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Project title

A4-EirOOS-NOAC mooring refurbishment and deployment

Primary Funding Agency

Marine Institute

Co-Funding Organisation(s)

n/a

Lead Organisation

Maynooth University (NUIM)

Lead Applicant

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Project Abstract

Physical oceanography and climate survey focused on the deployment and refurbishment of EirOOS moorings from the Irish coast to Goban Spur, the deployment of DynaMOD Belgica Bank moorings collaboration with the University of Ghent (Marine Geology) and the refurbishment of the German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) moorings near Goban Spur. The survey will also deploy the glider, Laochra na Mara, to provide hydrographic observations from the Goban Spur to the on-shelf moorings. EirOOS is an SFI infrastructure grant to fund an Irish ocean observing system, one element of which is mooring infrastructure capable of measuring ocean circulation on the shelf and shelf edge. The project is supported by the Marine Institute funded A4 project (Aig�an, Aer�id, agus athr� Atlantaigh) and will mark the first Irish involvement in international efforts for sustained observing of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). This is a joint application between Maynooth University (MU), National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG), and BSH. It is part of a wider collaboration on the NOAC mooring array at 47�N with the University of Bremen, the OSNAP mooring array with the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) in the UK, and partners in the Horizon 2020 project Blue-Action who maintain the Greenland-Scotland Ridge observations.

Grant Approved

�176,000.00

Research Hub

n/a

Research Theme

Ireland's Future Climate, its Impacts, and Adaptation Options

Start Date

24/09/2022

Initial Projected Completion Date

01/10/2022