Periodic Reporting for period 1 - Euro GO-SHIP (Euro GO-SHIP: developing a Research Infrastructure concept to support European hydrography)
Periodo di rendicontazione: 2022-12-01 al 2023-11-30
The ocean delivers many services to humanity but our activities generate societal hazards and challenges. For example, sea level rise driven by warming, eutrophication associated with Harmful Algal Blooms, and/or deoxygenation and CO2 driven ocean acidification that affects fisheries and marine biodiversity. Data-driven ocean management helps to maximise the benefits we derive from the ocean and minimise our impact upon it. This is a key to delivering the ambitions of the European Green Deal.
Hydrography provides much of the data required to successfully manage our seas. It is the way we observe the ocean using instruments that are lowered through the ocean to capture water samples at multiple depths. As one of the oldest ways of working in the ocean, hydrography and remains the backbone of modern oceanography since direct sampling and analysis provides the highest quality observations and allows the largest range of parameters to be observed. These results provide high quality information for the assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and bring value to directive decision research such as that for the EUs Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD).
EuroGO-SHIP has the ambition to develop a concept for a Research Infrastructure to support all European hydrographic observations acknowledging the improvement and cost efficiencies that infrastructures offer to research communities. Despite the long history of shipboard hydrographic observations there is surprisingly little integration between the groups and nations that undertake these activities. EuroGO-SHIP addresses this gap and will enable the European community who make hydrographic observations at sea to provide a more comprehensive and higher quality dataset with known uncertainties that is accessible under FAIR data principles. This will ultimately deliver:
• More data as observational opportunities will not be missed because of lack of equipment or capability
• Higher quality observations delivered through shared facilities, training, and a system of best practice
• A data system that promotes data access and usability.
Hydrography provides much of the data required to successfully manage our seas. It is the way we observe the ocean using instruments that are lowered through the ocean to capture water samples at multiple depths. As one of the oldest ways of working in the ocean, hydrography and remains the backbone of modern oceanography since direct sampling and analysis provides the highest quality observations and allows the largest range of parameters to be observed. These results provide high quality information for the assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and bring value to directive decision research such as that for the EUs Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD).
EuroGO-SHIP has the ambition to develop a concept for a Research Infrastructure to support all European hydrographic observations acknowledging the improvement and cost efficiencies that infrastructures offer to research communities. Despite the long history of shipboard hydrographic observations there is surprisingly little integration between the groups and nations that undertake these activities. EuroGO-SHIP addresses this gap and will enable the European community who make hydrographic observations at sea to provide a more comprehensive and higher quality dataset with known uncertainties that is accessible under FAIR data principles. This will ultimately deliver:
• More data as observational opportunities will not be missed because of lack of equipment or capability
• Higher quality observations delivered through shared facilities, training, and a system of best practice
• A data system that promotes data access and usability.
WP2 has described the initial scope for new services and access opportunities (Task 2.1) for a EuroGO-SHIP RI, including an initial description of requirement, potential supply model and cost. Further details of the scope will be developed by parameter expert groups, including via consultation with data originators in WP4. We also delivered an updated version of quality control software for carbon measurements with improved functionality. Task 2.2 focuses on data curation and improving data management and access. The work on delayed mode data has focused on the description of an improved data, including implementation of a cruise identifier that will facilitate improved data flow. We also conducted an initial assessment of real-time data, focussing on providing operational data destinations (modelling centres). Task 2.2 also worked on the data pathway from shipboard Acoustic doppler current profiler (SADCP), ensuring compliance with SeaDataNet's FAIR policy. Advancing a framework for secondary data quality control (Task 2.3) began by adding simulated noise to observational data and recovering the noise signal.
We will provide endorsed best practices (Task 3.1) with a lifetime approach to include highest quality observations methods, as wells as data formats, data flow and uncertainty estimates. Task 3.2 develops our best practices utilising water samples that have been collected on cruises by partner institutes, and which are undergoing analysis at partner institutes.
WP4 builds the science case for EuroGO-SHIP. Evaluating the impact of EuroGO-SHIP on our ability to observe Europe´s coastlines and regional seas (Task 4.1) has progressed by selecting the reanalysis products and methods that we will use. WP4 also includes intensive interaction with stakeholders, including data originators (Task 4.2) governments and funding agencies (Task 4.3) and end-users (Task 4.4). Data originators were engaged at workshops and one-to-one meetings (ICES, MonGOOS, Black Sea), which reiterated the importance of our data curation work in Task 2.2 and EuroGO-SHIP's potential role in hydrographical advocacy. This has stimulated our development of success stories as accessible pen pictures of hydrography's importance. We have met with JPI Oceans and EOOS, which led to the inclusion of EuroGO-SHIP in the AMRIT (Advance Marine Research Infrastructures Together) consortium. Planning for interaction with funding agencies, and end users is advancing.
WP5 focusses on EuroGO-SHIP's place in the existing Marine RI landscape (Task 5.1) and developing a structure, governance and financial model for a future RI to support European hydrography (Task 5.2). Five consultations with Marine RIs took place in RP1, which identified various areas of future collaboration (ata curation, best practices and pan-European coordination), and a few areas of overlap (where another RI was already delivering a service relevant to EuroGO-SHIP). There was also a recognition of the value of the hydrography that would be supported by EuroGO-SHIP as the primary source of highest-quality calibration data for autonomous instruments and gold standard best practices for analyses. Most of the work in Task 5.2 will happen in RP2, but the coordinator has been encouraged by our advisory board to consider KPIs for a future RI; work that she has begun in consultation with the science committee.
We will provide endorsed best practices (Task 3.1) with a lifetime approach to include highest quality observations methods, as wells as data formats, data flow and uncertainty estimates. Task 3.2 develops our best practices utilising water samples that have been collected on cruises by partner institutes, and which are undergoing analysis at partner institutes.
WP4 builds the science case for EuroGO-SHIP. Evaluating the impact of EuroGO-SHIP on our ability to observe Europe´s coastlines and regional seas (Task 4.1) has progressed by selecting the reanalysis products and methods that we will use. WP4 also includes intensive interaction with stakeholders, including data originators (Task 4.2) governments and funding agencies (Task 4.3) and end-users (Task 4.4). Data originators were engaged at workshops and one-to-one meetings (ICES, MonGOOS, Black Sea), which reiterated the importance of our data curation work in Task 2.2 and EuroGO-SHIP's potential role in hydrographical advocacy. This has stimulated our development of success stories as accessible pen pictures of hydrography's importance. We have met with JPI Oceans and EOOS, which led to the inclusion of EuroGO-SHIP in the AMRIT (Advance Marine Research Infrastructures Together) consortium. Planning for interaction with funding agencies, and end users is advancing.
WP5 focusses on EuroGO-SHIP's place in the existing Marine RI landscape (Task 5.1) and developing a structure, governance and financial model for a future RI to support European hydrography (Task 5.2). Five consultations with Marine RIs took place in RP1, which identified various areas of future collaboration (ata curation, best practices and pan-European coordination), and a few areas of overlap (where another RI was already delivering a service relevant to EuroGO-SHIP). There was also a recognition of the value of the hydrography that would be supported by EuroGO-SHIP as the primary source of highest-quality calibration data for autonomous instruments and gold standard best practices for analyses. Most of the work in Task 5.2 will happen in RP2, but the coordinator has been encouraged by our advisory board to consider KPIs for a future RI; work that she has begun in consultation with the science committee.
We have consulted with the most relevant Marine RIs and data handling and coordination bodies to introduce EuroGO-SHIP and understand the landscape in which EuroGO-SHIP must exist. These consultations have highlighted areas of collaboration (data curation, best practices and pan-European coordination), some of which are being explored by the AMRIT consortium, in which EuroGO-SHIP is included and McDonagh leads a cluster of WPs.
We have described the initial scope for new services and access opportunities that make up part of the EuroGO-SHIP RI concept: training, access to facilities (including expertise, hardware, analysis facilities and reference materials relevant for European waters).
A focus on regional networks in our consultation with data originators is stimulating the inclusion of regional requirements in the EuroGO-SHIP RI concept. The modelling study to quantify the impact of improvements derived from a EuroGO-SHIP RI will have a multi-regional focus using CMEMS reanalysis products from 3 basins (Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, and Baltic Sea).
We have described the initial scope for new services and access opportunities that make up part of the EuroGO-SHIP RI concept: training, access to facilities (including expertise, hardware, analysis facilities and reference materials relevant for European waters).
A focus on regional networks in our consultation with data originators is stimulating the inclusion of regional requirements in the EuroGO-SHIP RI concept. The modelling study to quantify the impact of improvements derived from a EuroGO-SHIP RI will have a multi-regional focus using CMEMS reanalysis products from 3 basins (Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, and Baltic Sea).