HiAOOS workshop on central Arctic Ocean research infrastructures
The HiAOOS team is in Tromsø this week organising a special workshop dedicated to Research Infrastructures in the Central Arctic Ocean.
Participants, both in-person and remote, came from all over the world-Norway, Sweden, Poland, Germany, Korea, Canada, USA-to discuss innovation in ongoing research projects in the central Arctic, particularly those with cutting edge research infrastructures (RIs), state-of-the-art ocean observing systems, ocean observing technologies, methods, and tools. These technologies and methods are especially important in the challenging ice-covered Arctic Ocean.
In 2024, HiAOOS will deploy a network of multipurpose moorings in the Nansen and Amundsen Basins for two years operation. Each mooring will be equipped with oceanographic and acoustic instruments. The HiAOOS system will facilitate ice and ocean observations, passive acoustics, acoustic tomography, and underwater geo-positioning (UW-GPS). The system will be available for use by others (not part of the HiAOOS consortium) who want to test the positioning capabilities of autonomous platforms (gliders, ARGO profilers, floats) in ice covered waters and underwater communication.
The workshop was organized in three sessions:
Session 1. Fixed installations including mooring networks and sea floor installations.
Overview of large projects with extensive field work in the central Arctic Ocean with emphasis on fixed observation infrastructures and measurement programs in the Central Arctic Ocean. Presentations focused on the purpose of the installations and how others could engage.
Session 2. Moving platforms including gliders, floats, ice buoys and airborne platforms.
Presentation of moving platforms programs including airborne platforms, sea ice buoys, floats, gliders, Argo buoys, etc. Presentations focused on the purpose of the measurements, data handling, and how others could engage.
Session 3. Technologies, methods, tools, and data delivery chains.
New developments to exploit the observing systems in different applications. A particular focus was on how new technologies, methods and tools can foster new applications as well as improve the delivery chains from multi sensor observing systems to data centers.
The workshop was a contribution to sustain and enhance collaboration and coordination in Arctic Ocean Observing, and in this way supported the development of the Arctic GOOS Regional Alliance. The workshop was organized by the EU-funded HiAOOS project and the AOOS project funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.