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EMSO (European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water-column Observatory, www.emso-eu.org) is a European large‐scale distributed Research Infrastructure (RI) with the essential scientific objective of real‐time, long‐term observation of environmental processes related to the interaction between the geosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere, for multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary investigation of deep ocean processes related to Marine Ecosystems, Climate Change and Marine Geo-hazard. The geographic locations of the EMSO observatory nodes represent key sites in European waters, from the Arctic, through the Atlantic and Mediterranean, to the Black Sea, as defined through previous studies performed in FP6 and FP7 EC projects. EMSO is one of the environmental RIs included on the roadmap of ESFRI (European Strategic Forum on Research Infrastructures) since 2006, and it is included as Landmark in the last ESFRI roadmap 2016 (www.esfri.eu/roadmap-2016). EMSO in October 2016 became ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium), the legal body that will be in charge of running EMSO observatory nodes as a unique integrated marine infrastructure. EMSO ERIC will be hosted by Italy with participation of Italy, France, The United Kingdom, Greece, Spain, Ireland, Portugal and Romania. Many other countries are interested to be part of this RI.
