EurOcean Full Members are European marine research, innovation and entrepreneurship, funding and outreach organisations who own and operate a plethora of marine research infrastructures ranging from research vessels to Aquaculture facilities.
WISE-Marine is a portal and infrastructure for sharing information with the marine community on the marine environment at European level. Focusing on the state of the marine environment at the European scale, WISE Marine shows the information and...
The Acqua Alta oceanographic platform of the National Research Counci (CNR)l has been operating in the Northern Adriatic since March 1970. It is located 8 nautical miles off the coast in front of Venice, on a depth of 16 meters. Equipped with the...
The international Argo programme was initiated in 1999 as a pilot project endorsed by the Climate Research Program of the World Meteorological Organization, GOOS, and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission. The Argo network is a global...
The research vessel Mare Nigrum is an oceanographic multidisciplinary research vessel operated by GeoEcoMar, Romania. The RV is suitable for multipurpose research vessel which carries out a wide variety of survey operations in offshore as well as...
The Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS) is a pan-European research infrastructure which provides harmonised and high-precision scientific data on carbon cycle and greenhouse gas budget and perturbations. The ICOS Ocean Thematic Centre (OTC...
The oceanographic RV Dallaporta, operated by CNR, carries out advanced studies in the field of scientific fishing, marine biology and the marine environment in general, has a length of 35 meters and reaches a maximum speed of 14 knots. The ship...
RV “G.O. Sars” was delivered in 2003 and is owned by IMR the Institute of Marine Research (75%) and the University of Bergen (25%). The main operating areas are the Barents Sea, the Norwegian Sea and the North Sea. The vessel has also carried out...
The Odas Italia 1, operated by CNR, is a weather-oceanographic buoy. It represents a unique example of a marine post-high altitude laboratory. The structure, located in the open sea 40 miles from the coast in the Ligurian-Tuscan and Provençal...
The Research Vessel Kronprins Haakon, operated by IMR has been built to operate in challenging ice conditions, which means it can go further north and south than any other Norwegian research vessel. It is equipped with the very latest high-tech...