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THE EUROPEAN RESEARCH ICEBREAKER AURORA BOREALIS: A DRILLING PLATFORM AND MULTIPURPOSE RESEARCH VESSELWWW.ERI‐AURORA‐BOREALIS.EU

Roberto AzzoliniESF – ERICON Science Officer

EMSO - ESONET

FIRST VISO MEETING

TROMSO 11, 12 JUNE 2009

ERICON-AB PROJECTa preliminary EU funded project for the

implementation of the European Icebreaker AURORA BOREALIS

ICEBREAKER, DRILLING PLATFORM AND MULTI PURPOSE RESEARCH VESSEL

ERICON AURORA BOREALIS

PROGRESSION AND INTERRELATION

national German work packages: technical

design

Potential science community engagement

ERICON Consortium Management

strategic integration and science management of polar research icebreaker within the european

research area

international access to polar research

vessels

cooperation with science programs

financial frameworks,

engineering, cast forecasting, country

commitment to construction and

operation

ERICON-AB PROJECT: General Structure

organizational and governance

frameworks for management of aurora borealis

legal structure, implementing agreements, ownership,

operational barriers

The ERICON AURORA BOREALIS project will generate the strategic,

legal, financial and organizational

frameworks for European ministries

and funding agencies to decide about the

construction and operation of AURORA

BOREALIS.

Co-ordination: ESF - France


Coordinator: ESF

48 Months duration

Budget: 4.5 Million Euro

ERICON-AURORA BOREALIS PARTNERSHIP

Project started March 1, 2008 and runs till February 2012


AURORA BOREALIS technical design

Courtesy Alfred Wegener Institute

Length over all 199,85 mBreadth moulded max. 49,00 mDraught max. 13,00 mDepth to Working Deck 17,75 mMax. speed: 15 knCruising speed: 12 knPersonnel (crew + scientists): 120Expedition duration: 90 days

Main Dimensions

Functionality of the vessel has to be ensured down to minus 50°C, research work from plus 45oC down to minus 30°C Power generation Diesel-electric; Generator capacity in total abt. 94 MW


WWW.ERI-AURORA-BOREALIS.EU

Heavy Icebreaker (IACS Polar Class 1), year-round operations, all polar waters, multi-year ice.

Multi-disciplinary vessel for all polar and marine research.

Dynamic Position system for ice and open water.

Glass dome roof, retractable, natural light inside the vessel (pat. pend.).

Helicopter: ILS, 2 helicopters, 1 Bell Agusta tilt-rotor VTOL Aircraft/helicopter equivalent.

AURORA BOREALIS - Technical Specifications

High energy efficiency:Max. 90 MW propulsion power.Waste heat recovery systems.Flexible engine configuration.

Photo courtesy by M. Klages, AWI

Forward Moon-Pool for ROV, AUV and other equipment operations (nets, landers, hydrocasts, etc.).

Back Moon-Pool primarily for deep-sea drilling, sediment coring,

monitoring.

Possibility to deploy in closed sea ice cover, wheremost deployments were technically challenging………or impossible.

Challenges inPolar Operations

Direct access to staging hangar (7 m height) and outside working deck.Space for more than 30 Laboratory containersAtrium: retreating decks upwards.About 2500 m2 fixed and mobile lab. space located around Moon Pool.

Forward Moon Pool and Atrium

Results from Ice Tank Model TestsBreak >2 m level ice continuously or thicker ice floes.

Ramming: break ridges (about 12 m) with few attempt .

Little ice accumulation under hull.

Breaks 2 m level ice in DP mode.

Break ridges of 4 to 6 m in DP speed (< 0.5 kn).

Consistent ice basin model tests results (Helsinki and Hamburg).

Icebreaking with slow or very little speed.

Icebreaking sideways: Hull shape, variable draught, heeling tanks

for icebreaking with roll/pitch movements.

High propulsion power (> 90 MW).

Mechanically robust propulsion.

Ice-resistant, redundant, servicable transverse thrusters.

Proof of concept by extensive ice basin model tests (Aker Arctic,

Helsinki and HSVA, Hamburg).

Icebreaking & Dynamic Positioning

IODP - ACEX - Expedition 2004

Vidar Viking could keep its position for max. 9 days

Vidar Viking

Sovetskiy Soyuz

Oden

Thanks to Joern Tiede, AWI

Icebreaking & Dynamic Positioning

Propulsion systems withstanding severest ice conditions

Complete double-hull design

Fully redundant engine rooms and equipment

Redundant dynamic positioning system (DP2)

Full weather protection (e.g. hangars) for science and drilling operations

Combine high ice-breaking capacity of vessel with stable open water performance (e.g. transits, Southern Ocean)

Advanced concepts for de-icing superstructure and equipment to maintain ship’s stability

Complete equipment for sustained survival of crew and scientists in “Total Loss of Ship” scenarios

Safety management systems:

AURORA BOREALIS Scientific issues


Perspectives of AURORA BOREALIS

Novel icebreaker that operates autonomously during all seasons and

in summer on stations (dynamic positioning), no additional icebreaker

support needed

Multi-purpose Research Vessel for a year-round deployment in the

Polar Regions (Central Arctic, Arctic basins, Antarctic Margins) and for

international and interdisciplinary expeditions

Scientific Drillship for drilling of 1000 m long cores in up to 5000 m

water depth under a closed sea-ice cover


MCS Data, Mendeleev Ridge (B. Coakley, unpublished)

CryosciencesWinter ice thickness /

properties

Pysical and Chemical Oceanography- water sampling -

Geological and Biological Oceanography

Long sediment cores (e.g. CALYPSO-system), Plankton nets, fishery biology, remotely

operated drilling, surface sediment sampling, etc.

GeophysicsMCS, 3D, optimized arrays, streamer, winches, etc.


Major research capacities for AURORA BOREALIS

MonitoringGround‐truth remote sensing/satellite data;Helicopter support for ice monitoring;Permanent laboratories for continuous ship‐borne monitoring of meteorology and atmospheric physics and chemistry.

Paleoclimate, Geology and GeophysicsLong sediment cores;Surface sediment sampling; Detailed mapping at high resolution

CryosciencesControlled in situ experiments, Video;Underwater photography; Winter ice thickness / properties.

Oceanography and Marine BiologyWater sampling;Dynamic properties;Plankton nets, fish biology, population dynamics;Small‐scale observations (isolated or patchy benthic populations)



Advanced Technologies

RO / Autonomous Operations

in Polar Regions

AUV and ROV deployments challenging to impossible in most polar regions from regular multi-purpose icebreakers or smaller vessels.

Facilitate all-seasons’ deployments under unfavorable ice conditions (below ice shelf e.g.), in max. 6000 m water depth.

permanent AUVs and

ROV

Courtesy Alfred Wegener Institute

Aurora Borealis allows to carry out the study of climatic changes in the main topics which are required for understanding them.

Environmental Monitoring

Climate ForcingLife response to changes

Modelling and forecast

Past climate evolution

UNDERSTANDING CLIMATE CHANGES


All these topics are crucial to understand the history, the structure and the dynamic of the Arctic and Antarctic basins.

Climate changes and Arctic Basins structure and evolution are relevant topics for human life.

Tectonic evolution

Sedimentation processes

Hydrothermal processes

Gas Hydrates

Geo hazards and permafrost

UNDERSTANDING GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL PROCESSES


Coastal and deep Arctic Ocean Antarctic Seas and Southern OceanTrans‐polar routes

All weather and ice conditions

GEOGRAPHIC AREAS OF OPERATIONS


AURORA BOREALIS INTEGRATION into the national and international

capabilities and priorities


integration

International Polar Networks

International Polar Programmes

National Research Agenda and

priorities

Related ESFRI Infrastructure

ERICON-AB PROJECT: Integration Process


integration



National Research Agendas and

priorities


ERICON-AB PROJECT: Integration implementation Process


2008 - 2009 Workshops and

meetings held with national scientific communities and

operators


ERICON-AB PROJECT: Integration implementation Process

National project’s portfolios for involvement in Aurora Borealis

LIFE RESPONSE TO CHANGES

MARINE BIOLOGY, PHYSIOLOGY AND POPULATION DYNAMICS

BIODIVERSITY AND ADAPTATION

MARINE ECOSYSTEMS

ECOLOGY, BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

COASTAL PROCESSES AND PEDOBIOLOGY

EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON SPECIES

MARINE MICROBIOLOGY

MEDICAL RESEARCH

PALEOCLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT

GEOLOGY & GEOPHYSICS

PALEOOCEANOGRAPHY

PALEOCLIMATE & PALEOENVIRNMENT

TECTONIC EVOLUTION

SEDIMENT TRANSPORT

SEAFLOOR PROCESSES, GEOHAZARDS, HYDROTHERMAL , HYDRATES

PERMAFROST

MONITORING AND CLIMATE FORCINGS

PHYSICAL CHEMICAL OCENOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE

MARINE COASTAL POLLUTION

ATMOSPHERE PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY

PHISICS AND ECOLOGY OF THE SEA ICE SYSTEM

WORK IN PROGRESS


Major themes of research for AURORA BOREALIS

A Strategic (Decadal) Programs should include:

Large and medium - scale circulation of polar oceans and atmosphere;Interactions between the pelagic ecosystems and the biogeochemical state of water masses; ocean acidificationPhysiology and population dynamics of pelagic and benthic assemblages in polar areas;Census of Arctic Marine Life;Deep Biosphere in the Arctic;Reconstruction of past climate from deposits in marine and periglacial environments including modeling of their properties and variability;Origin and evolution of the Arctic lithosphere;Ocean history and basement structure;Geodynamics of the Polar Ridges; Arctic Winter Sea Ice Monitoring;Deep-waters formation and renewal.


integration




priorities




Aurora borealis: strategic value for networks implementation

Strategic to link past (paleoclimate) and future (predictions)

Strategic to widen the geographic area for monitoring and understanding climatic processes and their interconnections

Strategic to understand climatic changes and feedbacks at a larger scale

Also strategic to improve international cooperation at national and international level

CMBP

IASOA

iAOOS

integration




priorities




IODP - ECORDECORD (European Consortium for OceanResearch Drilling) is a consortium fo 17 countries(16 european and Canada) formed in 2003 tojoin IODP (Integrated Ocean Drilling Program,see deliverable 3.1). ECORD is managed by INSU-CNRS.

The current IODP program ends in 2013 and thefuture of ocean drilling is being discussed both atthe scientific and the funding agency level. Todiscuss future directions of scientific ocean drillingbeyond 2013 and prepare a science plan, amultidisciplinary and international conference –INVEST (IODP New Ventures in ExploringScientific Targets) - is scheduled Sept 23-25 2009in Bremen /Germany (More information athttp://www.iodp.org).

A new Science implementation plan for IODP isexpected to be defined by early 2011, after twoyears of international discussion. So far thepreliminary “chart” highlights the importance ofsocietal and science relevance of Carbon cycle,sequestration and storage mechanism, extremeclimates, geohazards, subseafloor microbial andabiotic (fluids) activity, permafrost and gashydrates.

Thanks to Laura de Stantis


ANDRILL

ANDRILL program, will continue in theincoming years and a European consortium(EUROANDRILL) is being developed

ANDRILL is one of the larger IPY‐endorsedprograms The chief objective of ANDRILLis to drill back in time to recover a history ofenvironmental changes and determine thebehaviour of ancient ice sheets, and to betterunderstand the factors driving past icesheet, ice shelf and sea‐ice growth and decay

Contact: Frank Rack, Executive Director, [email protected] meetings: INVEST-Bremen, ACE-Granada


mailto:[email protected]

CAREXCAREX - Coordination Action for Research Activities on life in Extreme Environments

This project involves nine European Core partners and 45 European and non-European Associated partners.

The two main objectives of CAREX project are:to strengthen the structure of the (European) community involved in

life in extreme environments research by catalysing networking and interactions among it

to further the knowledge of life in extreme environment by developing a strategic research agenda in this field.

Coordinated by the British Antarctic Survey,Contact:;CAREX Coordinator: Dr. Cynan Ellis-Evans, BAS (email); CAREX Project Manager: M. Nicolas Walter, ESF (email)




EBA Evolution and Biodiversity in the Antarctic:

biota response to climate change

Using modern techniques and an interdisciplinary approach, EBA:

Explores the evolution of the Antarctic biotaExamines the role of Antarctic biodiversity in the actual ecosystemPredicts responses to future climate changes

Co-Chair: Dr Peter Convey, BAS, e-mail: [email protected]

Co-Chair: Dr. Guido di Prisco, CNR-IBP, e-mail: [email protected]




POLAR‐AODa network to characterize the means, variability, and

trends of the climate forcing properties of aerosols in polar regions

40 research teams from 22 countries

BRW

ALE

SUM

NYA

HORSOD

TIK

EUR

ALO

RES

TNBDOM

SPO

NEU

MIR

MAR SYOABO

ZHO

TRO

KHN

PAO

Bipolar Network


Brukernavn

Presentasjonsnotater

azione di network per la caratterizzazione del ruolo degli aerosols

http://www.isac.cnr.it/index.php

http://www.nipr.ac.jp/english/index.html

ACTION

SET LIAISONS WITH THE EXECUTIVE AND STRATEGIC INTERNAL STRUCTURES TO INCLUDE AURORA BOREALIS AS A REALISTIC OPTION INTO THEIR FUTURE PLANS

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priorities




COPAL

EURO-ARGO

EMSOEsonet

LIFEWATCH

SIAOS

ICOS

EPOS

ERICON-AB

ESFRIEuropean Strategy forum on Research

Infrastructure

ESFRI European Strategy forum on Research Infrastructure


AURORA BOREALIS

Shipping Company

AURORA BOREALISLimited

Steering Committee

Funding Agencies

Scientific and Technical Programmes

Scientific Programmes Implementation

Private Companies

Stakeholders

WP5: Governance frameworks

ERICON: Time Schedule

March 2008start

December 2009: Final Technical Design

November 2010: Decision of funding model

February 2012: Decision and adoption of structure and governance of Ericon’s Managing System

December 2014

MAIN MILESTONES

AURORA

BOREALIS

CONCLUSIONS

AURORA BOREALIS provides a unique infrastructure for European polar research, providing added value to other related ESRI Infrastructures and Networks;

It facilitates the development of long term scientific perspectives and strategies in international cooperation both in Arctic and Antarctica;

It requires the formation of an International Consortium of motivated National Institutions;

The abilities of the AURORA BOREALIS require a carefully balanced plan for interdisciplinary expeditions;


Thanks to Paul Egerton, Nicole Biebow, Laura Desantis, Hélène Haslé, Martina Kunz-Pirrung, Lester Lembke-Jene, Joern Thiede, Julien Weber

THANK YOU FORYOUR ATTENTIONThanks to Paul Egerton, Nicole Biebow, Laura Desantis,

Hélène Haslé, Martina Kunz-Pirrung, Lester Lembke-Jene, Joern Thiede, Julien Weber

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