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Project

MUSE

Marine Environmental Robotics and Sensor Technologies for sustainable Research and Management of Coastal, Ocean, and Polar Regions

Within the MUSE project we work on the development of innovative technologies to explore and monitor the oceans.

MUSE Project Schema

Ocean data collection using a wide range of innovative instruments. (Image: MUSE)

Sustainable ocean research requires synoptic observations of Essential Ocean Variables (EOVs) to assess the environmental status from local to global scales. MUSE will bring the capacities of the Helmholtz Centres Hereon, AWI and GEOMAR for ocean observations to a new level.
Exploring and monitoring oceans at adequate temporal and spatial scales requires innovative and intelligent sensor systems. Robust physical, biogeochemical and optical sensor systems are needed to visualize the dynamic processes in all parts of the ocean in high spatial and temporal resolution, at large spatial scales and over longer time scales. MUSE will make sure that next-generation sensing capacities are made available to associated platforms. By adopting a modular sensor system approach, MUSE ensures that the technologies are transferable also to other platforms from all partners (e.g., landers, moorings, gliders, crawlers, ice-tethered platforms, profiling winches); both in the deep sea and at the coast. This will allow the collection of data over large temporal and spatial scales to increase our capacities to address EOVs at the seafloor and in the water column.

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Contact

Dr. Klas Ove Möller
Dr. Klas Ove Möller

Head of Department

Institute of Carbon Cycles/ Biological Carbon Pump

Phone: +49 (0)4152 87-2371

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