Platforms and sensor systems measure physical, chemical, geological and biological properties and processes from the seafloor to the air-sea interface.
OOI Updates
Pioneer Array Design: Building on the known to explore the unknown
December 9, 2019The location of the Ocean Observatories Initiative Pioneer Array has been ideal for understanding recent, unprecedented changes in temperature and ocean properties on the continental shelf and slope off the coast of New England, coincident with an increase in warm core rings at a time when the Gulf Stream has grown increasingly unstable. That’s the ...
ANNOUNCEMENT – OOI Facilities Board Town Hall at AGU – Call for Lightning Talks
October 23, 2019ANNOUNCEMENT – OOI Facilities Board Town Hall at AGU – Call for Lightning Talks
The Ocean Observatories Initiative Facilities Board (OOIFB) will host a Town Hall at the 2019 Fall AGU meeting in San Francisco, CA. The Town Hall is scheduled for Monday, December 9th from 6:15 pm to 7:15 pm at Moscone West, Room 2007, ...
OOI achieves milestone with Irminger Sea deployment
September 5, 2019The recently completed OOI mooring service cruise on the R/V Neil Armstrong (2-25 Aug 2019) established a significant milestone – the Irminger Sea Global Surface Mooring was sustained for over a year and returned high quality data. To our knowledge, this is the first surface mooring with instrumentation to compute bulk air-sea fluxes of heat, ...
Regional Cabled Array 2019 Expedition Sets Records
August 12, 2019This summer’s Regional Cabled Array (RCA) 44-day expedition (May 30-July 12, 2019) onboard the R/V Atlantis was highly successful with the completion of all tasks scheduled for this annual maintenance and operations cruise. One hundred forty-nine out of 151 RCA Core and PI instruments are operational, all three instrumented Deep Profiler vehicles and instrumented Science ...
OOI moorings provide sustained observations of the Irminger Sea Deep Western Boundary Current
July 18, 2019
Data from the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Global Irminger Sea Array contributed to the longest continuous record of total volume transport of water in the Deep Western Boundary Current. This current, in the subpolar North Atlantic, travels southwest along the continental slope off of Greenland and is considered a significant part of the global climate ...
NSF Science in the Deep with ROV Jason
June 25, 2019
NOTE: Video of this event available here. Fast forward to about 52:00 to get past the distorted audio.
The National Science Foundation will host “Science in the Deep,” a Facebook Live event with researchers aboard R/V Atlantis on Wednesday, June 26, from 1:00-2:00 p.m. Eastern. The Atlantis team will be off the coast of Oregon servicing ...
