European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water column Observatory
- Name: European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water column Observatory
- Alternative Name: EMSO
- Specification URI: http://emso.eu/what-is-emso/
- Type: consortium
- Disciplines: Oceanography
- Keywords: shared facilities, research infrastructure
- Description: EMSO is a consortium of partners sharing in a common strategic framework scientific facilities (data, instruments, computing and storage capacity). Formally it is a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), legal framework created for pan-European large-scale research infrastructures.