GEORGE-project provides next-generation multiplatform ocean observing technologies for RIs, a joint data flow from the sea bed to the surface ocean, and applies novel tools for knowledge sharing.

Abstract

The ocean observing research infrastructures (RIs) in Europe (i.e. ICOS, EMSO, Euro-Argo) have successfully implemented a world-leading system of standardised Ocean observations over the past 15 years, building on more than a century of experiences by the involved marine institutes. This community has joined forces in the GEORGE project to take their observation to the next level of technology: GEORGE aims to develop an already existing observations network with novel state-of-the-art biogeochemical, multi-platform observing system operated across ERICs that can carry out integrated biogeochemical observations for characterisation of the Ocean carbon system. We have brought together 28 partners from leading European ocean-observing technology developers, academia, and the observing community. In addition to improving the measurement technologies of the existing RI’s, GEORGE will also streamline data treatment, e.g., quality control and the data flow to repositories, as well as adopt the novel methods developed for knowledge sharing to endorse rigorous learning without boundaries to ensure the sustainability of future ocean observations.