RV Endeavor
The Research Vessel Endeavor is owned by the National Science Foundation and operated under a Charter Party Agreement by the Graduate School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island. The ship was built in 1975 and underwent a major mid-life refit in 1993. The vessel is homeported in Narragansett, RI at the URI Bay […]
RV Ernest Shackleton
RRS Ernest Shackleton (ES), was primarily a logistics vessel used to transport cargo, fuel and passengers. The ship also has a basic scientific capability and undertakes some research work. During the northern summer, the ES is commercially chartered and usually works in the North Sea. The ship was built by Kverner Klevin Leirvik A/S, Norway […]
RV G.O.Sars
RV “G.O. Sars” was delivered in 2003 and is owned by 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 trips to the Mid Atlantic ridge and to the Antarctic. “G.O. […]
RV halassa
The Thalassa is a seventy-five-metre ship, delivered in 1996, whose principal activities involve population ecology and assessing species fished in the Channel, the Bay of Biscay and the North Sea. For this work, she is fitted out with fishery echo sounders and trawling systems. She is also a multipurpose vessel designed to undertake research cruises […]
RV Alkor
The ALKOR, like her sister ship HEINCKE, is a medium-sized research vessel with a length of 55 metres. She operates mainly in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea.
RV Heincke
The HEINCKE research ship was put into operation in 1990 and is one of Germany’s medium-sized research vessels. The HEINCKE operating areas are the North Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean. She is fitted with a wide range of equipment for research projects in the fields of biology and hydrography. The vessel is in operation […]
RV Angeles Alvarino
The regional vessel R/V Alvarino is a multipurpose research vessel that works from fisheries research to marine geology/hydrographic surveys and oceanographic ones. The vessel is made available to both internal users and to external academic researchers by the annual shiptime funding program which is a peer reviewed process based on scientific excellence. This funding results […]
RV Hesperides
The Oceanographic Research Vessel (R/V) Hespérides is a global research vessel. Its instrumentation and laboratories allow to perform studies of geology, marine geophysics, hydrography, physical and chemical oceanography, marine biology and ocean monitoring with deep towed vehicles and remotely operated vehicles (ROVs, etc.). The research carried out in it is fundamentally directed and financed by […]
RV Ary Rongel
Ary Rongel (H44) is an ice-strengthened oceanographic research ship of the Brazilian Navy. It was built by the Georg Eide’s Sønner of Høylandsbygd, Norway as Polar Queen and was launched on 22 January 1981. The research vessel was constructed at Georg Eide’s Sønner in Hoylandsbygd, Norway with the yard number 111. The vessel’s keel was […]
RV Islândia
RV Islândia is a small fishing vessel for pelagic and bottom trawls, built in 1993 in Iceland, and later donated to the Cape Verdean Government. It is now under INDP’s responsibility. Since the beginning of CVOO, the ship has been converted from a fishing vessel to a multidisciplinary research vessel.
RV Atlantic Explorer
The R/V Atlantic Explorer is owned and operated by the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) in compliance with U.S. Coast Guard, UNOLS, and American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) regulations as an uninspected research vessel.
RV James Clark Ross
RRS James Clark Ross (JCR), launched by HM the Queen in 1990, is primarily a marine research vessel for biological, oceanographic and geophysical cruises. It is equipped with a suite of laboratories and winch systems that allows scientific equipment to be deployed astern or amidships. The ship has an extremely low noise signature, allowing the […]
RV Atlântico Sul
The Oceanographic Ship Atlântico Sul, from the Federal University of Rio Grande, was built in Brazil (at the Embrasa shipyard, SC, 1973), and has been operating in the field of oceanographic and fisheries research (the only one in Brazil with these two characteristics) since the end of 1970s.
RV Austral
ARA AUSTRAL (IMO: 6909777) is a Research/Survey Vessel that was built in 1969 (52 years ago) and is sailing under the flag of Argentina. It’s carrying capacity is 1127 t DWT and her current draught is reported to be 6.6 meters. Her length overall (LOA) is 97.61 meters and her width is 14.23 meters.
RV Baia Farta
RV Baía Farta is a new fishery and oceanographic research vessel being built by Damen Shipyards Group at Damen Shipyards Galati, for the Angolan Ministry of Fisheries.
RV CCGS Hudson
CCGS Hudson is an offshore oceanographic and hydrographic survey vessel operated by the Canadian Coast Guard. The ship entered service in 1963 with the Canadian Oceanographic Service, stationed at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, called CSS Hudson. The ship made several significant scientific voyages, among them the first circumnavigation of the Americas in 1970. The […]
RV Celtic Explorer
The RV Celtic Explorer is the larger of the two state-owned research vessels run by the Marine Institute. It is a multi-purpose research vessel which came into service in 2003 and is designed for fisheries acoustic research, oceanographic, hydrographic and geological investigations as well as buoy/deep water mooring and ROV. Operations. At 65.5m in length, […]
Repository of Ocean Publications
The Repository of Ocean Publications (AquaDocs) is the joint open access repository of the UNESCO/IOC InternationaI Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) and the International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers (IAMSLIC) with support from the FAO Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts. It is a thematic repository covering the natural marine, […]
Research Data Archive at NCAR
The Research Data Archive (RDA) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) contains a large and diverse collection of meteorological and oceanographic observations, operational and reanalysis model outputs, and remote sensing datasets to support atmospheric and geosciences research, along with ancillary datasets, such as topography/bathymetry, vegetation, and land use.
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Operational Directorate Natural Environment, Belgian Marine Data Centre
The Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC) at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences is a National Oceanographic Data Centre (NODC) dedicated to the long-term storage, the scientific processing and the publication of Belgian marine environmental data. The mission of BMDC is firstly to assure the safeguarding of meaningful oceanographic data collections as a valuable […]
Portuguese Center for Global History
CHAM – Humanities Center is an inter-university research unit linked to the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the NOVA University of Lisbon and the University of the Azores, funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology. In September 2013, CHAM joined researchers from the following research units: from the former Beyond-the-Sea History Center, […]
Preparatory Phase for the Pan-European Research Infrastructure Danubius–Ri “The International Centre For Advanced Studies On River-Sea Systems
DANUBIUS-PP is a three-year project to raise DANUBIUS-RI (International Centre for Advanced Studies on River-Sea Systems) to the legal, financial and technical maturity required for successful implementation and development. DANUBIUS-RI is a pan-European distributed research infrastructure (RI) building on existing expertise to support interdisciplinary research on river-sea (RS) systems, spanning the environmental, social and economic […]
Pan-European Infrastructure for ocean & marine data management
SeaDataNet is a distributed Marine Data Infrastructure for the management of large and diverse sets of data deriving from in situ of the seas and oceans. Professional data centres, active in data collection, constitute a Pan-European network providing on-line integrated databases of standardized quality. The on-line access to in-situ data, meta-data and products is provided […]
Pan-European infrastructure for ocean and marine data management 2
SeaDataNet is a distributed Marine Data Infrastructure for the management of large and diverse sets of data deriving from in situ of the seas and oceans. Professional data centres, active in data collection, constitute a Pan-European network providing on-line integrated databases of standardized quality. The on-line access to in-situ data, meta-data and products is provided […]
Oil Spill Prevention and Response at Local Scales
The main aims of the SPRES project are to: (i) develop a set of high resolution operational oceanographic systems in several estuaries or ports located in the Atlantic Area, and (ii) establish local oil spill response plans for these local areas based on risk assessment. This work will apply to estuaries all along the European […]
Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange
The goal of these standards is to expose the rich content in aggregations of Web resources to applications that support authoring, deposit, exchange, visualization, reuse, and preservation. The standards support the changing nature of scholarship and scholarly communication, and the need for cyberinfrastructure to support that scholarship, with the intent to develop standards that generalize […]
Open Core Data
Open Core Data (OCDD) is a data infrastructure focused on making data from scientific continental and ocean drilling projects semantically discoverable, persistent, citable, and approachable to maximize their utility to present and future geoscience researchers.
OurOcean Portal
The goal of the OurOcean Portal is to enable users to easily access ocean science data, run data assimilation models, and visualize both data and models. The concept of OurOcean is to allow users with minimal resource requirements to access data and interact with models. Currently, they provide both real-time and retrospective analysis of remote […]
Ocean Science Center Mindelo
The Ocean Science Centre Mindelo (OSCM) is a joint facility of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany, and the IMar – Instituto do Mar – in Mindelo, Cabo Verde. The building has a total floor space of more than 1700 square meters. The central component is a drivable hall in which heavy […]
Oceanographic Database Search with Interactive Navigation
ODIN 2 – short for Oceanographic Database Search with Interactive Navigation – is a tool that has been specially developed for working with the IOW’s measurement database – IOWDB: It supports the focused and fast search in over 70 million database entries. The search – in English or in German – is supported by any […]
OceanSITES
OceanSITES is a worldwide system of long-term, deepwater reference stations measuring dozens of variables and monitoring the full depth of the ocean, from air-sea interactions down to 5,000 meters. The mission of OceanSITES is to collect, deliver and promote the use of high-quality data from long-term, high-frequency observations at fixed locations in the open ocean. […]
Offshore Renewables
WavEC offers marine renewable energy, offshore aquaculture and ocean engineering solutions. Our commitment is to do more and better, through innovation, development and transfer of knowledge processes. WavEC’s mission is to (1) To develop sustainable solutions for the blue economy through innovation, knowledge transfer and dissemination and (2) To promote the development of a national […]
