EMSO: A Distributed Infrastructure for Addressing Geohazards and Global Ocean Change

Mairi Best (1) , Paolo Favali (1) , Laura Beranzoli (1) , M. Cannat (2) , N. Cagatay (3) , J. Dañobeitia (4) , E Delory , H de Stigter , B Ferré , M. Gillooly (5) , F Grant , P O J Hall , V. Lykousis (6) , J. Mienert (7) , J M A de Miranda , G. Oaie (8) , V Radulescu , J.-F Rolin , H Ruhl , C. Waldmann (9)

1 EMSO - European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water column Observatory
2 IPGP - Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
3 GEOLOGY AND MINING DEPARTMENT - ITU
4 UTM - Unitat de Tecnologia Marina
5 Marine Institute [Oranmore]
6 Institute of Oceanography
7 UiT - The Arctic University of Norway [Tromsø, Norway]
8 National Institute of Marine Geology and Geoecology (Romania)
9 MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences [Bremen]

The European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water-column Observatory (EMSO; http://www.emso-eu.org) is addressing the next challenge in Earth-oceanscience: how to coordinate data acquisition, analysis, archiving, access, and response to geohazards across provincial, national, regional, and international boundaries. Such coordination is needed to optimize the use of current and planned ocean observatory systems to (1) address national and regional public safety concerns about geohazards (e.g., earthquakes, submarine landslides, tsunamis) and (2) permit broadening of their scope toward monitoring environmental change on global ocean scales.

Domains: Oceanography

Mairi Best, Paolo Favali, Laura Beranzoli, M. Cannat, N. Cagatay, et al.. EMSO: A Distributed Infrastructure for Addressing Geohazards and Global Ocean Change. Oceanography, 2014, 27 (2), pp.167-169. ⟨10.5670/oceanog.2014.52⟩. ⟨insu-02177135⟩