Lead institution:
Norwegian University of Science and Technology – Norway
Sailing4Science will create better ocean stewardship, enable and empower sailing professionals and citizen scientists across the world with a toolbox of both frugal innovation, and cost-effective, low power observation tools that exploit recent transformative technologies for sensors and image acquisition and processing.
Focus is on the remote, understudied coastal ocean often coinciding with SIDS or low-income coastal communities, where capacity building needs to be carefully co-designed in relation to traditional knowledge and cultural norms of each region. The co-created, crowd-sourced data is valuable alone, but the collection process will also be important for ocean literacy and awareness activities.
Start Date: 01/06/2021
End Date: 31/05/2030
Lead Contact: Murat Ardelan (murat.v.ardelan@ntnu.no)