GEORGE –scientific success-story about the collaboration between three European Research Infrastructure Consortiums (ICOS, EMSO and EURO-ARGO) developing novel tools for observational gaps and future needs.

Climate Change is the biggest environmental challenge of the 21st century. Novel sensors are needed to improve our understanding of carbonate chemistry and a concerted scientific effort to compile different requirements, such as needs to know how the carbon observations measured from various parts of the oceans differs. ICOS, EURO-ARGO and EMSO ERICs are all open and accessible world-class sustainable research infrastructures, with enhanced international cooperation that are crucial to foster innovation in the field which have joined their forces together to improve ocean carbon observations.

We will present an overview of the current progress of the GEORGE-project. We will also open discussion about some of the key concerns about the foreseeable long-term future concerns and challenges, such as the data integration, and sustainable funding of the measurement stations which will hinder the integration and implementation of these developed technologies to be an elemental part of the existing observational networks.