scientific research, climate services, resource management, industry
(e.g., oil & gas, pharma, engineering), military, etc.
 Contact:
Robert Huber, MARUM/University of Bremen rhuber@uni-bremen.de
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FixO3 Service Activities
 What FixO3 offers:
READY-TO-USE data products on ocean, carbon fluxes, ecosystems &
biodiversity, geodynamics and geohazards
 Useful for:
Research, climate services, resource management, environmental
monitoring, hazards assessment, etc.
 Contact:
Antje Boetius, Alfred-Wegener-Institute antje.boetius@awi.de
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FixO3 Transnational Access (TNA)
 What FixO3 offers:
Financial & logistic SUPPORT to access 14 open ocean observatories & 1
shallow-water test-site
 Useful for:
Scientific research, sensor testing, etc.
 Contact:
Eric Delory, PLOCAN eric.delory@plocan.eu
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ANTARES (CNRS-Ifremer-CPPM)
Multidisciplinary site characteristics :
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Telescope deep mooring (2000-2450m) with
real time transmission
 Inductive mooring line (1450-2450m in 2013,
500-2450m in 2014) @ 5 levels
 Monthly ship visits: deep profiles and bottles
sampling
Contact: dominique.lefevre@univ-amu.fr ,
pierre.leon@ifremer.fr
Data available (OceanSites policy):
• Physical and biogeochemical data (since 2007) through monthly profiles and
seawater sampling (T, S, O2, nutrients, TC-alkalinity) and UVP profiles (particles
and zooplankton)
• Mooring data (since 2007) with RT transmission: T, S, O2, currents
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DYFAMED (CNRS-INSU)
Multidisciplinary site characteristics :
• One standalone deep mooring (2350m)
with two sediment traps
• Monthly ship visits for CTD profiles and
bottle sampling (surface-bottom)
• One surface buoy (Meteo France) with
weather and surface ocean parameters
Contact: coppola@obs-vlfr.fr,
diamond@obs-vlfr.fr
Data available (OceanSites policy):
 Monthly ship profiles: T, S, O2 and fluorescence (since 1991) and particles & zooplankton abundances
(since 2013)
 Monthly bottles sampling: O2, nutrients, total carbon and alkalinity (since 1993)
 Mooring data : T, S, (since 2009) @ 6 levels + currents (since 2001) @ 200 & 1000m
 Sediment trap data (since 1988) : mass and carbon fluxes + inorganic major elements (Al, Fe, Ca, Si) @
200 & 1000m
 Meteorological data (since 1999): Tair, Pair, humidity, wind, rainfall, solar radiation
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E1-M3A (HCMR)
General Information:
Multidisciplinary mooring located off shore Crete island in an area of open sea conditions, characterized as
extremely oligotrophic where dense waters with intermediate and deep characteristics are formed. A dipole
gyre system in combination with the presence of a number of water masses creates a unique ecosystem
governed mainly by physical processes.
Atmosphere: air temperature, air pressure, wind
speed/direction, precipitation, humidity, radiance, irradiance,
pyrometer PSP, radiometer PIR
Ocean-Air interface: Wave height-period-direction, salinity,
temperature, CO2
Water column: Salinity and temperature (20, 50, 75, 100, 250,
400, 600, 1000m), turbidity, chl-a, oxygen, PAR (20, 50, 75,
100m), currents (5-50, 10 bins of 5m)
Sediment traps: OC, ON (C13, N15), TC, TN, (C13, N15), Si,
Al, Ca, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn, As, Cd and Pb,
Biochemical (proteins, sugars, lipids), Biomarkers, Black
Carbon.
Contact:
Petihakis George
Institute of Oceanography , HCMR
Former US base at Gournes P.O. Box 2214 HERAKLION
CRETE GR 71 003
Tel: +30 2810 337755
E-mail:
gpetihakis@hcmr.gr
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Latitude: 35.74 N Longitude: 25.12 E
Operational since: 2000
Depth: 1440 m
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E2-M3A (OGS)
MEASURED PARAMETERS
SURFACE BUOY [Near Real Time mode]
Oceanographic
parameters
Nominal Depth [m]
Temperature and salinity, pH,
PCO2, Dissolved Oxygen
15 m
Meteorological parameters
10 m a.s.l
DEEP MOORING [Delayed mode]
The E2-M3A observatory is located in the center of the
Southern Adriatic, where deep convection and cascading
of dense water take place, involving both the atmosphere
and the ocean dynamics, and triggering the solubility and
the biological pumps. The E2-M3A observatory is
particularly devoted towards studies that characterize the
long-term changes of Adriatic Sea in response to local
climatic forcing.
It can host self-recording instruments both on the
surface buoy and on the deep mooring.
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Oceanographic
parameters
Nominal Depth [m]
Temperature and salinity,
pressure
330, 550, 730, 900, 1000,
1150, 1165 m
Dissolved Oxygen
330, 730, 1000, 1150,
1165 m
Trasmittance
330 m
Currents (profiling)
170-318 m
Currents
1165 m
Turbidity
1165 m
http://nettuno.ogs.trieste.it/e2-m3a/
http://www.fixo3.eu/observatory/e2-m3a/
Ref. person: Vanessa Cardin, vcardin@ogs.trieste.it
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ESTOC (PLOCAN)
Buoy and mooring
Hosting: Buoy can host additional instrumentation for
atmospheric and air-sea interface. Mooring can host
autonomous systems. Clamp systems and other mechanical
adapters can be manufactured locally upon request. Satellite link
is Argos 3 for low data rate systems.
Data: Atmosphere: Wind, temperature, humidity, pressure, solar
radiation
Ocean-Air interface: pH, CO2, Chl-a, salinity, temperature,
dissolved oxygen, turbidity and hydrocarbon
Water column: Salinity, temperature, nutrients, current
www.plocan.eu
Gliders
Beside logistical, technological and scientific support for all installations, gliders are available for complementary
measurements in the vicinity of the station. Our gliders (Fig.2) operate four times a year to and from the ESTOC site,
allowing for sensor intercomparison and validation. Variables measured include salinity, temperature, current, depth,
turbidity, CDOM, chlorophyll-a, oxygen. Hosting of additional instruments: some of our gliders have an open
architecture, thus can host a variety of sensors and communication systems, e.g. hydrophone, radiometer, PAR,
modem, and small autonomous instruments. As part of TNA, the preparatory work may include test of equipment at the
PLOCAN shore-side and offshore facilities, support on the interfacing, cruise preparation meetings. The teams involved
in transnational access will participate to the deployment and to the recovery cruises.
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Filchner-Ronne (UniResearch)
The UNI Research Observatory “S2” at the Filchner Sill is a long-term
observing system for the oceanic regime of Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica
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FRAM (AWI)
Multidisciplinary time-series studies
in the deep Arctic Ocean
Contact : Thomas Soltwedel (Thomas.Soltwedel@awi.de)
Objectives:
Variations in ocean circulation,
water mass properties, primary production and sea-ice retreat
on Arctic marine ecosystems, and their main functions and services.
Infrastructure:
Array of moorings and permanent sampling sites across the Fram Strait.
Enables year-round multidisciplinary long-term observations,
partially with near real-time data access.
Surface and mid waters:
Annual ship operations are used for sensor installation, maintenance and data download;
Oceanographic moorings and sediment-trap moorings that can host additional autonomous systems.
Measurements and sampling: CTD, water sampling, plankton hauls, detection of zooplankton by optical systems.
Data: Temperature, salinity, currents, oxygen, pH, CO2, fluorescence, Chl-a, nutrient budgets, plankton productivity, POC
export, plankton diversity, ground truthing for remote sensing.
Seafloor:
Additional sensor packages and experiments can be mounted on moored lander systems.
Measurements, sampling and observation: Microprofiler and SCOC measurements; sediment sampling; seafloor imaging.
Data: Temperature, Salinity, currents, oxygen, particle flux, benthic organisms (bacteria to megafauna),
benthic biomass and diversity, respiration, nutrient fluxes.
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MOMAR (Ifremer)
Characteristics:
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Permanent seafloor observatory to record
seismicity, seafloor deformation, fluid flow,
temperature and composition, and the
evolution of vent habitats (including
microbes).
One node SEAMON west : geophysics study
(OBS and pressure gauge)
One node SEAMON east: ecology studies,
hydrothermal fauna (tempo camera &
turbidimeter)
Contact: cannat@ipgp.fr,
Pierre.Marie.Sarradin@ifremer.fr
Data available:
Multidisciplinary data : fauna, fluid chemistry, seismic, acoustic and geodetic data.
Near real time connection through acoustic link, buoy and satellite communication
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NEMO-SN1 (INGV)
NEMO-SN1 scientific payload
Western Ionian Sea
Latitude 37.5
Longitude 15.4
Depth 2036 m
Sensor
Acquisition rate
Hydrophone (SMID)
2 kHz
Absolute Pressure Sensor
1/15 s (*)
Accelerometer+Gyros (IMU)
200 Hz
Gravity meter
1 Hz
CTD + Turbid meter
1 sample / hour (*)
ADCP
4 profile / hour (*)
Vectorial magnetometer
1 Hz
Scalar magnetometer
1 / h (*)
Current meter
2 Hz(*)
Triaxial broad band seismometer
100 Hz
Differential Pressure Gauge
100 Hz
Hydrophone (OAS)
100 Hz
High frequency hydrophones
96 kHz
Characteristics
-Cabled by 25 km electro-optical cable to shore
laboratory in Catania harbour
-Real-time data acquisition
-Configurable instrumentation
-Complete remote management
SN1 recovery – 21 july 2013
-GPS time available
offshore for data timestamping
-Real-time data available on website moist.rm.ingv.it
OBSEA (UPC)
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Barcelona, Spain. Located 20m depth, 4km offshore Vilanova harbour, 16 wetmate
connectors for instrumentation: available power (12-48V), communications
(Ethernet, RS232, RS485) and synchronization (PPS, PTP IEEE1588).
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Operations by scuba divers and small boats.
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Instruments at sea floor: CTD, AWAC, Hydrophone, Seismometer, Video Camera.
Instruments at surface buoy Meteo Station, and video camera
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Real time access to data and instruments and hourly data average with QC/QA are
available in .csv and netCDF format. Archive at MyOcean and Emodnet Physics.
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PAP (NOC)
Porcupine Abyssal Plain Observatory
Array covering the entire water column and
benthos with repeat ship occupations for process
studies and collections not possible autonomously
(e.g. benthic megafauna)
Longest running multidisciplinary North Atlantic
open ocean sustained observatory delivering
atmospheric, physical and biogeochemical ocean
datasets in near real-time.
Surface and upper ocean
Hosting: additional instrumentation for atmospheric, air-sea
interface and upper ocean monitoring.
Data for atmosphere and water column
Sub-surface sediment trap mooring
Hosting: instrumentation at depths between 3000 – 4800m
depth
Data: particle flux and currents
http://noc.ac.uk/pap
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Seafloor
Hosting: Lander system with Bathysnap time-lapse camera
positioned on the seafloor at 4850m depth.
Additional sensors can be mounted on module
Data: time-lapse photography for seafloor ecosystem
studies.
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PYLOS (HCMR)
General Information:
Contact Information:
Hellenic Center for Marine Research
(HCMR)
46.7 Km Athens-Sounion Avenue
Anavyssos, Attica, 19013 GREECE
Website: www.poseidon.hcmr.gr
Contacts:
Leonidas Perivoliotis,
email: lperiv@hcmr.gr
Tel: +302291076400
Dimitris Velaoras,
email: dvelaoras@hcmr.gr
Tel: +30229107368
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The observatory operates since May 2007 in the SE Ionian Sea at a depth
of 1670m. The observatory includes a water column component and an
autonomous seabed platform.
The water column component consists of a surface Wavescan type buoy
equipped with sensors for meteorological, waves and surface
oceanographic parameters as well as a suite of CTD sensors attached on
the inductive mooring line (20, 50, 75, 100, 250, 400, 600, 1000m).
The seabed component consists of an autonomous platform equipped with
a high accuracy and sampling frequency pressure sensor for tsunami
detection as part of an early warning system. The platform is also equipped
with a CTD probe and dissolved oxygen sensor, offering at the same time
near-floor deep observations in the Eastern Mediterranean sea.
The mooring line also hosts a set of Passive Aquatic Listeners (PAL) for
rainfall estimates and marine mammal acoustic detection.
All sensors provide real time hydrological observations of this key-area.
Surface and water column Data:
Atmosphere: Wind speed and direction, temperature, air pressure, humidity
Ocean-Air interface: Wave height-period-direction, salinity, temperature,
current speed and direction
Water column: Salinity, temperature, current
Seafloor Data:
Salinity, temperature, pressure, dissolved oxygen, CO2, CH4, turbidity and
pH
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Station M (UniResearch)
Argossender
2 glass
kuler
3 stk. Glasskuler
RCM-9
300m kevlar
4 stk. Glasskuler
RCM-9
900m kevlar
4 stk. Glasskuler
RCM-98
Wire 100m
250kg
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TENATSO/CVOO (INDP)
Contact: Pericles Silva
E-mail: pericles.silva@indp.gov.cv
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Mooring: Single mooring, steel wire with Measurements: Salinity, Temperature,
Pressure, Oxygen, pCO2, ADCP, Currents, Sediment Trap, telemetry buoy for
near-surface data of Salinity, Temperature and Oxygen.
Ship surveys: RV Islandia with CTD measurements for: salinity, temperature,
oxygen, PAR, fluorescence, turbidity.
Laboratory analysis and technical support for: dissolved oxygen, nutrients with
autoanalyzer (SEAl Analytical QuAAtro 6.07), chlorophyll and salinity.
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W1-M3A (CNR)
MEASURED PARAMETERS
Near surface atmospheric
Atmospheric pressure (8 m)
2D & 3D wind speed and direction (10 m)
Air temperature and relative humidity (10 m)
Short- and long-wave radiation (10 m)
Rainfall (10 m)
Upper ocean physical and bio-geo-chemical
The W1-M3A open ocean multidisciplinary observing system is
permanently deployed in the Ligurian Sea (North-Western
Mediterranean Sea) on a deep sea bed (1200 m), 80 Km offshore.
It is composed of the large spar buoy (51 m long, 12 tons
weight) ODAS Italia 1 and a sub surface mooring periodically
deployed close-by.
Near real-time data transfer capability through IRIDIUM system.
Space and power available for installing/deploying new
instruments that can be easily interfaced to the on-board
acquisition system.
Temperature (surface buoy: 0, 6, 12, 20, 28, 36 m)
Salinity (surface buoy: 6, 20, 36 m)
Pressure (36 m)
Dissolved oxygen (6 m)
Chlorophyll-a and turbidity (6 m)
pCO2 (6 m)
Dark region physical
Temperature (mooring: 130, 190, 230, 350, 550, 950 m)
Salinity (mooring: 130, 190, 350, 550, 950 m)
Roberto Bozzano, roberto.bozzano@cnr.it
Sara Pensieri, sara.pensieri@ge.issia.cnr.it
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