UKRI Covid 19 Extension Pot -EVOFLOOD

Overview

People Involved

Professor Daniel Parsons

Project Description

This UKRI project, held jointly with Durham University and National Oceanographic Centre, deployed ocean moorings with flow monitoring instruments in the Congo Canyon, offshore Africa, in 2019 but the recovery of the instruments was delayed due to the pandemic and associated changes to UKRI research ship schedules. There has thus been a 9 month delay to data from the instruments (and data which is onboard the sensors and needs downloading) arriving with us. These data arrived on 26th November 2020. With these data now in hand there is a need to extend the PDRA time on the project to ensure that the data can be processed and the objectives of the project met.

We know that a significant event - major subsea landslide and mudflow - in the canyon that occurred in January 2020. This significant deep-ocean flow ran out over 1100 km and is the largest event of its type that has ever been monitored. Two subsea communication cables were severed by the event which severely affected internet capacity across southern Africa at the start of the pandemic (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-17/african-internet-slowdown-continues-after-undersea-cables-break), resulting in urgent and costly cable repairs (one of our displaced moorings was recovered by a cable repair vessel).

Status	Project Complete
Value	£47,827.00
Project Dates	Jul 1, 2020 - Sep 30, 2021
Partner Organisations	No Partners

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