CEFAS Infrastructure: SmartBuoy monitoring network

SmartBuoys are deployed at coastal locations within the UK Marine Eutrophication Monitoring Programme and the Warp and West Gabbard are within the areas covered by the North Sea and Channel supersites. They are used to collect high-frequency timeseries of surface salinity, temperature, turbidity, oxygen saturation, chlorophyll fluorescence and nutrient concentrations. Data are returned to the laboratory in near real time. Water samples are collected and preserved onboard for later analysis of nutrients and phytoplankton species. The SmartBuoys are serviced 4 times a year during which samples are collected by rosette at the sites and on transects between the sites. Users would also be able to access the rosette for sampling.Water samples  are collected and preserved onboard for later analysis of nutrients and phytoplankton species. Parameters: High-frequency NRT series of surface S, T, turbidity, O2 saturation,Chlo fluorescence and nutrient concentrations.

More Information: 

Smartbuoy Infographic V8 (5.6 MiB)

Website:
http://wavenet.cefas.co.uk/Smartbuoy/Map

Cefas SmartBuoy

Previous ad hoc sensor trials include pCO₂, uv nitrate, settling plates for invasive species, passive samplers

Website:
http://wavenet.cefas.co.uk/Smartbuoy/Map

Modality of access under this proposal:MoA2. UA:day Modality used to declare access costs

TA-UC Support offered under this proposal: Access to the data, mooring infrastructure to deploy new sensors/instruments and rosette sampling for collecting additional samples.Access to the routine SmartBuoy data.

Services currently offered: Deployment and testing of new instrumentation with many partners including manufacturers and universities, and for deployment of passive samplers within and other research programmes.