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August 2009: EuroSITES partners CNRS deployed the DYFAMED mooring in the NW Ligurian Sea

July 2009: Cruise to the PAP observatory, NE Atlantic: moorings and the mesopelagic
NERC-NOCS and CNRS participants joined the RRS Discovery (D341) on a 5 week process cruise to the Porcupine Abyssal Plain (PAP) site, NE Atlantic. To see the cruise diaries and onboard activities visit the EuroSITES Outreach pages or ClassRoom at Sea pages

July 2009: Arctic, oxygen dynamics on Polarstern
As part of the HYPOX FP7 project, AWI scientists (Michael Klages et al) are currently onboard the Polarstern at the Hausgarten site, Fram Strait. In situ chamber incubations and O2 optodes on moorings will be deployed as well as flux measurements in retrieved cores will contribute to oxygen consumption parameters in the water column and sediments. This work also contributes to ESONET (FP6 NoE) and HERMIONE (FP7) [HYPOX is a FP7 project focusing on oxygen dynamics and fluxes in coastal and open ocean to contribute to assessing the status of ocean hypoxia. Web site: www.hypox.net] The first cruise diary is available as a pdf here. and the second here. and the third and final report here.

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.