NAUTILOS - New Approach to Underwater Technologies for Innovative, Low-cost Ocean obServation (DIT.AD019.114)
Thematic area
Engineering, ICT and technologies for energy and transportation
Project area
Tecnologie Marittime (DIT.AD019)Structure responsible for the research project
Institute of information science and technologies "Alessandro Faedo" (ISTI)
Other structures collaborating in the research project
- Marine science institute (ISMAR)
- Istituto per le Risorse Biologiche e le Biotecnologie Marine (IRBIM)
Project manager
GABRIELE PIERI
Phone number: +39 050 621 3120
Email: gabriele.pieri@isti.cnr.it
Abstract
NAUTILOS will fill in existing marine observation and modelling gaps through the development of 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, to improve our understanding of environmental change and anthropogenic impacts related to aquaculture, fisheries, and marine litter. Newly developed marine technologies will be integrated with different observing platforms and deployed through the use of novel approaches in a broad range of key environmental settings (e.g. from shore to deep-sea deployments) and EU policy-relevant applications: - Fisheries & Aquaculture Observing Systems, - Platforms of Opportunity demonstrations, - Augmented Observing Systems demonstration, - Demonstrations on ARGO Platform, - Animal-borne Instruments. The fundamental aim of the project will be to complement and expand current European observation tools and services, to obtain a collection of data at a much higher spatial resolution and temporal regularity and length than currently available
Start date of activity
01/10/2020
Keywords
essential ocean variables, ocean observations, marine services, exploitation, management, policy, sensors, samplers, fisheries, climate, ecosystems, ocean modeling, data management, microplastics
Last update: 19/04/2024