OGS is participating in the MREA07 and LASIE07 experiments in the Ligurian Sea during May-June 2007 in collaboration with other Italian and international institutions and, in particular, with the NATO Undersea Research Centre (NURC).

As part of MREA07 and LASIE07, OGS is deploying surface drifters to monitor the surface currents in both the open sea (deployments in the vicinity of the ODAS buoy) and the coastal areas (outside the Gulf of La Spezia). All drifters are of the CODE type. They are equipped with GPS receiver to measure their location, and their data are telemetered through the Argos satellite system the cellular phone network (GSM/GPRS) for the open sea and coastal units, respectively. They are deployed in clusters of 5 units (in a cross-shaped array with dimension 500 m) to investigate dispersion properties at the sea surface.

During LASIE07, OGS is operating his SLOCUM 200 m glider, called TRIESTE-1, to measure temperature, salinity, oxygen, turbidity and chlorophyll fluorescence between 200 m depth and the surface, along a transect aligned between the ODAS buoy and the Gulf of La Spezia.