Node and junction box services and interfaces for a local sea bottom observatory

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Report on opportunities and applications of unmanned observatories for usage across RIs

Unmanned vehicles (UVs) are mobile platforms that can be either piloted remotely, either move autonomously using certain degrees of onboard/online intelligence. These kinds of platforms are progressively getting cheaper and accessible and they are penetrating more and more also in the world of scientific research. UVs in fact allow to investigate areas that are hardly accessible (or hazardous) for human researcher, and they are especially relevant for atmospheric, biosphere and marine domains since they allow spatialized sampling in terms of vertical profiles, horizontal transects or a combination of both. Unfortunately, the legislation regulating the usage of these kind of platforms are not moving as fast as their technical development and their spreading in the scientific world. This results in legislation that are often different across different European countries and therefore make transnational research quite difficult: it is often impossible to deploy a platform in a different country without serious legal risks. For UVs research a shared observatory between countries and RIs would be a major boon, allowing to transfer payloads and joint research campaigns between RIs in full compliance with each country own regulations. The aim of this deliverable is threefold: 1. Describe the situation of the usage of UVs in the Atmosphere/Biosphere and Marine domains 2. Describe the main normative constraints acting on the deployment of UVs in the various domains 3. Detail guidelines that can be adopted to create a transnational shared observatory for UVs in researc

Report on the use of energy units in extreme environments

The ENVRI community (Environmental and Earth System Research Infrastructures) covers multiple scientific domains, such as oceanography, atmosphere, geophysics and biology. Whilst very different in terms of scope and technology, the research infrastructures and their personnel face common technical challenges related to the fact that field equipment is often installed in remote sites. Specifically, a large proportion of field equipment needs to be autonomous and sometimes operates in extreme conditions. Theme 1, “Technical innovation”, aims to provide and improve the technology used by environmental RIs by developing internal cooperation synergy and by collaborating with the industries that propose solutions for RIs. WP3, “Improving measurement networks: common technological solutions”, is focused on energy issues (WP3.1: Enhancing observation capacity in remote sites: improving energy production) and data transmission (WP3.3: Robust data provision: data transmission and near real time QC) in extreme environments (WP3.2: Testing robustness towards extreme conditions). This report deals with the work for WP3.1, which was conducted between 2015 and 2018, as a collaborative project involving CNRS EPOS, ANAEE and ACTRIS. The main questions for Task 3.1 were: - What is needed to provide energy to isolated scientific stations? - What are the most sustainable technical solutions regarding the specific needs of RIs? - What do RIs actually use? - How to improve RI use of these systems? The report gathers information on energy production and storage using land-based instruments. It contains advice for potential non-specialist users, with technical abstracts and data sheets on each technology. The report is the main outcome of Task 3.1, and is attached as ANNEX I. This deliverable has also benefitted from interaction with other ENVRI+ partners, and IFREMER’s contribution concerning energy solutions in marine environments, which can be found in ANNEX II. The report in ANNEX I is composed of five main chapters

Node and junction box services and interfaces for a local sea bottom observatory

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Tempo-Mini: A Custom-designed instrument for real-time monitpring of hydrothermal vent ecosystems

TEMPO-Mini is a new custom-designed instrument package created by IFREMER for real-time monitoring of hydrothermal faunal assemblages.Peer Reviewe

Tempo-Mini: A Custom-designed instrument for real-time monitpring of hydrothermal vent ecosystems

TEMPO-Mini is a new custom-designed instrument package created by IFREMER for real-time monitoring of hydrothermal faunal assemblages

Tempo-Mini: A Custom-designed instrument for real-time monitpring of hydrothermal vent ecosystems

TEMPO-Mini is a new custom-designed instrument package created by IFREMER for real-time monitoring of hydrothermal faunal assemblages.Peer Reviewe