Physical Oceanografy Working group Calypso project - conference Catania 29 - 30 Oct 2012

Hf Radar - Calypso project 4th Meeting Hf Radar monitoring system and response against marine oil spills in the Malta Channel Catania 29 – 30 Oct 2012

- Lunedi 29 Oct 2012 si presenta CALYPSO Project SeaSonde Network: ad Autorità, associazioni ambientaliste e Comunità locali

- Progetto Italia-Malta – politica di coesione 2007-2013 - Calypso in ambito 4th Meeting Hf Radar monitoring system and response against marine oil spills in the Malta Channel

- auditorium della Città della Scienza CATANIA
(ingresso da via Scuto Costarelli 65)

org. Event : Cutgana Università di Catania in collab. con Università di Palermo (Polo Territoriale Universitario della Provincia di Trapani).

- Open event rettore Università di Catania - Antonino Recca, e direttore Cutgana - Maria Carmela Failla.
///// Relazioni di :
• Angelo Messina (Resp. scientifico progetto per il Cutgana),
• Aldo Drago (coord. Progetto - Università di Malta),
• Giuseppe Ciraolo (Sicilian focal point - Università Palermo),
• Fulvio Capodici Università di Palermo su : Funzionamento system Hf per il monitoraggio delle correnti marine
• Simone Consoli di Ogs Trieste Risultati preliminari delle misure del Canale di Sicilia
• i referenti di Capitaneria di Porto

//// Calypso projet consiste nella realizzazione di un sistema stabile ed operativo di antenne HF-Radar per il monitoraggio delle correnti marine superficiali nel Canale di Sicilia con lo scopo di fornire dati continui utili ad ottimizzare gli interventi in caso di eventi di sversamenti di idrocarburi accidentali e deliberati.

• il progetto punta, inoltre, ad instaurare contatti tra le Autorità Maltesi e Siciliane, responsabili per la sorveglianza e la sicurezza in mare ed a disegnare piani comuni per operazioni ed interventi congiunti e coordinati in caso di emergenza, soprattutto quella derivante dalla perdita di petrolio.

- Adesso le Autorità competenti fornite di nuove tecnologie per osservazioni e previsioni marine di routine al fine di migliorare la risposta in caso di pericolo marino, il controllo dello spazio marittimo oltre frontiera e l’efficienza della sicurezza in mare.

//// installazioni previste in area portuale di POZZALLO (Ragusa) in via di definizione - completa il sistema composto da altri 2 impianti collocati nella parte nord di Malta ed in Isola di Gozo (Malta) già presenti.

/// Progetto realizzato in partnership - composta da:
• University of Malta (Physical Oceanografy Unit IOI – Malta Operational Centre), • Authority for Transport in Malta,
• Armed Forces of Malta,
• Civil Protection Department of Malta,
• Università di Palermo (Polo Territoriale Universitario di Provincia di Trapani),
• Arpa Sicilia, Università di Catania (Cutgana, centro interdipart. ricerca d’Ateneo),
• Cnr - Ist. Ambiente Marino Costiero UOS di Capo Granitola – Mazara del Vallo (Trapani)
www.iamc.cnr.it

//// CATANIA 30 Oct 2012 ////

Working group Calypso project - conference in sede Cutgana San Gregorio di Catania, via Terzora 8


CALYPSO Project SeaSonde Network: Improving Oil Spill Response Using HF Radar in the Malta-Sicily Channel

Three SeaSondes will soon be providing realtime surface current maps in the strip of sea dividing Malta and Sicily, for the CALYPSO Project, coord. by Prof. Aldo Drago from the University of Malta.

Two units have already been installed and commissioned on northern Malta (Ta’Barkat and Ta’Sopu), with the final unit scheduled for installation in late October 2012 in southern Sicily (Port of Pozzallo).

The CALYPSO radar network also includes latest technology to extend the coverage performance with use of Multi-Static Data Processing Software at one of the sites in Malta.

This is intended to extend the area of coverage closer to the Maltese coastline as well as to add redundancy in the conventional backscatter region, thereby increasing current measurement robustness.

The network is managed using a state-of-the-art data management platform, which consists of the CODAR Central Management - Data Combining Station and the PORTUS by QUALITAS Marine Information System, providing data retrieval and combining from the radar stations, access to all SeaSonde data outputs (offline or through a web based viewer), powerful data sharing tools like OPEnDAP, ftp or WMS as well as advanced tools for system administration, monitoring and reporting.

CALYPSO primary aim is to support efficient response against marine oil spills in the Malta-Sicily Channel, that is one of the busiest areas of maritime transportation in the Mediterranean, accounting for roughly twenty percent of the world’s oil tanker traffic.

An oil spill accident may cause a devastating damage to a small island state like Malta where economic assets and areas of touristic attraction are concentrated in space. Malta’s water desalinization plants are among the most vulnerable to oil spill objects since they provide the country’s major source of fresh water.

The routine acquisition of such spatially widespread, long-term data sets is expected to trigger an unprecedented leap in the economic value of ocean data and information, and will additionally target multiple applications and information users.
This project puts Malta and Sicily at the forefront of such initiatives in the Mediterranean and will serve as a stepping stone to expand the system in the future for coverage of the full marine space around the Maltese Islands and the Sicilian perimeter.

CALYPSO brings together three other partners from Malta - Transport Malta, Civil Protection Department and Armed Forces of Malta – and four partners from Sicily – ARPA Sicilia, IAMC-CNR Capo Granitola, Università degli Studi di Palermo (UNIPA) and Università di Catania (CUTGANA). Spanish engineering company Qualitas Remos has been awarded the contract for radar supply, installation, commission and calibration.

More information about this project at


oceania.research.um.edu.mt/cms/calypsoweb

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