Radioactivity in the marine environment is significantly understudied and undermeasured, despite its importance as a factor directly affecting ocean ecosystems or as a proxy in investigating numerous other phenomena of great importance across various disciplines, such as geosciences, environmental sciences, policy studies etc.
Investing on the innovative, state-of-the-art solutions offered nowadays by marine robotics, marine engineering, artificial intelligence and radiation instrumentation, RAMONES is a recently funded project by the EU H2020 FET-Proactive Action aiming to offer large-scale, autonomous, in situ monitoring of natural and artificial radioactivity in the marine environment.
A new class of prototype radiation instruments is currently under development and testing, some of which are planned to equip a fleet of autonomous underwater vehicles to offer monitoring solutions, currently in high demand by the international community. A multi-layer data framework is also designed to serve various directions of research: provide real-time data of radioactivity in the oceans, acquire information about natural and artifical hazards in the marine environment, establish a risk information system for all relevant stakeholders and the communities, support and expand dosimetric simulations and calculations to understand the impact on the ecosystem.
In this seminar, an overview of the project and its recent advances will be presented.
