Deep Ocean Listening
Upcoming iMARL work
Upcoming and ongoing iMARL work
About
iMARL the “Insitu Marine Laboratory for Geosystems Research” is a network of various types of ocean floor located sensors, hosted by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS). It comprises broadband Ocean Bottom Seismographs (OBS), hydro-acoustic sensors, and sensors for measuring absolute water pressure & temperature at the ocean floor. A system capable of detecting tsunamis also forms part of the infrastructure. The sensor pool is largely mobile and can, in principle, be deployed around the world. One instrument is a long term OBS system and will ultimately become a real-time sensing offshore element of the Irish National Seismic Network (www.insn.ie)
Team
- Louise Collins
Primary contact and Co-ordinator
lcollins-at-cp.dias.ie - David Craig
Technical Lead
davcra-at-dias.ie - Chris Bean
Project PI
chris.bean-at-dias.ie - Martin Möllhoff
Data Management
martin-at-dias.ie - Clare Horan
Logistics
choran-at-cp.dias.ie - Sheena Fennell
Operational Oceanographer
sheena.fennell@universityofgalway.ie
Equipment
iMARL comprises a mobile pool of
- Ocean Bottom Seismometers (OBS)
- Hydroacoustic instruments
- A lander for instrumentation to be deployed to the seabed
- Absolute pressure sensors and a fixed seismic, hydroacoustic and absolute pressure instrument set, for long term monitoring at a single site.
Contact
Contact Address
iMarl
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
5 Merrion Square
Dublin 2