- The oceanographic buoys continuously record temperature, salinity, turbidity, chlorophyll, dissolved oxygen and inorganic nutrients, and transmit the data in real time.
- The information feeds a digitalised database that serves as a historical record for the study of phenomena such as climate change and eutrophication.
Oropesa del Mar (Castellón). Versemar, an environmental consultancy specialising in the marine environment, is promoting the use of autonomous systems for measuring physicochemical parameters, with the aim of integrating them into a digitalised database available for future local projects and for environmental research.
In recent years, marine environmental policy has advanced significantly, reaching a level of demand comparable to that applied on land. Its development, however, still comes up against major limitations in reliable information, and against the prevalence of generalist narratives that limit the objectivity of public debate on specific problems at regional or local level.
Marine scientific research, despite its enormous progress in the understanding of general and global matters, remains in many geographical areas at the exploration and description stage, with barely any historical records of environmental data.
The experience of traditional sea users, mainly fishermen and sailors, contributes only a partial view, from the surface, without perceiving what is really happening at depth.
The marine environmental studies Versemar carries out to meet its clients’ varied needs, linked to any coastal or shoreline activity, to civil maritime works or to industrial processes, generate a significant amount of valuable technical information that, properly managed, would be exceptionally useful in filling that gap.
In response to this challenge, the Castellón-based consultancy is proposing to its clients the deployment of autonomous systems for measuring physicochemical parameters (temperature, salinity, turbidity, chlorophyll concentration, dissolved oxygen, inorganic nutrients and others), using instruments housed in oceanographic buoys, with continuous digital data logging and real-time transmission.
Beyond meeting the regulatory requirements of monitoring programmes, the data obtained feeds a digitalised database conceived both as a source of prior information for planning future local projects and as a historical record for the study and tracking of general phenomena that also affect seas and oceans, such as climate change and eutrophication.
“Our intention is to turn the data obtained in the Environmental Monitoring Programmes we carry out in our day-to-day work into knowledge that is useful and available for other purposes of general interest. Autonomous systems for monitoring oceanographic parameters not only make it possible to meet the requirements of each assignment, but also to multiply the availability of reliable marine data for a rigorous analysis of general environmental phenomena such as climate change and other, less widely known, processes of alteration.” says José Luis Esteban, a biologist specialising in marine ecology at Versemar.
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