PROGRAM

25 SEPTEMBER 2019

08:30

Registration

08:50

Welcome address

Juanjo Dañobeitia, DG of EMSO ERIC

09:00 –
12:45

SESSION 1   Best practices for intervention on observatories using underwater robots
Chaired by Giuditta Marinaro, INGV, Italy

1A - Methodologies for the installation and dismantling of heavy underwater infrastructures
During this session, participants will discuss methods, vehicles and tools for the installation of heavy underwater infrastructures comprising cables, junction boxes, branching units, seabed frames…

09:00

Risk Management in Marine and Subsea operations

Klaus Leismuller, INFN LNS, Italy

09:20

Deployment of scientific equipment at EMSO Western Ionian Facility

Giuditta Marinaro, INGV, Italy

09:40

Installation of the MEUST-NUMerEnv infrastructure and its ORCA neutrino detector

Patrick Lamare, CPPM-IN2P3, France

1B - Methodologies for deployment, recovery and in situ maintenance of scientific equipment
During this session, the methods, vehicles and tools used for the installation, recovery and maintenance of scientific measurement systems will be discussed. Measurement systems will range from simple sensors to complex systems such as seismometers, benthic stations or robots.

10:00

Installation and maintenance of cabled observatory infrastructure and scientific instrument packages

Adrian Round, ONC, Canada

10:20

Presentation of the Underwater Systems Unit in the French Oceanographic Fleet: capacities for intervention on underwater observatories

Jan Opderbecke, IFREMER, France

10:35

Coffee break + Poster session

11:05

The EMSO-Azores deep-sea observatory – 10 years of operation

Julien Legrand, IFREMER, France

11:25

Simultaneous operation of an ROV and an ascent cable on the EMSO Azores observatory

Gilbert Damy, IFREMER, France

11:45

Discussion: Best Practices to be drawn from the previous talks

12:45

Lunch + Poster session

14:00

Transfer to IFREMER – La Seyne/mer

14:45 –
16:45

SESSION 2    Hands-on session on operational systems
Participants will split into two groups to follow two // sessions

2A - HROV Ariane demonstration
- Functional demonstration of Ifremer’s HROV Ariane in a test basin. Intervention capabilities of the robot, equipped with specific tools for underwater intervention on a cabled observatory, will be shown (40’)
- Discussion about the HROV Ariane capabilities (15’, CETSM room))

2B - SJB demonstration
- Presentation of the Scientific Junction Box (SJB) for the EMSO LIGURE OUEST Observatory, by Christian Marfia, IFREMER and Carl Gojak, CNRS INSU (15’, CETSM room)
- Functional demonstration of the SJB junction box dedicated to environmental sciences on the EMSO Western Liguria Observatory and its scientific equipment (40’)

14:45

Group 1: Session 2A - HROV Ariane demonstration
Group 2: Session 2B - SJB demonstration

15:40

Coffee break

15:50

Group 1: Session 2B - SJB demonstration
Group 2: Session 2A - HROV Ariane demonstration

16:45

End of day one - Transfer to Toulon city centre

26 SEPTEMBER 2019

09:00 –
12:30

SESSION 3   Best practices for intervention without robots on underwater observatories
Chaired by Paris Pagonis, HCMR, Greece

3A - Intervention procedures from ships
This sub-session is dedicated to intervention procedures from ships for the following operations: deployment and recovery of autonomous equipment (mooring lines, benthic stations, etc.)

09:00

Installation and maintenance of shallow water cabled observatories

Adrian Round, ONC, Canada

09:20

Operations for the ALBATROSS line on the Ligurian western site EMSO

Carl Gojak, CNRS INSU, France

09:40

Sea operations and feedback from the Portuguese ZEE real time monitoring observatory

Inês Martins, IH, Portugal

3B - Intervention procedures with divers
This sub-session is dedicated to interventions on shallow water equipment (infrastructure and sensors), cabled or not.

10:00

Maintenance operations in the OBSEA observatory

Marc Nogueras Cervera, UPC, Spain

10:20

Coffee break + Poster session

10:50

Cabled coastal observatory: the example of EMSO-Nice towards best practices

Michel Répécaud, IFREMER, France

11:10

Optimising Operations at the EMSO_SmartBay Observatory: Towards Best Practices

Conall O’Malley, MI, Ireland

11:30

Discussion: Best Practices to be drawn from the previous talks

12:30

Lunch + Poster session

13:45 –
17:15

SESSION 4    Perspectives

4A – Technical innovation - Chaired by Jérôme Blandin, IFREMER, France
During this session, participants will discuss the prospects for optimizing intervention operations on underwater observatories:
-      technical innovations for cost reduction
-      technical innovation for avoiding the use of disposable ballast

13:45

Shipboard and remote, real-time video archiving and
annotation during ROV operations

Adrian Round, ONC, Canada

14:05

SIDENAV – A Flexible Solution for Deep Sea Positioning

Alfredo Martins, INESC TEC, Portugal

14:25

A Deep Seabed Observatory without Disposable Ballast:
the MARHA project

Jean-Romain Lagadec, IFREMER, France

14:45

Discussion: integrating innovations into operations

15:15

Coffee break

4B – Mutualisation of heavy means for servicing observatories
Chaired by Giuseppe Magnifico, EMSO ERIC, Italy

15:30

Introductory talk: Towards a coordinated access to vessels
for observatory maintenance cruises

Hélène Leau, IFREMER, France

15:40

EMB European Marine Board: Working Group on Research Vessels – Position paper on Next generation European RV

JuanJo Danobeitia, EMSO ERIC

15:50

EuroFLEETS+ project

Bernadette Ni Chonghaile, MI, Ireland

16:00

ERVO European Research Vessel Operators

Giuseppe Magnifico, EMSO ERIC

16:10

Discussion

17:15

End of workshop

POSTERS

Title

Presented by

The FOCUS project: connecting a 6-km long fiber optic cable to the EMSO Catania seafloor observatory to observe seafloor deformation in-situ

Marc-André Gutscher, Laboratoire Géosciences Océan, CNRS-UBO-UBS

Acqua Alta oceanographic tower after (almost) 50 years of research activity

Mauro Bastianini, CNR ISMAR

Buoyed observatory for permanent, sustainable monitoring of geological hazards in the Sea of Marmara: The MAREGAMI Concept

Loïc Dussud, IFREMER

EMSO Western Ligurian node - A Unique Cabled Observatory for Environmental Sea Science and Astroparticle Physics

Carl Gojak, CNRS INSU

BathyBot – the deep-sea crawler to see the unseen of the NW Mediterranean Sea

Carl Gojak, CNRS INSU

PAP - Autonomous Telemetered Fixed Point Observatory

Christopher L. Cardwell, UK Research and Innovation