EMECO: Monitoring Platforms

Monitoring Platforms

SmartBuoy: SmartBuoy is an automated, stationary, in situ marine monitoring system that measures at high frequency biological, chemical and physical variables.
SmartBuoy
WaveNet: WaveNet is a wave monitoring network that provides a single source of real-time wave data from in situ wave measuring buoys.
WaveNet
FerryBox: FerryBox systems are operated on ferries and other ships of opportunity and contain automated sensors and samplers for measuring biological, chemical, and physical variables.
FerryBox
Satellites: Satellites carrying remote sensors monitor the world's oceans, providing data on sea surface temperature, chlorophyll concentrations, and suspended particulate matter. They also have many other applications, including monitoring changes in sea ice extent and mapping ocean habitiats.
Satellites
CPR: The Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) programme has been measuring the abundance, distribution, and species composition of phytoplankton and zooplankton in the North Atlantic and North Sea since 1931.
CPR

Scientists revamp open ocean observatory: The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and the UK Met Office have joined forces to revamp the Porcupine Abyssal Plain Sustained Observatory (PAP-SO) in the northeast Atlantic.
ODAS buoy fit out and deployment with Cefas Payload: A combined effort from staff at Cefas and the Marine Institute are temporarily re-fitting a spareODAS (UK Met designed Ocean data Acquisition System) deep field weather buoy to carry an alternative payload to go on trial at the M1 location.
New Western Shelf Observatory Launched: The Western Shelf domain encompasses the Western UK and Irish shelf and its adjacent sea areas and catchments.; More news & events »