WP5: Marine domain

WP Leader: Rosalia Santoleri – (CNR – Istituto di Scienze Marine)

The objective of the vertical WP5 is to integrate all relevant marine research infrastructures (RIs) to ensure access to Italian facilities, services, and marine data, facilitating the long-term monitoring of Essential Ocean Variables (EOVs), Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs), and Essential Climate Variables (ECVs). WP5 will implement the Italian Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) able to contribute to the European and International efforts on ocean observations (EOOS and GOOS), responding to the major challenges of the Ocean Decade and for the Mediterranean Sea. WP5 will enhance the digital automatization of Italian Research Vessels, and IOOS will improve quality and interoperability of ocean sensors, infrastructures and data at the national level for three critical themes: climate, operational services, and marine ecosystem health. WP5 will also show how data integration from RIs can improve monitoring of coastal waters (including river discharge) and the 4D view of the ocean state, thus building the digital twin of the ocean.