TY - JOUR T1 - The EMSO Generic Instrument Module (EGIM): Standardized and Interoperable Instrumentation for Ocean Observation A1 - Lantéri,Nadine A1 - Ruhl,Henry A. A1 - Gates,Andrew A1 - Martínez,Enoc A1 - Del Rio Fernandez,Joaquin A1 - Aguzzi,Jacopo A1 - Cannat,Mathilde A1 - Delory,Eric A1 - Embriaco,Davide A1 - Huber,Robert A1 - Matabos,Marjolaine A1 - Petihakis,George A1 - Reilly,Kieran A1 - Rolin,Jean-Francois A1 - Van Der Schaar,Mike A1 - André,Michel A1 - Blandin,Jerome A1 - Cianca,Andrés A1 - Francescangeli,Marco A1 - Garcia,Oscar A1 - Hartman,Susan A1 - Lagadec,Jean Romain A1 - Legrand,Julien A1 - Pagonis,Paris A1 - Piera,Jaume A1 - Remirez,Xabier A1 - Toma,Daniel M. A1 - Marinaro,Giuditta A1 - Moreau,Bertrand A1 - Santana,Raul A1 - Wright,Hannah A1 - Dañobeitia,Juan José A1 - Favali,Paolo AD - Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer, Plouzané, France AD - European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and Water Column Observatory, Rome, Italy AD - National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom AD - Monterey Bay Aquarium, Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States AD - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain AD - Department of Renewable Marine Resources, Functioning and Vulnerability of Marine Ecosystems Group, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar (ICM-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain AD - Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn (SZN), Naples, Italy AD - Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France AD - Plataforma Oceánica de Canarias, Telde, Spain AD - Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy AD - MARUM – Zemtrum für, Marine Umweltwissenschaften der Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany AD - Hellenic Centre for marine Research, Attiki, Greece AD - Marine Institute, Galway, Ireland AD - Instituto de Ciencias del Mar, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain AD - Unidad de Tecnologia Marina, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain UR - https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00756/86848/ DO - 10.3389/fmars.2022.801033 KW - fixed-point observatories KW - multi-parametric monitoring KW - seafloor KW - water column KW - EMSO KW - EGIM KW - EOV N2 - The oceans are a fundamental source for climate balance, sustainability of resources and life on Earth, therefore society has a strong and pressing interest in maintaining and, where possible, restoring the health of the marine ecosystems. Effective, integrated ocean observation is key to suggesting actions to reduce anthropogenic impact from coastal to deep-sea environments and address the main challenges of the 21st century, which are summarized in the UN Sustainable Development Goals and Blue Growth strategies. The European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water column Observatory (EMSO), is a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), with the aim of providing long-term observations via fixed-point ocean observatories in key environmental locations across European seas from the Arctic to the Black Sea. These may be supported by ship-based observations and autonomous systems such as gliders. In this paper, we present the EMSO Generic Instrument Module (EGIM), a deployment ready multi-sensor instrumentation module, designed to measure physical, biogeochemical, biological and ecosystem variables consistently, in a range of marine environments, over long periods of time. Here, we describe the system, features, configuration, operation and data management. We demonstrate, through a series of coastal and oceanic pilot experiments that the EGIM is a valuable standard ocean observation module, which can significantly improve the capacity of existing ocean observatories and provides the basis for new observatories. The diverse examples of use included the monitoring of fish activity response upon oceanographic variability, hydrothermal vent fluids and particle dispersion, passive acoustic monitoring of marine mammals and time series of environmental variation in the water column. With the EGIM available to all the EMSO Regional Facilities, EMSO will be reaching a milestone in standardization and interoperability, marking a key capability advancement in addressing issues of sustainability in resource and habitat management of the oceans. Y1 - 2022/03 PB - Frontiers Media SA JF - Frontiers In Marine Science SN - 2296-7745 VL - 9 ID - 86848 ER -