Ocean monitoring - Strengthening coastal resilience

The problem

Coastal ecosystems are under pressure from nutrient run-off, climate-driven shifts, and biomass production.

Governments and regulators already deploy a variety of sensors, but continuous biological data is missing that is able to identify threats like invasive species.

How we’re solving it

FP Aqua provides real-time biological monitoring through automated underwater microscopy.

By detecting marine biodiversity, we can fill critical data gaps for ecosystem management and policy-making.

What this means for stakeholders

Higher-frequency biological data than manual sampling.

Snow-covered mountains seen from a body of water with floating fish farms in the foreground.

Scalable from local projects to national monitoring networks.

Numerous small, translucent jellyfish floating in a dark blue water tank.

A tool for more accurate environmental impact assessments and forecasting.

View of a boat deck with a light, ropes, and equipment, with water visible in the background.

Opportunities to integrate with existing sensor networks and platforms.

Future opportunities

Partnerships with monitoring institutions could enable continuous plankton surveillance along the Norwegian coast and beyond.

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