Projects - ESONET
ESONET Network of Excellence
ESONET is short for European Seafloor Observatory Network. Objective of this EU funded project is to create a network of research institutions and businesses experienced in deep sea research and long-term data monitoring. From 2007 to 2011, the following issues of scientific relevance will be explored:
Which data is especially important to science, where and how is it best measured? Which infrastructure is already in place? Which technologies are available? 50 research groups from all over Europe will be working on finding answers to these questions. The EU is supporting them with 7 million Euros in funding. Up to now, 12 sites in European coastal waters have been chosen as locations for seafloor observatories, based on their unique geological, biological and oceanographic properties. Key research areas include causes and results of climate change, seaquakes and their effects as well as biogeochemical processes and their effects on the marine ecosystem.
Within the ESONET network, European research groups are currently teaming up to conduct demonstration missions. Plans are that once the seafloor observatories are in operation, researchers and others interested in the matter will be able to access the data over the Internet at any time.
Contact info:
C. Waldmann (MARUM), R. Peinert (KDM), A. Boetius (MPI Bremen), M. Diepenbroek (MARUM), M. Klages (AWI), O. Pfannkuche (IFM-GEOMAR), L. Thomsen (IUB), M. Visbeck (IFM-GEOMAR)
News
02.02.2012
Verleihung des Briese-Preises für Meeresforschung 2011 am Leibniz-Institut für Ostseeforschung Warnemünde weiter
23.01.2012
Unsere Blaue Zukunft Das Konsortium Deutsche Meeresforschung informiert Europa-Politiker mit einer Veranstaltung in Brüssel am 24.1.2012 weiter
28.11.2011
Die Leibniz-Gemeinschaft hat Frau Prof. Dr. Hildegard Westphal, Direktorin des Leibniz-Zentrums für Marine Tropenökologie, als dritte Vizepräsidentin gewählt Wir gratulieren! weiter
18.10.2011
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Bathmann took over as Director of the Leibniz Institute for
Baltic Sea Research in Warnemünde (IOW). Polar scientist takes charge at the IOW weiter
11.05.2011
KDM publishes brochure on Ocean Observatories in the Atlantic-Arctic Ocean weiter
06.02.2011
KDM lunch briefing in the European Parliament on 2.2.2011 on „Sustainable use and development of marine resources".
- KDM launches initiative for an ocean-oriented Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC) at the European Instititute for Innovation and Technoloy (EIT) -
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05.01.2010
Opening of the new KDM Office in Brussels on 13 January weiter
