EMSO Strategic Workshop

Draft Agenda

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12 March 2025 

Time Session/Topic
09:00-09:30 Welcome & Introduction to the Workshop Day 2

Ingrid Puillat, EMSO ERIC Director General

 

Technological challenges for a significant improvement in coverage and resolution in Global Ocean Observing Systems

Juan Jose Dañobeitia Canales, Prof. Marine Geophysics/ Head of International & Antarctic
Relations, UTM-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain

 
Morning session Technology strategy (Part 1) 

Chair: Laurent Delauney, Ifremer, JERICO coordinator
09:30-10:30 Logistic and Engineering 

 

● Inventory on the EMSO capability (e.g.: O2, video cameras, DAS, and acoustics)

Alfredo Martins, INESCTEC

 

● EGIM next steps

Nadine Lantéri, Ifremer

 

● Service for Physical Access

Joaquin del Rio, UPC

 

● Needs of calibration facilities, best practices 

Beatrice Tomasi, NORCE

 

General Discussion on Future generation of sensors (IoT)
10:30-11:00  Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 Keynote Speech 

“Submarine telecommunication cables and scientific opportunities in Europe”

Eckhard Bruckschen, CTO of IOEMA Fibre Ltd., and Antoine Queval, ASN
11:30-12:30 Logistic and Engineering 

 

● Submarine cables

Giuditta Marinaro, INGV

 

● Mobile Automated Systems (MAS) and resident systems

Alfredo Martins, INESCTEC

Jérome Blandin, Ifremer

 

General Discussion 
12:30-13:30 Lunch Break
Afternoon session Technology strategy (Part 2) 

Chair: Yann Hervé de Roeck, Director General of Euro-Argo
13:00-14:00 Keynote Speech

“The European marine data management landscape and marine knowledge value chain”

Dick M.A. Schaap, Managing director of MARIS
14:00-15:30 Data Management

● Data and Metadata flow
● Inclusion of calibration information and uncertainties in metadata
● QA and QC procedures
● Big data flow: Video image processing, Acoustic data processing
● EMSO Digital Infrastructure and Components

General Discussion 
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
Afternoon session Technology strategy (Part 3) 

Chair: Alfredo Martins, INESC TEC
16:00-17:30 Round table on Collaboration with the private sector

Giorgio Cacopardo (SEA Srl), Vincenzo Mauro (Macartney), Giancarlo Cristofalo (FUGRO), Cristobal Molina (NorTek), Didier Chlec’h (RBR France), Marián Jusko (Nanometrics), Neil Watkiss (Guralp)

Discussion
17:30-18:00 Conclusion of Day 2
18:00-19:00 Restricted meeting for debriefing and preparation of next sessions