ANERIS

ANERIS aims at developing the next generation of scientific instrumentation tools and methods for sensing marine life. The design of the new instruments and methods will integrate different types of marine life-sensing technologies: genomics, imagingbiooptics and participatory sciences. The technologies will be implemented in a co-design framework, involving all the interested stakeholders: academia, industry, civil society and government. The project proposes the concept of Operational Marine Biology (OMB), understood as a biodiversity information system for systematic and long-term routine measurements of the ocean and coastal life, and their rapid interpretation and dissemination. The production of FAIR Operational Marine Biology data will be carried out in a distributed IT infrastructure built from edge and cloud compute nodes, to be connected with the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). The technologies will be tested and validated in different case studies, involving the ANERIS innovations, commercial instruments to be improved and different world-class research infrastructures (RI).

EMSO is involved together with the other three ERICs (LifeWatch, EMBRC, Euro-BioImaging) as well as large-scale IT infrastructures and frameworks (EGI, EOSC) in the development and validation. This ensures the uptake and implementation of the developed OMB technologies in the broad networks represented by these infrastructures and leverages their expert communities and connections. In two EMSO nodes, SmartBay and OBSEA, imaging flow cytometers will be deployed and in situ images will be obtained.