CV16030 Rockall OBS network retrieval survey

Geophysics Rockall survey in the North Atlantic Ocean. — to monitor part of the Irish Shelf area from local Earthquakes (it is Ireland 's most seismically active region but has never been Locally monitored so we do not have a well constrained understanding of seismic activity offshore) — to determine the effects of the Shelf break on microseism propagation from the deep ocean to the Shelf areas and onto land. (Through very recent methodological developments Microseisms — ocean wave generated seismic wave in the solid earth — can now be used for seismic imagery but there are still a lot of details to better understand before the methodology is standard. We are ideally positioned to undertake this work in Ireland as the NE Atlantic is a microseism hotspot generation area) — to generate pilot sub-surface seismic images using microseisms along the deployed OBS profile, as a pilot demonstration of the strong potential of this work in environmentally neutral offshore imagery. — to further constrain development of microseisms from the ocean wave height proxy.