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Surfacing the hidden threats below the oceans surface
Beneath the serene surface of our offshore environments lies an escalating crisis. Climate change and geohazards pose a growing risk, threatening our vital offshore infrastructure. With the support of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions programme, the POSEIDON project brings together experts spanning European countries, universities, research institutions, industry partners, and government bodies. Together, they will offer a new generation of doctoral candidates a chance to equip themselves with the tools to identify, map, assess, and predict offshore geohazards. Their mission is to unearth innovative methods to safeguard, strengthen, and foster resilience in our offshore infrastructure, all while navigating the tumultuous waters of climate change.
POSEIDON brings together an interdisciplinary and intersectoral team to deliver a professionally trained next-generation network of Doctoral Candidates to develop a step change in our capacity to identify, map, assess and predict offshore geohazards and in turn produce ground-breaking methods to prevent, mitigate and boost the resilience of current offshore infrastructure under a changing climate. The consortium is formed by experts across EU countries with universities, research institutions, industry partners and a government body to cover a full training programme on scientific and transferable skills.
The programme will undertake critical research across scales (from micro to macro) for seeking the inner links and differences, with an eventual aim to ascertain the pathways and grow our capacity for the enhancement of the existing and the robust development of new offshore infrastructure in the frame of safety and resiliency. In addition to the informed design and implementation of the novel physical/numerical modelling and lab studies, our approach is unique in the solid integration and utilisation of state-of-the-art data science technologies (e.g. data mining, machine learning, etc.) to their full potential. Only through this systematic approach, we can achieve the objectives of understanding the impact of offshore geohazards on our offshore critical infrastructures (OCIs) and developing novel models, tools and designs for future OCIs, such as, wind turbines, pipelines and cables.
The Doctoral Candidates will enjoy a highly integrated, interdisciplinary and intersector training environment, enriched through secondments with the network of non-academics. POSEIDON enables critical learning across all training aspects to ensure that comprehensive, robust and implementable solutions are obtained and validated to face the OCIs climate-resilient building. |
