Beginning Monday, May 21st the OOI will be hosting an Early Career Data Workshop that will involve numerous concurrent data requests by participants. Please be advised that due to this increased load on the system data request fulfillment may be slower than normal. We recommend that, when possible, large data requests be delayed until after the workshop. Please contact the Help Desk with any questions.added 2018-05-15, 10:07 EDT

The OOI uncabled data ERDDAP server is currently offline due to server issues. Investigation is ongoing, and the server should be back up shortly. added 2018-05-09, 10:36 EDT

Due to glider maintenance delays, there are currently very few OOI gliders deployed and delivering live data. The maintenance issues have been largely resolved, and more gliders will be deployed over the late Spring and Summer, building back up to the full complement of gliders in the OOI design baseline. added 2018-04-20, 15:12 EDT

OOI Updates

Join Us at the OOI Deep Ocean Observing Workshop

May 16, 2018

On August 27-29, 2018, an Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Deep Ocean Observing Workshop will be held in Seattle, WA. This workshop will provide an interdisciplinary forum to develop deep ocean science questions and identify societal needs that could be addressed using the existing OOI infrastructure. The workshop will provide an opportunity for participants to gather detailed ...

Exciting conversations on a multitude of topics happened around the room during the hacking sessions. Credit: Valentina Staneva, eScience, UW

Cabled Array Hack Week: a collaborative setting to explore big ocean data

May 1, 2018

“The size and complexity of ocean data is growing beyond the capacity of what one person and one computer can handle. We need to be thinking of collaborative, cloud-based tools to really explore the capacity of these data.” Friedrich Knuth, Cabled Array Hackweek organizer

Collaborations across the North Atlantic – Reflections on the 2017 Irminger Sea Regional Science Workshop

April 12, 2018

Late last year, more than 30 researchers from countries spanning the Atlantic met in Southampton, UK at the National Oceanography Centre to foster coordination of research efforts focused on the Irminger Sea region. Of central importance to the workshop was to bring in young investigators. “The Irminger Sea workshop provided me with an incredibly valuable opportunity ...

Join us in the Oceanhackweek 2018 to explore Data Science in Oceanography!

April 6, 2018

Please join us at the Oceanhackweek 2018, August 20-24, 2018, at the University of Washington, Seattle, in collaboration with the UW eScience Institute. This 5-day hands-on workshop is aimed at exploring, creating and promoting effective computation and analysis workflows for large and complex oceanographic data. The focus will be on data provided by the National ...

[OOI in the News] The Economist – Gliders on the storm

March 21, 2018

(From The Economist / Technology Quarterly) From sharks to ice shelves, monsoons to volcanoes, the scope of ocean monitoring is widening. IN NOVEMBER 2016 a large crack appeared in the Larsen C ice shelf off Antarctica (pictured). By July 2017 a chunk a quarter of the size of Wales, weighing one trillion tonnes, broke off from the ...

[Science Highlight] Nature Climate Change Article Highlights OOI Irminger Sea Data

March 15, 2018

Check out the recently published paper in Nature Climate Change focusing on the Irminger Sea: Increased risk of a shutdown of ocean convection posed by warm North Atlantic summers Marilena Oltmanns*, Johannes Karstensen and Jürgen Fischer Abstract: A shutdown of ocean convection in the subpolar North Atlantic, triggered by enhanced melting over Greenland, is regarded as a potential ...