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June 2009:

EuroSITES participant Kate Larkin (NOCS) and Oversight Committee member Marion Gehlen (LSCE) attended the first workshop of VISO (Virtual Institute of Scientific Users of Deep Sea Observatories) an intitative of ESONET NoE and ESONET, hosted by Universitetet I TromsØ. Participants attended from academia and industry. More details at: http://www.oceanobservatory.com/news/viso

May 2009:

EuroSITES showcased together with projects ESONET, EMSO, TENATSO, HERMIONE, CoralFISH and ACOBAR at a Sustainable Development conference hosted by the EC in Brussels, 26-28th May.

North Atlantic field work at PAP and CIS: In May 2009 EuroSITES science missions included the redeployments of full-depth multidisciplinary moorings in the NE Atlantic at the PAP sustained observatory site (led by co-ordinators NOCS) and also at the CIS site in the Irminger Basin (led by IFM-GEOMAR). Many enhancements were made and real-time data can be viewed in the Data section of this website!

Seafloor observatory is deployed off Patras
In May 2009 EuroSITES partners NOCS, HCMR and IFM-GEOMAR deployed a new seabed observatory in the Gulf of Patras (at 35 m depth), Eastern Ionian Sea, Greece. This was deployed on an active pockmark with the aim to monitor the effect of earthquakes on subsurface fluid migration. Sensors on the observatory will record earthquakes and measure fluid flow from the seabed in order to investigate how these earthquakes influence the pore pressure in the seabed sediments. This is a 5 month demonstration with longer-term missions planned in the future.

April 2009:

EuroSITES Annual Meeting, Mindelo, São Vicente, Cape Verde, 2nd-3rd April 2009. EuroSITES kicked off its second year in style with an Annual meeting hosted by partners INDP in São Vicente, Cape Verde, home to the newest observatory in the network; TENATSO. Over 30 Consortium and Oversight Committee members attended and the status of the network from science to data management and outreach was discussed.