The second FixO3 call for Trans-National Access (TNA) opened on the 1st of May 2015 and closed on the 31st of July 2015. Details about the call definition and selection criteria are described here.
A total of 15 FixO3 infrastructures were offered for access:
- Fourteen ocean surface, water column and seafloor observatory installations and systems
- One shallow water test site (OBSEA) with the ability to provide practical and time-efficient testing 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) was provided to facilitate various enquiries and also provided an electronic trail from which all the steps related to specific call procedure could be executed. The text box below includes the call timeline as stated in the different documents.
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Opening of the call: 1st May 2015 |
From the fifteen infrastructures made available for free access, nine received proposals (60%). A total of nine proposals were submitted, six of the observatories received only one proposal, whereas two of the infrastructures received two proposals and one received three (Figure 1). Notably one of the proposals presented the same approach to five different observatories, and therefore there are in fact 13 requests to access nine observatories.
Figure 1. Distribution of the nine proposals by infrastructures (13 accesses).
The list of projects which passed the evaluation is included in the table below, in order of date submitted. This list includes the infrastructure and its main operator’s name, the applicant as main investigator, the title of the proposal and the acronym (where provided). A more detailed description is included in Annex A.
Table 1. List of projects (2nd call) including proposal name, applicant and infrastructure involved.
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Infrastructure |
Infrastructure Operator |
Applicant |
Proposal title- Acronym |
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OBSEA |
Universtitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), SARTI Research Group Barcelona, Spain |
Alberto Figoli, SMID Technology, La Spezia (Italy) |
Shallow Water Hydrophone Array long term Deployment – SWHAD |
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PYLOS |
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), 46.7 km Athens-Sounion Road, Anavyssos, Attica, GR-19013 Greece |
Anders Tengberg (Aandera, Norway) |
Early Detection of Increased Seismic Activities – EDISA |
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PYLOS |
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), 46.7 km Athens-Sounion Road, Anavyssos, Attica, GR-19013 Greece |
Peter SchjØlberg, Fugro Oceanor, Norway |
Increase available power on oceanographic buoy and transmit AIS message with selected buoy parameters –INPOW-AISPAR |
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E1-M3A |
Institute of Oceanography |
Peter SchjØlberg, Fugro Oceanor, Norway |
Improving mooring design using integrated load cell and transmitting AIS message with selected buoy parameters – IMLOC-AISPAR |
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MOMAR |
French Marine Research Institute (IFREMER), BREST CENTER – 29280 Plouzané, France |
Olivier Rod, SWEREA KIMAB, Sweden |
Corrosion Resistance, Biofilm and Protection Data In Deep Seawater -DeepCorr |
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OBSEA |
Universtitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), SARTI Research Group Barcelona, Spain |
Ivane Pairaud, Ifremer, France |
Upwelling characterization with autonomous underwater vehicle – upAUV |
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ESTOC |
Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN), Crta. de Taliarte s/n, 35214 Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain |
Carlos Corela, Lisboa University, Portugal |
SEISMIC AND ACOUSTIC noise analysis at ESTOC site – SEACOUT |
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Station M, PAP, ESTOC, TENATSO/CVOO and DYFAMED |
1. Sta. M: University of Bergen, Geophysical Institute, P.O. Box 7803, |
Luciana Génio, Aveiro University, Portugal |
Larval Occurrences in Open Ocean: Connectivity studies in the East Atlantic and West Mediterranean – LO3CAted |
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OBSEA |
Universtitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), SARTI Research Group Barcelona, Spain |
Torstein Pedersen, Nortek, Norway |
Currentmeter intercomparison in a shallow water environment- CISWE |
FixO3 MS14 Final (944.7 KiB)