EMSO ERIC

EMSO ERIC - European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water-column Observatory

The European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water-column Observatory (EMSO) is a distributed Research Infrastructure aiming at exploring the oceans to gain a better understanding of phenomena happening within and below them, and to explain the critical role that these phenomena play in the broader Earth system. EMSO offers high-quality environmental data and services covering a multi- and inter-disciplinary range of research areas including biology, geology, chemistry, physics, engineering and computer science, from polar to tropical environments. EMSO provides these data to a large and diverse group of users, from scientists and industries to institutions and policy makers to support the definition of environmental policies and respond to pressing scientific and societal challenges.