The first FixO3 call for TNA opened on the 15th of June and closed on the 31st of July 2014. Details about the call definition and selection criteria are described on this portal under TNA menu.
A total of 15 infrastructures included in FixO3 participated, of which:
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Fourteen ocean surface, water column and seafloor observatory installations and systems
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One shallow water test site (OBSEA) able to make practical and fast tests of instruments, systems, procedures and new technologies applicable to fixed open-ocean observatories
A TNA office e-mail address managed by PLOCAN (fixo3.tna@plocan.eu) attended the different enquiries and provided an electronic tracer from which all the steps related to the call procedure could be executed. The text box below includes the call timeline as stated in the different documents.
| Opening of the call: 15th of June 2014 Signed submission forms shall be sent in PDF to fixo3.tna@plocan.eu Submission deadline for the first call : 31st of July 2014 17h00 GMT Evaluation and selection phase : from call opening date to 31st of October Feedback to applicants : 15th of November 2014 Project implementation planned to start in 2015 |
From the fifteen infrastructures offered for free access, nine received proposals indicating a success rate of 60% of the infrastructures. A total of fifteen proposals where received, 6 of the observatories received only one proposal, whereas 3 of the infrastructures received 2, 3 and 4 applications respectively (Figure 1).
Figure 1. Distribution of the fifteen proposals by infrastructures.
The list of projects that finally passed the evaluation is included in the table below, indicating the reference according to the order of arrival, the infrastructure and its main operator, the applicant as main investigator, the title of the proposal and the acronym if one was provided. A more detailed description is included in Annex A.
Table 1. List of projects including the proposal, applicant and infrastructure involved.
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Infrast. |
Infrastructure Operator |
Applicant |
Proposal title- Acronym |
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French Marine Research Institute (IFREMER) and National Scientific Research Centre (CNRS), France |
Per Hall University of Gothenburg, Sweden |
Fixed-point Open Ocean Observatories (pCO2 and pH) -FIXO3 |
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Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), Greece |
Spyridon Volonakis ALS MARINE CONSULTANTS, Cyprus |
Ageing of composites in Deep water environment – AGE-CO-DEEP |
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Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale (OGS), Italy |
Anders Tengberg, Aandera Data Instruments, Norway |
Combined testing of new acoustic profilers with Biochemical optodes in the Adriatic sea – COMBO |
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Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN), Spain |
Oliver Zielinski University of Oldenburg- ICBM, Germany |
UV Photometer operation and improvement in the top pelagic layer of an oligotrophic station |
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Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Germany |
Henry Ruhl National Oceanographic Centre, United Kingdom |
Benthic ecology and biogeochemistry using bathysnap and sediment oxygen profiling in the Arctic – ArcEcoBio |
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Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Germany |
Sinhue Torres Valdes National Oceanographic Centre, United Kingdom |
Dynamics of nutrients using autonomous instruments in FRAM strait – DYNAMITE |
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Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research Bremerhaven, Germany |
Bénédicte Ferré Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate-CAGE, Norway |
Ocean chemistry and acoustics in the gas hydrate-charged FRAM strait – GASFRAM |
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French Marine Research Institute (IFREMER), France |
Heinrich W. Villinger, University of Bremen, Germany |
MOMAR-Tilt |
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Universtitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), SARTI Research Group, Barcelona, Spain |
Emanuela Fanelli, ENEA, Italy |
Analysis of FISH community structure and trophic relationship by AUTomated video imaging at a coastal cabled observatory – FISHAUT |
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Universtitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UC), SARTI Research Group, Barcelona, Spain |
Pasquale Daponte, Laboratory of Digital Signal Processing and Measurement Information, University of Sannio. Piazza Guerrazzi, 1, 82100 Benevento, Italy |
Electrochemical corrosion measurements in deep seas -ELCOMEDES |
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Universtitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), SARTI Research Group, Barcelona, Spain |
Pierre-Jean Bouvet, ISEN-Brest, France |
Underwater acoustic modem with time Synchronization Capability test at obsea platform -UAMSync |
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Universtitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), SARTI Research Group, Barcelona, Spain |
Rogério Chumbinho SmartBay, Ireland |
SmartBay sensor testing and validation at OBSEA – SmartSEA |
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Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) – National Oceanography Centre (NOC), Southampton, United Kingdom |
Morten Hvitfeldt Iversen, Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany |
Seasonal food web interactions with the biological pump at the PAP site – SEAPAP |
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Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) – National Oceanography Centre (NOC), Southampton, United Kingdom |
Frank Wenzhoefer, Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany |
Benthic organic matter cycling dynamics at PAP – PAP-Dynamic |
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National Research Council of Italy, Italy |
Christos Tsabaris Hellenic Centre for Marine Research- HCMR, Greece |
Underwater sound and radom measurements of rainfall and wind at sea |
FixO3 MS8 Final (904.7 KiB)