SOOP
The SOOP project aims to develop new modular instruments and sensors that can be deployed on non-scientific vessels such as sailboats.

The ocean affects the earth in many different ways: it determines the global climate and provides food, energy, transport routes, and many substances that are useful for humans. However, large parts of the ocean are poorly known due to a lack of observations by standardized instruments to gather reliable and meaningful data. TheSOOP project aims to support the development of new modular instruments and sensors that can be deployed on non-scientific vessels, such as private sailboats, to collect oceanographic and climate-relevant data. The collected data will be made available on a jointly operated digital platform. This data can be used to create models of the ocean that simulate, for example, temperature, salinity, currents and other parameters. In this way, scientists can provide information about the state of the oceans and develop effective early warning systems. In SOOP, researchers from Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, GEOMAR and AWI are working together with partners from industry, civil society and science to improve oceanic data availability. The Biological Carbon pump Department is one of the project leaders and is co-developing a modular flow-through imaging system for particle measurements (OASIS).

The racing yacht “Malizia Seaexplorer” collects data for scientific analysis during the Ocean Race (Photo: Antoine Auriol)
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Biological Carbon Pump
Phone: +49 (0)4152 87-2371