5-7 Oct.2009All Regions Workshop #2 Celtnet Fiona Grant Marine Institute

5-7 Oct.2009All Regions Workshop #2 Scientific focus Highly ecologically diverse and economically important zone. Water range depths range from 150 m to 4500m over relatively short distance Geo-morphological diversity Important hydrocarbon production zones. Important hub of global shipping Fishing – nurseries, breeding grounds and spawning site Reef-forming deep-sea corals like Lophelia Pertusa Original Celtnet designed to study carbonate mounds and coral reef systems of the Belgica Mounds, sponge ecosystem of the Phaeronema Belt up to Hovland Carbonate Mound, Goban Spur and various canyon systems as well as PAP site.

5-7 Oct.2009All Regions Workshop #2 Scientific focus DeepFishMan – Management and Monitoring of Deep-Sea Fisheries and Stocks – Leonie Dransfield (IMI) CoralFISH – Interaction between corals, fish and fisheries – Anthony Grehan (NUIG) Hermione – Hotspot Ecosystem Research – Anthony Grehan (NUIG) & Andy Wheeler (UCC) MESMA – Monitoring and Evaluation of Spatially Managed Areas – Gerry Sutton – (CMRC) MyOcean – Techworks Marine Ltd EuroFleets – Alliance of European Research Fleets (IMI)

5-7 Oct.2009All Regions Workshop #2 Scientific focus Significant NDP investment in BioDiscovery project linked to bioprospecting offshore Ireland SAC areas coral mounds – National Parks and Wildlife Service tasked with monitoring offshore SACs as part of Marine Strategy Directive One cruise this year, hope that this will continue Preliminary discussions with oil companies who have licences in the area. No statutory obligation at the moment to monitor to the degree envisaged by ESONET. INSS – substantial high-res mapping of wide areas of Irish EEZ

5-7 Oct.2009All Regions Workshop #2 Scientific focus Norwegian Margin Porcupine Ligurian Sea Eastern Mediterranean The Porcupine node is one of 4 common regions Shared between ESONET and EuroSITES

5-7 Oct.2009All Regions Workshop #2 Within the Porcupine node, the PAP site is an established time-series site with over 20 years of repeat sampling and with a fixed-point mooring in place since 2002.

5-7 Oct.2009All Regions Workshop #2 NERC-NOCS, UK coordinate the PAP time-series with National funding as part of the NERC Oceans2025 Theme 10: Sustained Observations PAP is also one of 9 key time-series sites in the EuroSITES FP7 project, part of the international OceanSITES network Porcupine node Funding

5-7 Oct.2009All Regions Workshop #2 Multidisciplinary time-series Vertical coverage: Surface to seafloor *Physical (e.g. T, S, currents) Biogeochemical and ecosystem variables (e.g. *Nutrients, *chl-a, * O 2, *CO 2, Particle flux) Seafloor - Benthic biology *Real-time telemetry as a data provider to OceanSITES, MyOcean

5-7 Oct.2009All Regions Workshop #2 Multidisciplinary time-series Vertical coverage: Surface to seafloor Science topics -Carbon cycling (upper ocean carbon variables and particle flux) - Benthic fauna as indicators or climate change (time- lapse photography, MODOO) : MODOO collaboration

5-7 Oct.2009All Regions Workshop #2 SmartBay SmartBay Galway is a test and demonstration platform. At second stage of evaluation process €10m for construction and 5 years OPEX May provide some scope for “regional services” envisaged by Celtnet Smart Economy, green technologies, innovation, multinationals R&D facilities

5-7 Oct.2009All Regions Workshop #2 ESFRI Roadmap In discussions at national level about ranking of projects on the ESFRI Roadmap At the moment, ESONET/EMSO have “A” rating – along with 3-4 other projects No financial commitment for any projects yet Testing application for ERIC over coming months for Euro Argo

5-7 Oct.2009All Regions Workshop #2 Acknowledgements Mick Gillooly – Director OSS Kate Larkin and Henry Ruhl - NOC MODOO consortium Esonet NoE members thank the EC for the FP6 contract # signed in Mar. 2007, as part of the EC Global Change and Ecosystems priority