ACTOMtoolbox/Code: ACTOM Decision Support Tool

We strongly encourage everyone downloading and using the DST code to register as a user by filling a short registration form here: https://forms.office.com/e/ZJcDquaxGi. We'd love to get a better understanding of who is using the DST and for what applications, as it will help us to provide the best support to the user community and allows us to demonstrate (anonymised) use metrics to our funders. It will also allow you to receive information and news on any updates.

The ACTOM Decision Support Tool enables operators of offshore geological carbon storage sites to plan effective environmental monitoring, whilst minimizing cost. The toolbox enables the operator to explore different sensitivity thresholds and determines an optimal sensor deployment strategy, based on local hydrodynamics and seabed features. The DST can quantifiably assess that a proposed monitoring strategy delivers an acceptable standard of assurance for stakeholders.

The toolbox can be applied to any offshore shelf sea site and uses generic algorithms driven by readily available site-specific information. The toolbox is coded using a docker container enabling its use on multiple computational platforms.

The DST can: Enable regulators to quantifiably assess that a proposed monitoring strategy delivers an acceptable standard of assurance. Enable operators to properly plan, cost and adapt monitoring strategies to site specific circumstances, hence accelerate the planning phase and implementation. Enable regulators and operators to communicate to the effectiveness of proposed monitoring strategies to enable informed societal consensus in view of marine spatial planning.

Docker images can be found on Dockerhub: https://hub.docker.com/u/actomtoolbox

To run the codes it is advised to use one of the methods that best fits your needs from the main GitHub page https://github.com/ACTOMtoolbox

The Decision Support Tool is open source and can be freely downloaded from https://github.com/ACTOMtoolbox, which also includes documentation and instructions. If used independently the developers accept no liability relating to the use of the DST.

The toolbox developers, an academic / R&D consortium based in the UK, Norway, Netherlands and US would be delighted to discuss providing a service using the DST, please contact one or more of:

UK: Jerry Blackford jcb@pml.ac.uk

Norway: Guttorm Alendal Guttorm.Alendal@uib.no

NL: Stefan Carpentier stefan.carpentier@tno.nl

USA: Katherine Romanak, katherine.romanak@beg.utexas.edu and/or Rajesh Pawar, rajesh@lanl.gov