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TRICUSO Currents – Volume 5 – Summer & Winter 2026

Our Summer/Winter Season saw the achievement of many milestones around project innovations and methodologies, and participation in a number of workshops and meetings with SOCAT, SOCONET, SCAR, Polar Argo and others. TRICUSO researchers were also busy accomplishing quite a few milestones in observing network design (M27, M9) and innovations around measurements (M7) and methodology (M11). Read Volume 5 to learn more.

A group picture of nine people on board of a ship. Most of them wearing yellow helmets and other fluorescent work clothing. A blue sky and ocean in the background.

First Cruise for European Bio-GO-SHIP

TRICUSO is supporting Europe’s contributions to the important International Bio-GO-SHIP programme. Learn about the first cruise that delivered on this objective from Sophie Clayton.

Call to Action for Ocean Carbon Enthusiasts: Observers, Scientists, Policymakers and Wider Society

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The European Ocean Carbon Summit is a campaign driven by a coalition of Horizon Europe projects focussed on ocean carbon to jointly summarise the aims and achievements of this EU investment portfolio and make recommendations for future funding actions; findings will be presented at an public event in Brussels.

A photo snippet of MV Pharos at the dock.

A New SOOP Line in the Southern Ocean – MV Pharos

Down Under in the Southern Ocean, the TRICUSO team has achieved another great success with the implementation of a surface pCO₂ sensor – an underway system on the MV Pharos, enabling crucial measurements of the surface ocean’s uptake of carbon.

A world map showing the depth of the oceans (bathymetry) in a blue colour gradient. On the map some sites are indicated as well: one in green to the right of North America, a few in dark blue in the Southern Ocean, an orange line from Antarctica to Australia and a red site in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Pasted on the picture in the top right corner is a TRICUSO milestone badge displaying 'Milestone 11'.

Methodology to Define pCO₂ Fields from Multiple Research Infrastructures (M11)

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For the first time, a new approach to characterise surface ocean pCO₂ variability using observations from multiple Research Infrastructures, which disentangles the anthropogenic and circulation-driven contributions to observed pCO₂ changes, has been successfully validated at reference ocean time-series stations and extended to the Southern Ocean.

NOC’s combined lab-on-chip TADIC sensor. Pasted on the picture in the top right corner is a TRICUSO milestone badge displaying 'Milestone 7'.

Lab-on-chip TADIC Sensor: Ready for Float Integration (M7)

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Partner NOC’s lab-on-chip technology miniaturises analytical laboratory methods into compact autonomous sensors. For this milestone, the focus has been on the TADIC sensor, which combines two carbonate-system measurements within a single autonomous lab-on-chip platform…

Thumbnail for the first TRICUSO project video. Episode 1: Expanding the capacity of observation in the Southern Ocean. In the background is the beautiful scenery of the floating ice on the Southern Ocean, snowy mountains and a blue sky.

TRICUSO Project Video – Episode One (M32)

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TRICUSO’s first video showcases the beautiful scenery of the Antarctic region and focuses on early project stories. It features interviews with consortium scientists discussing the need to expand the capacity for observation in the Southern Ocean where an increase in data is needed to help address the discrepancy between data and models used for forecasting. The video also introduces the project’s ambitions to innovate sensor technology and engage the support of citizen science platforms—racing yachts and tourist vessels—sailing in the Southern Ocean.