Project description
New technology improves our understanding of changes in the marine environment
Existing European observation tools and services have the potential to take advantage of cutting-edge technologies to obtain a wide range of data at a much higher spatial resolution and temporal regularity and duration. The EU-funded NAUTILOS project will develop a new generation of sensors and samplers for physical, chemical and biological essential ocean variables in addition to micro- and nanoplastics. The project will improve our understanding of environmental variations and anthropogenic impacts connected with aquaculture, fisheries and marine litter. NAUTILOS will integrate recently advanced marine technologies into different observing platforms and deploy them through innovative and cost-effective methods in a wide range of key environmental settings and EU policy-related applications. The project aims to complement and expand existing European observation instruments and services and further enable and democratise the monitoring of the marine environment for both traditional and non-traditional data users.
Objective
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 at the European scale, and to further enable and democratise the monitoring of the marine environment to both traditional and non-traditional data users. The principles that underlie the NAUTILOS project will be those of the development, integration, validation and demonstration of new cutting-edge technologies with regards to sensors, interoperability and embedding skills. The development will always be guided by the objectives of scalability, modularity, cost-effectiveness and open-source availability of software and data products produced. NAUTILOS will also provide full and open data feed towards well-established portals and data integrators (EMODnet, CMEMS, JERICO).
Fields of science
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesfisheries
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftware
- natural sciencesbiological scienceszoologymammalogycetology
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
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00185 Roma
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19013 Attikia Anavissos
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0579 Oslo
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00790 Helsinki
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29280 Plouzane
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75794 Paris
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16154 Genova
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57037 Portoferraio
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8005 139 Faro
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56700 Hennebont
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RG24 8SB Basingstoke
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24145 Kiel
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4470-017 Matosinhos
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2520-614 Peniche
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2800 Delemont
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2000 Neuchatel
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1000 Ljubljana
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1249 074 Lisboa
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67663 Kaiserslautern
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87036 Arcavacata Di Rende
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9901-862 Horta
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1000 Sofia
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