WORKPLAN

TRICUSO is organised into seven focused work packages interacting through the project timeline to ensure the smooth delivery of the project’s ambitions and meaningful impact.

WP1: Leadership and Management

Lead: NORCE
Contributors: UNEXE, GEOMAR, VLIZ, UEA, SSBE, and all partners

Coordinating the project to ensure efficient, smooth, and timely execution of all project activities, driving an accurate and timely communication flow among project partners and the European Commission, providing effective data management within the project, and organising two TRICUSO training courses.

WP2: New Autonomous Technology for the Ocean Carbon Cycle

Lead: University of Exeter (UNEXE)
Contributors: GEOMAR, WMO, NOC, SubCtech, SU, NKE, IMOCA, EURO-ARGO ERIC

Boost the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of sensors and instruments to be used on autonomous platforms, racing yachts and industry ships to make observations of variables needed to improve the calculation of ocean carbon uptake.

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Integrating a surface pCO₂ instrument onto a waveglider,
Undertaking long term stability tests to improve membrane systems integrated into sailing yachts,
Integrating pH sensors from Sea-Bird onto a profiling float,
Integrating NOC state-of-the-art Lab-On-Chip (LOC) sensors onto profiling floats,
Optimising and integrating dissolved oxygen and wind acoustics sensors on to profiling floats in order to characterise pCO₂ fluxes at the ocean-atmosphere interface on a large scale.

WP3: Observing System Design & Strategy

Lead: Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ)
Contributors: NORCE, SU, UNEXE, GEOMAR, NOC, CNRS, EURO-ARGO ERIC

Develop an observing system deployment plan and a coordinated strategy to optimally use the observing network including new platforms such as sailing yachts, cruise ships and autonomous sampling devices.

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Coordinate optimal deployment of BGC-Argo floats based on observing system experiments,
Providing observing system simulation experiments, determining the optimal observing strategy for underway pCO₂ on sailing yachts and autonomous platforms,
Designing a process-based methodology to combine observations from multiple RIs.

WP4: Field Trials of Novel Platforms and Data Pipelines

Lead: University of East Anglia (UEA)
Contributors: UNEXE, VLIZ, SU, NORCE, NOC, ICOS ERIC, GEOMAR, EURO-ARGO ERIC, WMO, SAERI

Coordinate the deployment of technologies developed in TRICUSO, leveraging the innovations of the Horizon Europe project GEORGE. This package will also develop the data handling required to integrate their data into relevant data assembly centers and ICOS Carbon Portal.

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Evaluate the Argo float developments undertaken in WP2,
Evaluate the surface ocean CO₂ systems developed in WP2,
Set the new data management pipeline (from the float to the data assembly center, i.e. Coriolis) for the wind acoustic measurements,
Develop pathways for campaign-based science into the ICOS Carbon Portal.

WP5: Optimising the Southern Ocean Carbon Observing System Using Multiple Platforms

Lead: NORCE
Contributors: CNRS, NOC, SU, UNEXE, GEOMAR, VLIZ, EURO-ARGO ERIC

Quantify the added value of observations collected during TRICUSO fieldwork.

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Quantify the added value of the CO₂ measurements from sailing yachts, ships and wavegliders as well as calculated pCO₂ from Argo floats for the integrated air-sea CO₂ flux,
Quantify the reduction in uncertainty in the integrated air-sea CO₂ flux,
Provide recommendations for future campaigns on the optimal use of the observing network.

WP6: Role of RIs in the G3W and the Wider GOOS Landscape

Lead: GEOMAR
Contributors: ICOS ERIC, WMO, EMBRC-ERIC, IO PAN, NORCE, NOC, EURO-ARGO ERIC, UEA, SAERI

Determine how the European Research Infrastructures can fully engage and play leadership roles within the G3W.

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Build a pathway for delivering a European contribution to Bio-GO-SHIP,
Establish a governance structure for international surface pCO₂ observations building on ICOS experiences that incorporates stabilising SOCAT,
Develop a long-term collaboration with the Antarctic cruise ship industry in partnership with IAATO, and with the offshore sail racing scene in partnership with IMOCA,
Determine any operational adjustments needed to allow RIs to participate fully in the G3W,
Provide a fully costed blueprint for European and RI engagement in a fit for purpose Southern Ocean Carbon Observing System.

WP7: Maximising Impact through Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation

Lead: SSBE
Contributors: IMOCA, NORCE and all partners

Ensuring that TRICUSO creates a lingering wake through ongoing storytelling, effective stakeholder engagement and collaboration with citizen science to promote the benefits of integrating ocean leisure activities with ocean observations.

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This work was funded by the European Union under grant agreement no. 101188028. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency (REA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.