Fixed Platforms - EuroGOOS

Fixed platforms are located in various areas of the European seas, to carry out a large variety of measurements. The EuroGOOS Fixed Platforms Task Team aims at integrating the European fixed point observatories, both in the open and coastal ocean. As all EuroGOOS Task Teams, this activity is an important building block towards an integrated end-to-end European Ocean Observing System, EOOS.

The Task Team reports to EuroGOOS Executive Board and General Assembly.

The EuroGOOS Fixed Platform Task Team aims to:

Develop Europe’s Fixed Platform network and assist in the standardization of operations by sharing best practices, also in keeping with other relevant programmes at global level (such as OOI, ONC, IMOS, DONET).
Contribute to the development of the European Ocean Observing System (EOOS).
Ensure the integration of Fixed Platforms in open and coastal ocean.
Provide European input to the OceanSites community and other relevant initiatives.
Enhance the number of biogeochemical measurements in European seas.
Ensure data availability via the EuroGOOS ROOS data portals and hence to CMEMS and EMODnet.
Deliver recommendations on data structure, format, and dissemination (interoperability of datasets) and quality control procedures.
Foster the co-operation with Research Vessel operators in terms of existing networks, projects, and other relevant coordination initiatives with large and well-equipped facilities (e.g., ERVO, OFEG and EurofleetsPlus project).
Establish a link with DBCP (Data Buoy Cooperation Panel) and E-SURFMAR in order to coordinate activities and best practices.
Link with EuroGOOS ROOSes, Working Groups and Task Teams and relevant ongoing programmes/projects (e.g., CMEMS INSTAC, EMODnet, JERICO-RI, etc.) and Research Infrastructures (such as EMSO ERIC) to avoid duplication of efforts.

List of Members

Co-chairs

Marcello Magaldi, National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy

Members

Adam Gauci, University of Malta (UM), Malta
Agnieszka Beszczynska-Möller, Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences (IOPAN), Poland
Andrew Gates, National Oceanography Centre (NOC), UK
Angelika Renner, Institute of Marine Research (IMR), Norway
Anne-Marie Fitzgerald, Irish Meteorological Service (Met Éireann), Ireland
Anthony Ouba, Cyprus Marine and Maritime Institute (CMMI), Cyprus
Arianna Orasi, Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), Italy
Branko Čermelj, National Institute of Biology (NIB), Slovenia
Carl Johan Andersson, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), Sweden
Conall O’Malley, Marine Institute (MI), Ireland
Daniel Hayes, Cyprus Marine and Maritime Institute (CMMI), Cyprus
Dijana Klaric, Croatian Meteorological and Hydrological Service (DHMZ), Croatia
Giuditta Marinaro, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Italy
Francesco De Leo, Università di Genova (UniGe), Italy
Holger Brix, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon (HEREON), Germany
Ivan Manso, Fundación AZTI, Spain
Jitze P. van der Meulen, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), Netherlands
Kai Herklotz, Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH), Germany
Laurent Coppola, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France
Marcello Magaldi, National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Italy
Marta de Alfonso Alonso-Muñoyerro, Puertos del Estado (PdE), Spain
Michael Fettweis, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), OD NATURE, Belgium
Michel Repecaud, French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER), France
Mustafa Yücel, Institute of Marine Sciences, Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey
Nikolas Flourentzou, Cyprus Marine and Maritime Institute (CMMI), Cyprus
Nuno Zacarias, Hydrographic Institute (IH), Portugal
Paris Pagonis, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), Greece
Pieter Gurdebeke, Agency for Maritime and Coastal Services (MDK), Coastal Division, Belgium
Raquel Somavilla, Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO), Spain
Sebastiano D’Amico, University of Malta (UM), Malta
Simo Cusi, European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and Water Column Observatory (EMSO ERIC)
Sólveig Rósa Ólafsdóttir, Marine and Freshwater Research Institute (HAFRO), Iceland
Urmas Lips, Tallinn University of Technology, Marine Systems Institute (MSI), Estonia
Vanessa Cardin, National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics (OGS), Italy
Vlad Radulescu, National Institute of Marine Geology and Geoecology (GEOECOMAR), Romania
Zacharias Siokouros, Cyprus Marine and Maritime Institute (CMMI), Cyprus