News
Job Opening with OOI RSN at UW
Friday, August 03, 2012
There is a job opening for an Electrical Engineer with the OOI RSN engineering team at the UW Applied Physics Laboratory. More information may be found here. This position will be open until filled.
GeekWire story about node installation
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
"In further news about awesome people doing awesome things, a team from the University of Washington is installing a series of nodes on the sea floor — something akin to a 'giant electrical outlet' the size of a Volkswagen Beetle — to provide Internet connectivity and power for real-time observations of the ocean." Story here in GeekWire about primary node installation.
On tsunami forecasts, greenhouse gases from the ocean floor, and living under the sea
Thursday, July 26, 2012
On tsunami forecasts, greenhouse gases from the ocean floor, and living under the sea. Q and A in MACLEANS.CA with Kate Moran, President and CEO of Ocean Networks Canada.
Underwater 'electrical outlets' put in place for cabled ocean observatory project
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
The first U.S. cabled ocean observatory reached a milestone on July 14 with the installation of a node 9,500 feet deep off the coast of Oregon. Full story in UW Today here.
Electronic eyes and ears on the ocean floor
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
The ocean has been chronically under-sampled in our scientific quest to understand and characterize its complexity. Theoretical models are no longer a good substitute for real measured data in this last frontier of unexplored and relatively uncharted part of our planet. Article on the OOI by Steve Taranovich in EDN. Full story here.
VEL3D Instruments Selected for Ocean Observatories Initiative
Thursday, July 12, 2012
The Consortium for Ocean Leadership, with funding from the National Science Foundation, has selected Nortek USA, of Boston, MA, and Nobska Development , Inc. of Woods Hole, MA, to provide 3D single point current meter (VEL3D) Instruments for the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). Full story here.
Teledyne RD Instruments to Provide Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler for OOI
Monday, July 09, 2012
The Consortium for Ocean Leadership, with funding from the National Science Foundation, has selected Teledyne RD Instruments Inc., of Poway, CA to provide Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP) Instruments for the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). Full story here.
OOI Team Launches Next Phase of Cabled Infrastructure
Thursday, July 05, 2012
The next major milestone in construction of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) program’s Regional Scale Nodes (RSN) cabled network component is scheduled for completion this summer with the installation of the primary nodes, the seven main connection points on the network for power and communications. Full story here.
Upcoming Cruise: VISIONS '12
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
A team of University of Washington OOI scientists and engineers will lead the VISIONS '12 research exepdition to the Northeast Pacific Ocean. Details and short video here.
Discover Magazine Story
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Discover Magazine's Jennifer Baronne, who sailed on Leg 1 of the VISIONS 11 expedition, writes about the OOI: Once We Wire It Up, What Will the Ocean Tell Us? A network of sensors and robots, linked by fiber-optic cables, will soon start revealing what's going on in one of the most mysterious parts of our world. Full story here.
OOI Participates in 2012 Commercial Marine Expo
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
The Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) participated in the 2012 Commercial Marine Expo to meet with representatives of the fishing community and provide information on the Pioneer Array component of the program that will operate off the New England Coast. Full story here.
Novel Scientific Equipment: The Shallow Water Profiler
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
A novel water column profiling system is under construction at the UW as part of the OOI regional cabled observatory network. Full story here.
Mapping Axial Seamount
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
A suite of three papers published this week in Nature Geoscience address the 2011 eruption at Axial Seamount. One of the papers was co-authored by OOI Regional Scale Nodes Associate Director for Science, Professor Deborah Kelley, and UW graduate student, Alden Denny. Full story here.
Axial RSN Science Workshop Talks
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
As part of the planning process for the NSF-funded Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Regional Scale Nodes (RSN) cabled observatory network at Axial Seamount, a science workshop was held in Seattle, Washington, October 5-7, 2011. A complete list of talks, many with PPT files, is posted here. A handful of the talks were re-enacted and videotaped at a later date at the University of Washington; others were re-created with audio annotation of the speaker's PPT presentation. These re-enacted versions of the talks are posted as they become available.
Butterfield, David: Overview of Axial Seamount Hydrothermal Systems
Fornari, Dan: Event Detection and Response with the RSN
Wilcock, William: Earthquake Studies at Axial Volcano
Larson, Ben: Digitizing Hydrothermal Systems
Huber, Julie: Biological Communities on and Beneath the Seafloor
Undersea Network Opens up the Ocean to All
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
"On land, scientists can continually monitor almost anything, from ecosystems and volcanoes to characteristics of the atmosphere. Under the sea, things are much more limited." New Scientist Magazine story on the OOI. Full article here.
Plastics in the Oceans
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Prior to joining the UW OOI team as a project scientist, Giora Proskurowski worked with the Sea Education Association and studied plastics in the Pacific. Proskurowski discusses the results of a paper he co-authored: Data collected from just the surface of the water commonly underestimates the total amount of plastic in the water by an average factor of 2.5. Full story (and video) here.
Marine Board Forum highlights innovation hotspots for the European marine sector.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
OOI Regional Scale Nodes Director, John Delaney, was the keynote speaker at the Marine Board Forum meeting on April 18, 2012, in Brussels, Belgium. Full story about meeting here.
Science on Commercial Telecoms Cables
Monday, February 27, 2012
Scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and engineers at NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) are in the initial discussion stages with Morristown, N.J.-based TE SubCom, a TE Connectivity Ltd. company and an industry pioneer in undersea communications technology, to integrate scientific instruments onto thousands of miles of seafloor communication cables across the Pacific Ocean. The data collected will be open and available to the global scientific community.
“This is the first time a commercial telecommunications company’s cable installations will be deployed with embedded science sensors,” said John Orcutt, a distinguished professor of geophysics at Scripps and one of the leaders of the project. “It provides us with a whole new world of capability.” Full article here.
Ocean research protects our economy - and us
Thursday, February 16, 2012
From earthquakes to global warming, studies build resilience to disaster. Editorial by Dr. Kate Moran, Director NEPTUNE Canada. Full story here.
OOI Selects Satlantic
Monday, February 13, 2012
The OOI has selected Satlantic, LP., to deliver dissolved-nitrates instruments. Full story here.
Community Group Brainstorms
Tuesday, February 07, 2012
The Nestucca Valley Community Alliance met in Pacific City, Oregon, to brainstorm local activities related to the OOI. Two representatives from the University of Washington participated. Full story here.
Cascadia Fault Earthquake Observatory
Friday, February 03, 2012
Woods Hole Oceanographic has received Keck Foundation funding for real-time seismic observatory on the Cascadia Fault. More info here.
NEPTUNE Canada Survives Setback
Thursday, February 02, 2012
Since going live in December 2009, Neptune Canada has weathered several insults, including a dangerous encounter with a trawler, but it has still produced a near-continuous stream of live data from over 125 instruments at depths of nearly 2400 meters, including deep-sea video cameras, sonars, seismometers, and robotic crawlers. Full story by Peter Fairley in IEEE Spectrum is here.
Upcoming Public Class: Understanding the Planetary Life Support System
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
John R. Delaney, OOI RSN Director and Principal Investigator and Professor of Oceanography at the University of Washington, will teach a session titled Understanding the Planetary Life Support System: Next Generation Science in the Ocean Basins as part of the Sound Waters conference on February 4, 2012 in Langley, Washington. This conference is open to the public. More information here.
