About the project

The four-year project seeks to reduce the uncertainty of the Southern Ocean carbon sink through innovations in technical sensing capabilities and data analysis strategies to address the Carbon Sink Status of the Southern Ocean in support of the WMO Global Greenhouse Gas Watch.

The 18 partner consortium will achieve this by combining the efforts of three Research Infrastructures (ICOS, EMBRC, Euro-Argo), and GOOS within GO-SHIP, citizen science organisations and research networks around Europe. This will ultimately lead to better estimates of how global climate change will progress, and how best to manage our resilience to it.

TRICUSO’s key objectives include:

• Engaging with Citizen Science organisations and European SMEs through co-development and evaluation of technologies for ocean carbon observation and improve existing sensors for integration on floats, autonomous surface vessels and racing yachts!
• Determining how systematic, whole ocean, ocean biological observations, key to the understanding of ocean carbon cycling, can be supported within the EU Research Infrastructure landscape
• Building on the ICOS experience and support the initiation of an international surface ocean pCO₂
  observing network that integrates pCO₂
   observing efforts across multiple platforms
• Training Research Infrastructure members and others undertaking marine observations, in best practices for autonomous carbon observations and data handling enhancing the quality of generated data products
• Determining how the different Research Infrastructures and GOOS networks can deliver the optimal surface ocean pCO₂ observing system, and quantify the added value of the new observing platforms!

Consortium Partners

• NORCE Norwegian Research Centre [COORDINATOR], Norway
• Seascape Belgium (SSBE), Belgium
• Sorbonne Université (SU), France
• University of Exeter (UNEXE), UK
• SubCtech (SubCTech), Germany
• International Monohull Open Class Association (IMOCA), France
• GEOMAR, Germany
• NKE Instrumentation Sarl (NKE), France
• National Oceanography Centre (NOC), UK
• Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), Belgium
• Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique CNRS,(CNRS), France
• WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANISATION (WMO), Switzerland
• University of East Anglia (UEA), UK
• INSTYTUT OCEANOLOGII POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK (IO-PAN),  Poland
• SOUTH ATLANTIC ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH Instit. (SAERI), UK
• EMBRC-ERIC (EMBRC), France
• ICOS ERIC, Finland
• Euro-Argo ERIC (EURO-ARGO ERIC), France