European Multidisciplinary and Water-Column Observatory - European Research Infrastructure Consortium (EMSO ERIC): Challenges and opportunities for Strategic European Marine Sciences
EMSO (European Multidisciplinary
Seafloor and water-column Observatory,
www.emso-eu.org) is a large-scale European
Research Infrastructure I. It is a distributed
infrastructure of strategically placed, deep-sea
seafloor and water column observatory nodes
with the essential scientific objective of real-time,
long-term observation of environmental processes
related to the interaction between the geosphere,
biosphere, and hydrosphere. The geographic
locations of the EMSO observatory nodes
represent key sites in European waters, from the
Arctic, through the Atlantic and Mediterranean,
to the Black Sea (Figure 1), as defined through
previous studies performed in FP6 and FP7 EC
projects such as ESONET-CA, ESONET-NoE,
EMSO-PP (Person et al., 2015).Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version