Field experiments will be carried out every summer from 2024 to 2026.
HIAOOS has a task dedicated to ensuring good environmental practices for carrying out field experiments in the Arctic. Impact assessments will be carried out each year ahead of the field expeditions.
Planned field experiments include:
2023 – Functionality test of the acoustic buoy system near Bergen using a small ship.
2024 – Field experiment in the Nansen and Amundsen Basin with an icebreaker to deploy the multipurpose mooring system and to test the acoustic ice buoy.
2025 – Deployment of acoustic ice buoy north of Svalbard to drift with the ice for up to 3 months. The ice buoy will transmit positions via satellite telemetry.
2025 – Deployment of the transformative mooring in ice, first test of data download with ROV and recovery of drifting ice buoy. Deployment of SWIPS mooring with real time data transmission in open ocean area north of Svalbard and test of acoustic transmission of data.
2026 – Recovery of all moorings and drifting acoustic buoy.
The overall field experiment plan (Deliverable 2.1) will be made available during the later part of 2023.
See Deliverables for updates.