Platforms and sensor systems measure physical, chemical, geological and biological properties and processes from the seafloor to the air-sea interface.
OOI Updates
Graduate Student Cruise Opportunities
February 7, 2020Opportunities abound for graduate students to have hands-on experience aboard the OOI deployment expeditions in 2020. The first opportunity is during the spring Endurance Array deployment aboard the R/V Sikuliaq. as part of the UNOLS Cruise Opportunity Program. The Endurance cruise will run from 31 March-15 April 2020, departing from and returning to Newport, Oregon. ...
OOI at Ocean Sciences Meeting
February 3, 2020OOI will have a large presence at the upcoming Ocean Sciences Meeting at the San Diego Convention Center, 16-20 February, 2020. Presenters will cover topics ranging from how OOI’s data are contributing to scientific findings, how data are being integrated into college curricula, and how equipment can be added to OOI arrays to meet research ...
ANNOUNCEMENT – OOI Facilities Board Town Hall at the 2020 Ocean Sciences Meeting – Call for Lightning Talks
January 16, 2020ANNOUNCEMENT – OOI Facilities Board Town Hall at the 2020 Ocean Sciences Meeting – Call for Lightning Talks
The Ocean Observatories Initiative Facilities Board (OOIFB) will host a Town Hall at the 2020 Ocean Sciences Meeting in San Diego, CA. The Town Hall is scheduled for Thursday, February 20th from 12:45 pm to 1:45 pm at the ...
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, ...
