International cable-based observatories
A wide range of regional seabed observatories are planned and under construction. Prototypes and part of some systems are already in place. The list below with web-link shows some of the ongoing activities and their current status:
- NEPTUNE (http://www.neptune.washington.edu/)
- NEPTUNE Canada (http://www.neptunecanada.ca/)
- VENUS (http://www.venus.uvic.ca/)
- MARS (http://www.mbari.org/mars/)
- ESONET (http://www.oceanlab.abdn.ac.uk/research/esonet.shtml)
- EMSO (http://www.ifremer.fr/esonet/emso/index.htm)
- Deep-ocean Environmental Long-term Observatory System (DELOS) (http://www.delos-project.org/)
- IceCube (http://icecube.wisc.edu/)
- LEO O5 (http://marine.rutgers.edu/cool/leo15.htm)
- MVCO (http://mvcodata.whoi.edu/cgi-bin/mvco/mvco.cgi)
- ORION (http://www.orionocean.org/)
- KM3NeT (http://www.km3net.org/index.php)
International and national meetings and workshops
Some relevant meetings and workshops not arranged by NOON:
- IEEE Fourth International Workshop on Scientific Use of Submarine Cables & Related Technologies, Dublin February 2006
- NCE Subsea Integrated Environmental Monitoring Workshop “Focus on the Northern areas”, Bergen April 2007
- ESONET Workshop, Barcelona September 2007
- Workshop on Sub-sea storage of CO2; the Marine Component, Bergen September 2007
- NCE Integrated Environmental Monitoring Subsea Workshop “Futures requirements to monitoring systems”, Bergen October 2008
- VISO workshop, Tromsø, June 2009
