New technology improves our understanding of changes in the marine environment

Pieri G.; Ntoumas M.; Martinelli M.; Chatzinikolaou E.; Martins F.; Novellino A.; Dimitrova N.; Keller K.; King A.; Smerdon A.; Mazza M.; Malarde D.; Cocco M.; Torres A.; Triantafyllou G.; Sá S.; Bebianno M.; Kristiansen T.; Lusher A.;

The H2020 NAUTILOS project aims to fill in existing marine observation and modelling gaps, through new technologies and their deployment onto different observing platforms promoting innovative and cost-effective methods in a wide range of crucial environmental settings and EU policy-related applications.
NAUTILOS will develop a new generation of cost-effective sensors and samplers for physical (salinity, temperature), chemical (inorganic carbon, nutrients, oxygen), and biological (phytoplankton, zooplankton, marine mammals) essential ocean variables in addition to micro-/nano-plastics. These new technologies will be integrated with different observing platforms (e.g., platforms of opportunity, aquaculture plants, fixed stations, animal routes, AUVs etc.) and deployed through novel approaches in a broad range of key environmental settings (e.g., from shore to deep-sea deployments) and EU policy-relevant applications. The impact of the project will be assessed through numerical models. Data products will be made FAIR available to further European and international Ocean Data integrators. Synergies with relevant initiatives, Citizen Science campaigns and capacity building courses will be also organised in order to reach all relevant stakeholders and users.
The project will improve our understanding of environmental fluctuations and anthropogenic impacts connected with aquaculture, fisheries and marine litter. This will also complement and contribute to expanding European observation tools and services in order to obtain data collection at a much higher spatial resolution, temporal regularity and length than currently available at the European scale, and further democratise the marine environment’s monitoring to both traditional and non-traditional data users.

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EMODnet Open Conference, online, 14-16/06/2021

Keywords: Ocean observations, Sensors, Samplers, Ocean modelling, Data management

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The research activities of the Institute are carried out in the context of research, development and innovation projects, both national and international, based on regional funding programs (POR FEAMPA - Regional Operational Program of the European Maritime Affairs Fisheries Fund and Aquaculture and POR FESR - Regional Operational Program of the European Regional Development Fund) or ministerial (PRIN - Projects of relevant national interest, PNRA - National Research Program in Antarctica, PO FEAMPA - National Operational Program European Maritime Affairs Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund) , programs for European Territorial Cooperation (Interreg), direct funding programs of the European Commission (Horizon2020 and Horizon Europe, Life, JPI - Joint Programming Initiatives, ERA-NET Cofund) and thematic collaboration initiatives managed by international organizations such as, for example , the FAO - GFCM (General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean). The Institute also develops funded projects in the context of collaborations with private companies in the sectors of the blue economy as well as technology transfer and research results. Research projects, mainly of a collaborative nature, are developed through a wide network of partners that include major Italian and foreign research institutions and universities.

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