General description
SOCIB is offering access to its glider fleet based in the Balearic Islands. This is a unique opportunity for scientists and engineers to use high-quality autonomous underwater vehicles operating in coastal, shelf and open sea areas for carrying out research, monitoring and/or testing activities.
The SOCIB Glider Facility offers External Users Access to ocean gliders for research and technology development, in complement to its routine and strategic programme of glider endurance lines in the Mediterranean sea. For process-oriented studies (e.g. complementing a R/V cruise), a minimum of 7 days usage is required. Longer monitoring proposals of typically 30 days or more are encouraged.
More details are provided in the guideline document for glider competitive access.
External Users Access
SOCIB Competitive Access
SOCIB organizes two calls per year for Glider Competitive Access. The Call programme for 2022 is as follow:
The proposals will contain a description of the work that users wish to carry out. They have to be drawn up following the Application Template.
The proposals have to be sent to the SOCIB Glider Competitive Access office, using the email address: glider.access@socib.es, during the publication of the call and before its deadline.
The proposals will be evaluated by the SOCIB Glider Facility and the external committee during the month after the call closure.
JERICO-S3 Transnational Access
In the frame of the JERICO-S3 EU project (2020-2024), the Transnational Access activity aims to provide coordinated ‘free of charge’ transnational access to researchers or research teams from academia and industry to SOCIB Glider Infrastructure among others. Detailed information about calls and applications is available at www.jerico-ri.eu/ta.
SOCIB Glider fleet
The present SOCIB glider fleet consists of 5 Slocum gliders and 2 iRobot Seagliders, equipped with a suite of sensors able to collect both physical (temperature and conductivity) and biogeochemical observations (chlorophyll fluorescence, oxygen, CDOM, PAR, backscatter at 700 nm and turbidity) at high spatial resolutions (~ 2 km). SOCIB has accomplished more than 130 missions, including 3.600 days in water, 40.000 nm navigated, and 137.000 vertical profiles collected.
* The maximum depends on the sampling strategy
Summary of the projects
The table summarizes the projects submitted to the SOCIB and JERICO-S3 calls in 2022, 2021 and 2020 (last update September 2022):
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CALYPSO |
* Second mission canceled due to Covid-19 restrictions
