Design and construction of a probe for continuous monitoring of dissolved CO2 in seawater from a sailboat or a small ship (SENSE-pCO2)
The project in a nutshell:
Continuous monitoring of dissolved CO2 in shallow seawater is crucial to understanding how much the oceans will absorb anthropogenic CO2 in the future (around 25% today).
Current measurements usually depend on costly instruments onboard Argo floats or buoys, or complex sensors on large ships, strongly limiting the spatial and temporal coverage of key areas.
At the SENSE lab, in collaboration with SailowTech, we aim to develop smart and affordable sensors capable of being deployed with “citizen-science fleets”. We focus on designing a sailboat-compatible probe to reliably measure pCO2.
Team members
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- Jérôme Chappellaz , Professor, EPFL, jerome.chappellaz@epfl.ch
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- Yanis Mouzaoui, Master Student, EPFL, yanis.mouzaoui@epfl.ch
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- Alexandre Tellier, Engineer, Sailowtech, alexandre.tellier@sailowtech.ch
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- Bénédicte Lunven, VP Science, Sailowtech, vp.science@sailowtech.ch
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- Hugo Cruz, Technician & Data analyst, EPFL, Technician & Data analyst, EPFL
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- Sébastien Lavanchy, Field and R&D Engineer, sebastien.lavanchy@epfl.ch
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