Photo Tour: Ocean Observatories Initiative Cable Installation

The Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) program is installing the undersea cable that will link scientists and others on land to data streaming from an extensive array of next-generation sensors located in the ocean and on the seafloor, marking progress in construction of the first U.S. regional cabled ocean observatory.

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Consortium for Ocean Leadership Announces Selection of Hydroid to Provide Autonomous Underwater Vehicles for Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI)

The Consortium for Ocean Leadership (OL) and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) announced Hydroid, of Pocasset, Mass., will provide Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and docking stations to support the Pioneer Array of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI).

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Ocean Observatories Initiative Cable Connects to Bring Ocean Data to Shore

The Cables Have Landed! The OOI program has connected two undersea cables that will link scientists and others on land to data streaming from an extensive array of next-generation sensors located in the ocean and on the seafloor in the Northeast Pacific.

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Ocean Observatories Initiative Cable Landing Event, Pacific City, Oregon – July 13, 2011

The Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) program will install off the coast of Pacific City, Ore., the main undersea cable that will link scientists and others on land to data streaming from an extensive array of next generation sensors located in the ocean and on the seafloor, marking progress in construction of the first U.S. regional cabled ocean observatory.

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Consortium for Ocean Leadership Announces Selection of Teledyne Webb Research to provide Open Ocean Gliders for Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI)

Teledyne Webb Research will modify its Slocum Glider (shown above) for the open oceans component of the Ocean Observatories Initiative. (Photo provided by Teledyne Webb Research)

Teledyne Webb Research, of East Falmouth, Mass., will provide open ocean gliders supporting the Coastal and Global Scale Nodes (CGSN) of the OOI.

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Gliders 101

Rising and falling though the water column, tracing a saw-tooth path, gliders travel the ocean collecting data day and night, in fair seas and foul weather.

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Special Photo Tour: Horizontal Directional Drilling Progress at Pacific City Site

The OOI Project in February beginning installation of the power and data undersea cable at Pacific City, Oregon, for the cabled component of the OOI that ultimately will link scientists and others in the OOI user community to data streaming from observing sensors in the ocean.

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Glider Contract Awarded to Teledyne Webb Research

The Consortium for Ocean Leadership (OL) and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) announced Teledyne Webb Research, of East Falmouth, Mass., will provide coastal gliders supporting the Pioneer and Endurance Arrays of the Coastal and Global Scale Nodes (CGSN) for the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI).

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Consortium for Ocean Leadership Names Rutgers to OOI Team

The Consortium for Ocean Leadership announced Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, will join the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) to build a variety of software interfaces and web-based tools that ultimately will allow educators to bring the ocean into their learning environments.

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