1. I
EMSO European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water-column Observatory Paolo Favali on behalf of EMSO Consortium

2. Outline
Current status
Challenges
Perspectives

3. Current status

4. EMSO, an ESFRI Research Infrastructure
EMSO, a Research Infrastructure of the ESFRI Roadmap,
is the European network of fixed seafloor and water column observatories constituting a distributed infrastructure for long-term monitoring of environmental processes

5. EMSO test sites
EMSO nodes
Koljö Fjord
SmartBay
Molènes
OBSEA

6. International dimension
NEPTUNE Canada
DONET Japan
IMOS Australia
MACHO Taiwan
ECSSOS China
OOI United States

7. EMSO contribution to GEO
Global Ocean Observing
System
Land observation systems
EMSO
GEOSS
Integration in GEOSS

8. EMSO Governance EMSO-ERIC will have:
Central co-ordination (statutory seat with central management)
Regional Teams (in charge of the EMSO nodes)
Assembly of Members: highest level decision body composed by Representatives of the Countries

9. Steps towards EMSO-ERIC
Italian Ministry Letter sent to the Funding Agencies
DONE
MoU Signature process
IN PROGRESS
Interim Office establishment
ERIC Application submission
NEXT
ERIC Application review process
ERIC APPROVAL
Signatory Countries:
Italy, UK, Portugal, Romania, Greece, The Netherlands, Ireland, France, Germany, Spain
Foreseen:
Norway, Turkey
Postponed:
Sweden

10. Timeline September 2012: end of EMSO-PP operation of Interim Office
October 2012-March 2013: signature of EMSO-ERIC MoU
March 2013: preliminary presentation of EMSO-ERIC application
Mid 2013: review of the application
September-December 2013: Approval and Start of the EMSO-ERIC
December 2013: Set-up and operation of the Central Management Office
September 2016: 3-Year Review process

11. Challenges

12. Challenges
The main challenges of EMSO is ensuring distributed observations that are:
Long-term
Sustained
Multidisciplinary
Real-time (or near-real-time)
Available to users worldwide
(OPEN ACCESS to scientists and other stakeholders)

13. Challenges
EMSO-ERIC starts with the operation of existing observatory infrastructures and shallow water test/demonstration sites
We can list the following 3 main challenges:
Synchronisation of the national funding schemes
Firm financial commitment to ensure long-term operation
(> 10 years)
Coordination of logistic interventions to save costs

14. Secured funding so far available in-cash contribution (M€)
available in-cash contribution (M€)
Explanatory notes
EXPECTED PARTICIPATION IN THE ERIC
ITALY
6.0
Dedicated Funds to EMSO from Research Ministry for the period
Full Member
FRANCE
2.7/y
Yearly dedicated funds from Research Ministry to IFREMER and CNRS for the Large Research Infrastructure EMSO
GERMANY
1.5/y as in kind contribution
Ship time, ROV and AUV deployments, and deep sea drilling missions where current spending is about 1.5 M/y for Hausgarten and Svalbard science missions
GREECE
3.7
3.7M€. Implementation of EMSO-Hellenic ( )
0.125 M€. Scoping study of EMSO-Hellas ( )
Indirect funding to EMSO: 0.5 ME€ for maintenance and annual servicing Poseidon system (including ship time) ( ) UK
1.8/y
Current spending for PAP-SO is 1.8M€/year. As much as 17 M€ for CAPEX will be requested when ERIC is formed
ROMANIA
6.7
MARINE GEO-HAZARD Project
First Observer
Then Full Member
SPAIN
4.5/y
Canary Island (PLOCAN consortium - Plataforma Oceánica de Canarias)
Yearly budget
IRELAND -
There is no dedicated ERIC funding for any of the ESFRI projects available at national level. However, national funding calls are issued on a periodic basis and will be targeted when membership of the EMSO ERIC is sought.
Observer
TURKEY
1.5
"Marmara Sea Bottom Observatory (MSBO) project of KOERI" funded by Turkish Telecom
THE NETHERLAND
NIOZ is active with in-house money and due to COST Action PERGAMON offshore Svalbard
NORWAY
The project COSMOS is planned to be re-submitted to the Norwegian Research Council. If accepted, Norwegian commitment might therefore change from observer to full member
Observer or Full Member
PORTUGAL
Funding will likely come from a new institute being created now called "Instituto Portugues do Mar e da Atmosfera" that will manage everything related with Geophysics
Meteorology and Marine research
If funding to the institute is confirmed full member
SWEDEN
Small national community. Decision will be postponed

15. Perspectives

16. Perspectives Milestones by mid-2015
Signature of the MoU ensuring the required critical mass for the ERIC
(beginning 2013)
Establishment of EMSO-ERIC (end 2013)
Start-up of Central Management Office (beginning 2014)
Set-up of a Data Management infrastructure (mid 2014)
Set-up of Regional Teams (mid 2014)
Construction/extension of at least 5 EMSO sites (within mid 2015)
The 5 most important milestones in the first two years after construction / operation start
EMSO-ERIC review process successfully achieved (mid 2016)
Full operation of the sites
Secure funding for long-term operation
Start construction/operation of 3 other sites
Real-time, single entry point data access established

17. Phased implementation
A phased implementation will characterise
the extension, construction and operation of the EMSO sites
PHASE 1
(5 years from 2013)
EMSO-ERIC foundation: establishment of the Central Management Office and set-up of the Governance
Construction and/or upgrading of EMSO sites: 7 sites (Arctic, Porcupine, Azores, PLOCAN, Eastern Sicily, Hellenic, Ligurian Sea) will be those to start their implementation from year 1
Setting up of a distributed data management system that will guarantee an open access to EMSO observatories data to scientists and other stakeholders
PHASE 2
(starting upon review at year 3)
The extension and upgrading of the remaining sites will start (Black Sea, Marmara Sea, Iberian Margin, Norwegian Margin)
A possible scenario would be that some of these sites will start implementation also during PHASE 1

18. Fixo3 SIOS COOPEUS Links with projects among major related
Synergies with other European infrastructures
Links with projects among major related
EMSO complements:
EUROARGO as the Eulerian counterpart
KM3NeT with respect to associate sciences
SIOS as the marine component
EPOS for marine and land data integration
ICOS for marine data
EUROFLEETS for the optimal share of ship resources
SIOS
COOPEUS
Fixo3

19. User community
Several EU projects funded to implement links among scientific community
Network of Excellence ESONET (European Seas Observatory NETwork) with 400 stakeholders in FP6
ESONET-Vi will regroup the EMSO users
Estimation of users: 3000 in Europe and worldwide
Italy
France
Germany
Ireland
Spain
Sweden
Greece UK
Norway
Portugal
Turkey
The Netherlands
TOTAL
Estimation of users
500
200
300
100
350
150 50
2650