Disciplinary boundaries Sample Clauses

Disciplinary boundaries. Participants in ESONET are unified by the requirement for continuous data acquisition on decadal time scales at fixed locations in the seas around Europe. This requirement brings together scientific disciplines that would otherwise have little contact with one another. Geo- sensors may be deployed in bore holes beneath the sea floor to monitor fluid flow with the earth’s crust. Ocean bottom seismometry is focussed on signal processing from arrays, rather than specific sampling of the seafloor. Within the water column, oceanographers study movements of water masses and their influence on the transfer of heat and matter across the planet with little reference to biology or solid Earth sciences. There has been little communication between remote sensing scientists and those specialising in development of sea floor instrumentation. A relatively recent positive development is the link to the astronomy community on neutrino networks as well as with hydrocarbon industry in joint use of sub-sea infrastructure. It is vital for ESONET to build links across these boundaries in order to build efficiently the scientific multidisciplinary monitoring objectives and a joint infrastructure. To overcome this fragmentation, WP3 is dedicated to a multidisciplinary scientific approach of subsea observatories.