1. EPOS Kick-off Meeting – INGV 24-25 November 2010, Roma EMSO European Multidisciplinary Seafloor Observatory Paolo Favali Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Italy http://www. emso-eu.org/

2. EPOS Kick-off Meeting – INGV 24-25 November 2010, Roma N GB IR S D F I P E NL GR TU EMSO European Multidisciplinary Seafloor Observatory EMSO EMSO is a Research Infrastructure of the ESFRI Roadmap It is a distributed infrastructure based on a European network of fixed seafloor and water column observatories Present state of implementation: EMSO Preparatory Phase Four-years project participated by 12 countries, started in April 2008 with the aim to design and create the legal entity in charge of the infrastructure

3. EPOS Kick-off Meeting – INGV 24-25 November 2010, Roma EMSO is A Marine Research Infrastructure: permanent, large- scale, deep-sea laboratory to observe and study Marine Ecosystems Climate Change Geo-Hazards Geo-Hazards

4. EPOS Kick-off Meeting – INGV 24-25 November 2010, Roma ESONET NoE The ongoing Demonstration Missions and S&T activities progress towards “permanent” installations Mainly: Geo-Hazards Climate change & Ecosystem Permanent installations LIDO-DM MARMARA-DM MODOO-DM LOOME-DM AOEM-DM MOMAR-DM EMSO The EMSO nodes are located in the ESONET key sites

5. EPOS Kick-off Meeting – INGV 24-25 November 2010, Roma SN4 location eastern part of the sea at the westernmost end of the fault rupture caused by the 1999 Izmit earthquake. Main goals: Relationship between Seismicity & Gas seepage Marmara Sea EC-ESONET-MARMARA-DM (exp. Sept’09-ongoing) Partners: Turkey, Italy, France

6. EPOS Kick-off Meeting – INGV 24-25 November 2010, Roma DEGASSING EVENTS: preliminary interpretation Apparently a “pulsation” of degassing by bubbles from the seafloor Number of CH 4 peaks: at least 70 Frequency > 1 peak every 2 days O2 (mM) T (°C) CH4 (mM)

7. EPOS Kick-off Meeting – INGV 24-25 November 2010, Roma Low frequency oscillations on horizontals at 18:40 (drop T & CH 4 peak) Monochromatic ~ 12 Hz at 14:09 for about 6 minutes (during methane peak) Filtered 10-14 Hz 2009-12-13 13:55:30 2009-11-02 18:41:30

8. EPOS Kick-off Meeting – INGV 24-25 November 2010, Roma Iberian Margin Acoustically linked observatory GEOSTA R Gulf of Cadiz 85 km off-shore 3200 m w.d. Portugal N-E Atlantic Main goals: Geo-Hazards & Bio-acoustics R/V Sarmiento de Gamboa MODUS GEOSTAR EC-NEAREST (exp. Aug.’07-Aug.’08) EC-ESONET-LIDO-DM (exp. Nov’09-ongoing) Partners: Portugal, Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Morocco

9. EPOS Kick-off Meeting – INGV 24-25 November 2010, Roma Epicentres 09/2007-08/2008 IM Lisbon

10. EPOS Kick-off Meeting – INGV 24-25 November 2010, Roma Example of pressure signal recorded during NEAREST mission (1cm H 2 O ~ 1mbar) 3 m 1 month 2 h 2 days 40 cm 2 cm

11. EMSO-PP Hearing - 23 rd November 2010, Brussels Shore Station NEMO JB 5 km > 2000 m w.d. 20 km Geo-hazard and bio-acoustic module Bio-acoustic module Web 2005 Real-time data transmission 2008Recovery for refurbishment 2010Re-deployment (ESONET-LIDO-DM) Western Ionian Sea (off Catania) Main goals: Geo-Hazards & Bio-acoustics, Test site for Neutrino Telescope ESFRI KM3NeT EMSO Synergy between the 2 ESFRI infrastructures: KM3NeT and EMSO ROV (operative 4000 m)

12. EPOS Kick-off Meeting – INGV 24-25 November 2010, Roma ab Z N E T Z N E T 200 s Off-shore Peloponnesus (Greece, Feb. 14, 2008): a) M W =6.9; b) M W =6.2 NEMO-SN1 real-time cabled observatory M w =8.6 off-shore Sumatra (March 28, 2005) Z N E Seismicity: examples of earthquakes recorded

13. EPOS Kick-off Meeting – INGV 24-25 November 2010, Roma ETNA Activity (recorded by SN1)

14. EMSO-PP Hearing - 23 rd November 2010, Brussels 85 km South East offshore Capo Passero, 3500-m depth (cable deployed 2007, junction box deployed 2009) 85 km South East offshore Capo Passero, 3500-m depth (cable deployed 2007, junction box deployed 2009) Shore Station in Capo Passero Harbour Western Ionian Sea : Capo Passero infrastructure Submarine cable 100 km - 20 fibres, DC-sea return Submarine Infrastructure DC/DC Converter 10 kV-375 V NEPTUNE-like design ROV connectors to end users

15. EPOS Kick-off Meeting – INGV 24-25 November 2010, Roma East-Sicily: CREEP undersea deformation lab Study of accelerations preceeding crustal failure 10 -6 10 -9 10 -22 10 -25 CREEP PI Phil Meredith, UCL (NERC 2010-2015)

16. EPOS Kick-off Meeting – INGV 24-25 November 2010, Roma INGV INGV - Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (Italy)Co-ordinator ITU ITU - Istanbul Teknik Universitesi (Turkey) IFREMER IFREMER - Institut Français de Recherche pour l’exploitation de la MER (France) UiT UiT - University of Tromsø (Norway) NOCS NOCS - National Oceanography Centre Southampton (United Kingdom) HCMR HCMR - Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (Greece) KDM KDM - Konsortium Deutsche Meeresforschung e.V. (Germany) IMI IMI - Irish Marine Institute (Ireland) NIOZ NIOZ - Stichting Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor Zeeonderzoek (The Netherlands) UGOT UGOT - Goteborgs Universitet (Sweden) UTM-CSIC - Unidad de Tecnologia Marina - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (Spain) FFCUL FFCUL - Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal) EMSO-Preparatory Phase Partnership

17. EPOS Kick-off Meeting – INGV 24-25 November 2010, Roma Governance structure ESONET-VISO COMMUNITY

18. EPOS Kick-off Meeting – INGV 24-25 November 2010, Roma The legal organisation/1 The ERIC is considered a suitable legal form by the funding agencies and the community (Strasbourg - Funding Agencies meeting, February 2010) EMSO-ERIC statutes already drafted, under review by the partners Environmental laws at each EMSO site already reviewed Legal work for the next months will cover: − Finalisation of EMSO-ERIC Statutes − Model agreements for sites with already-existing facilities − Model sites: Arctic/Norway, Porcupine Abyssal Plain, Sicily

19. EPOS Kick-off Meeting – INGV 24-25 November 2010, Roma The legal organisation/2 Next steps before the end of the Preparatory Phase: 1.MoU among Countries that have shown interest, while the EMSO-ERIC statutes is being finalised 2.Once 3 Member States Countries will ensure the financial commitment application for the EMSO-ERIC 3.Additional Countries will join subsequently

20. EPOS Kick-off Meeting – INGV 24-25 November 2010, Roma Statutory seat with central management Regional Departments (RDs) in charge of the EMSO nodes The RDs shall be either owned or not by the EMSO-ERIC (agreements needed) The management of the future infrastructure

21. EPOS Kick-off Meeting – INGV 24-25 November 2010, Roma Central Management EMSO-ERIC main tasks: –Define and deploy the scientific and financial strategy –Ensure the open access –Coordinate the scientific evaluation of experiments proposed by users –Ensure compliance with quality standard –Adopt technical standards –Ensure steady operation of observatories in order to provide the collection of long-term time series data –Manage, store and disseminate collected data –Organise cost efficient cooperation of personnel and technical means including sea operation

22. EPOS Kick-off Meeting – INGV 24-25 November 2010, Roma Regional Department Tasks Deploy observatories Ensure continuous operation (24h x 7d) Contacts with local authorities and stakeholders, local ships, etc… Provide assistance to users in implementing experiments Manage data flow Manage budget to implement the activities at the nodes

23. EPOS Kick-off Meeting – INGV 24-25 November 2010, Roma Interest Currently expressed by Member States EMSO is presently in the roadmap of the following Countries: –Italy, France, Germany, Ireland*, Spain, Sweden, Greece, UK, Norway –The Prime Ministry of Turkey State Planning Organization (DPT), acting as funding agency for research infrastructures, is considering EMSO as one of the projects to include in the roadmap for Turkey *EMSO has been designated in Ireland as an "A“ rating in terms of potential investment

24. EPOS Kick-off Meeting – INGV 24-25 November 2010, Roma 2011201020122016-20202013-2015 EMSO Timeline Upgrade and jointly managed initial sites

25. EPOS Kick-off Meeting – INGV 24-25 November 2010, Roma ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● EMSO NEPTUNE (Canada) DONET (Japan) MACHO (Taiwan) ● ● MARS (USA) VENUS (Canada) OOI (USA) ● Long-Term, Real-Time Cabled Observatories

26. EPOS Kick-off Meeting – INGV 24-25 November 2010, Roma International Advisory Board Tim Cowles OCEANLEADERSHIP/OOI Martin Taylor Ocean Networks Canada Yoshiyuki Kaneda JAMSTEC (DONET) Ingunn Nilssen StatOil-Hydro Emilio Migneco INFN - KM3NeT Coordinator Georg Heinrich Hansen NRC - SIOS Coordinator ESFRI representative to be indicated ESFRI TWG ENV Chair (Eeva Ikonen) ENV Chair (Eeva Ikonen) Heinz Olbers (as observer) European Investment Bank

27. EPOS Kick-off Meeting – INGV 24-25 November 2010, Roma Synergies with other initiatives EMSO is complementary to other initiatives such as: –EUROARGO as the Eulerian counterpart –KM3NeT with respect to associate sciences –SIOS as the marine component –EPOS for marine data –ICOS for marine data –EUROFLEETS –EUROSITES

28. EPOS Kick-off Meeting – INGV 24-25 November 2010, Roma  Promote joint plans for deployments (e.g., OBS)  Coordinate the activities and the implementation plans (e.g., inclusion of representatives in Advisory Boards, joint participation to experiments and campaigns)  Find opportunities for meeting and joint discussions  Promote common lobbying initiatives for future calls  Coordinate activities for fund rising EMSO/EPOS co-ordination

29. EPOS Kick-off Meeting – INGV 24-25 November 2010, Roma  Integrate and enhance the existing infrastructures  Expand the observations in critical, representative locations in particular environments  Develop a global system of multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary sustained observatory networks Vision

30. EPOS Kick-off Meeting – INGV 24-25 November 2010, Roma Arctic Norwegian Margin Nordic Sea Porcupine Abyssal Plain Azores Islands Iberian Margin Ligurian Sea Western Ionian Sea Hellenic Arc Black Sea Marmara Sea Thank you for your attention Paolo Favali EMSO-PP Co-ordinator emsopp@ingv.it http://www. emso-eu.org/