Europole Mer : research consortium on marine science and technology in Brittany

The first session of the workshop (Thursday afternoon) will discuss recent scientific works on Argo in Europe through a series of invited presentations. The second session (Friday morning) will be limited to Euro-Argo partners and will be focused on coordinating Argo float deployments in Europe for the coming years, discussing several data processing issues and reviewing the status of Euro-Argo ERIC application.

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Note: this workshop is public and open to everyone from the symposium on Thursday afternoon.

Since many years Voluntary Opportunity Ships as shipping or ferry boats are used to acquire physical data of the surface of the ocean. In order to use other kinds of VOS, we are producing new generation of sensors as RECOPESCA for fishing boats and CANOE for sailing boats. This workshop will present this new generation of sensors and the future opportunities.

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Water resource management is becoming an urgent challenge, for Europe and the world, as populations grow and requirements increase. Degradation of our coastal and estuarine waters is of particular concern to policy makers at regional, national, EU and international levels, and increasingly so to the public at large. The EMSAC project addresses this challenge by ensuring that Europe’s knowledge on water resource is effectively directed towards building the mix of solutions required. This includes topics like water quality, prevention of coastal risks and living resource management. EMSAC helps to achieve this by working collaboratively with clusters of expertise in different regions of Europe, involving research institutions, businesses and public authorities. This workshop will host the third General Assembly of EMSAC focused on defining the Joint Action Plan between partners.

EuroMarine is a Coordination Action among research institutions that were involved in FP6 marine Networks of Excellence (Marine Genomics Europe, EUR-OCEANS and MarBEF) to achieve further integration of marine research in Europe, notably across molecular, organism and ecological approaches. With respect to scientific data, EuroMarine will investigate means of integration at the points of (1) sampling & data collection, (2) data curation & archiving, (3) dissemination & visualisation, and (4) linking data to scientific journal publications. The proposed round table will bring together 15 experts/users in these areas of integration in order to draft a Vision Paper for data integration in marine science.
A public consultation of the draft Vision Paper will be organised in 2012 using on-line surveys and a number of venues that will target data management and scientific communities of the former Networks of Excellence, as well as international data-related initiatives and communities.

The public and ESFRI 2011 Symposium participants are invited to attend the round table discussions on Thursday the 30th of June afternoon, and to participate in the following question period.

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The international research infrastructure initiative SIOS (www.sios-svalbard.org) aims at building up a comprehensive regional-scale Arctic System observation platform which can provide both Earth System modelers and other communities interested in changes in the Arctic with continuous quality-assessed data ranging from the deep sea to the ionosphere. In October 2010, the 3-year SIOS preparatory phase project was started; this project will establish the formal and financial framework needed for the operation of the future research infrastructure. In parallel, a gap analysis of existing and needed new infrastructure is entering is final phase; the final report of this process will be completed by summer 2011.

At the meeting on 30th June, we will briefly present the SIOS initiative and present the WP9 “International cooperation and Integration”. One of the tasks of this WP9 is devoted to identifying possible synergies and mutual benefits between SIOS and other ESFRI or other large scale infrastructure projects active in the Arctic, and to establish close links via coordinated observations, methodologies and standards. These topics will be discussed during the meeting.