17 September 2024 news

The participants of the EMINENT project met for 2 days in Tromsø this month to present the progress of the work. As part of the meeting, Akvaplan-niva organized a demonstration on the use and benefits of offshore autonomous vehicles for ocean data collection.

Leader of the oceanography section at Akvaplan-niva, Magnus Drivdal, explains the ocean dynamics modelling tool FVCOM to the EMINENT team (Photo: Lionel Camus/Akvaplan-niva).

All the partners were invited to join 4 different workshops. Workshop 1 was a demonstration of a Seaglider and the plankton optical sensor UVP6 and workshop 2 was a showcasing of a Sailbuoy rigged with the sampler to collect environmental DNA for biodiversity assessment.

Seaglider demonstration by Kanchana Bandara/Akvaplan-niva (Photo: Lionel Camus/Akvaplan-niva).

eDNA sampler demonstration by Virginie Ramasco/Akvaplan-niva (Photo: Lionel Camus/Akvaplan-niva).

Workshop 3 was a field demonstration of the Otter vehicle collecting multibeam echosounder data to quantify the presence of kelp. Workshop 4 was a visit to the Akvaplan-niva Remote Operation Centre (ROC) to visualize the live acquisition of the multibeam echosounder data generated by the Otter vehicle and example of data generated by echosounder for a plankton and fish survey.

About the EMINENT project:

Full title: Energy Minerals for the Net Zero Transition (Havbunnsmineraler - akselererer energiomstillingen)

Project management: Adepth Minerals AS v/Dr. Anette Broch Mathisen Tvedt, +47 975 62 768

Project partners: UiB, NTNU, UiT, NORCE, Future Materials Norwegian Catapult Centre, Akvaplan-niva, NOV, Aanderaa, DeepOcean, Shearwater, AkerBP, Seabed Solutions, Geoprovider, GCE Ocean Technology

Funding: The Research Council of Norway, Innovation Norway, Siva

Project site: https://akvaplan.no/en/project...