HiAOOS will have close collaboration with European RIs through their national nodes, e-infrastructures, research programs, projects and clusters for innovation, and endorsed Ocean Decade activities with focus on the Arctic Environment.
European RIs
HiAOOS is connected to several European RIs (e.g., EPOS; Euro Argo, ICOS) through partners who are responsible for their national nodes (UiB, IMR, IOPAN).
E-infrastructures
HiAOOS is connected to the Norwegian Marine Data Centre (NMDC) through IMR (lead), NERSC and NPI. NMDC is a distributed data infrastructure for marine data products. IMR leads the Arctic component of INSTAC under Copernicus Marine Service. UIB leads EPOS-N(orway) which will make low frequency passive acoustic data products from HiAOOS available for EPOS.
Research programs
HiAOOS will collaborate with teams active in long-term Arctic Ocean observing such as the Beaufort Gyre Exploration Project; Nansen and Amundsen Basins Observational System (NABOS), and the International Arctic Buoy Program (IABP). HiAOOS will further collaborate with ongoing projects such as US ONR-funded High Arctic Acoustic Thermometry and Soundscape HiAATS (2023-2027), H2020 Arctic PASSION (2021-2025), and Horizon Europe SUBMERSE (2023-2026). HiAOOS will establish collaboration with emerging initiatives regarding observing the ocean in the high Arctic.
Research and innovation
NERSC, IMR, and KM are partners in Centre for Research-based innovation – SFI Smart Ocean hosted by the University of Bergen, Department of Physics and Technology. HiAOOS will collaborate with the Ocean Technology network, which is a cluster of more than 100 members from research and industry with focus on innovation in ocean technologies.
Endorsed Ocean Decade activities
HiAOOS will follow up UN Ocean Decade Working Groups for the Arctic and connect to the following endorsed Ocean Decade activities: (1) The UN-Maritime Acoustic Environment (UN-MAE) focusing on the ‘ocean sound’ environment. (2) OneArgo: an integrated global, full depth and multidisciplinary ocean observing array for beyond 2020), (3) The SMART Cables for Observing the Global Ocean.