News 55 - Ocean Observatories Initiative

Request for Quotations (RFQ) – Procurement Support – CLOSED

By ooistaff | June 14, 2010 |

The bidder shall assist Ocean Leadership in analyzing project needs relative to technical specifications and Requests for Proposals (RFP) production

WHOI RFP: Coastal Gliders – CLOSED

By ooistaff | June 6, 2010 |

This is the first of a series of RFP’s WHOI will be issuing over the next few months in support of OOI. As stated in the cover memo, to receive consideration, please provide a statement of interest via e-mail to the WHOI Contracting Officer no later than 5 PM EST, February 22nd, 2010.

WHOI RFP: Open Ocean Gliders – CLOSED

By ooistaff | June 6, 2010 |

This is the second in a series of RFPs WHOI will be issuing over the next few months in support of OOI. As stated in the cover memo, to receive consideration, please provide a statement of interest via e-mail to the WHOI Contracting Officer no later than 5 PM EST, March 1, 2010.

WHOI RFP: AUV and Dock – CLOSED

By ooistaff | June 5, 2010 |

This is the third in a series of RFPs WHOI will be issuing over the next few months in support of OOI. As stated in the cover memo, to receive consideration, please provide a statement of interest via e-mail to the WHOI Contracting Officer no later than 5 PM EDT, April 30th, 2010.

RFQ: Procurement Support – CLOSED

By ooistaff | June 5, 2010 |

The bidder shall assist Ocean Leadership in analyzing project needs relative to technical specifications and Requests for Proposals (RFP) production as described in the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) primary project scope documents, schedules and contracts.

RFP: Educations & Public Engagement Implementing Organization – CLOSED

By ooistaff | June 5, 2010 |

The Consortium for Ocean Leadership is pleased to offer this Request for Proposals (RFPs) to support the development and implementation of the Education and Public Engagement (EPE) Implementing Organization (IO) within the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI).

An Update From the Program Director

By ooistaff | May 15, 2010 |

On March 1, 2010, we completed the first six months of the five-year construction phase of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). We’ve been tackling all the key ‘start-up’ steps of a new program, including increasing staff levels across the program, getting several major contracts in place, introducing scientists and educators to the capabilities of the OOI, while working to complete the Year 1 construction milestones. As you will learn on this website, and through the supporting documents, the OOI will deliver data to address a multitude of important science and societal questions, including those centering around climate change, ecosystem health, ocean acidification and carbon cycling. This will be accomplished through an innovative network of sensors measuring physical, biological, chemical and geological processes from the air-sea interface to the ocean floor.

The OOI infrastructure is being built with support from the National Science Foundation, under the Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction (MREFC) funding stream, which includes $105.93 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). We began the first official project year in September 2009 and will continue construction through 2014. We expect some portions of the network to provide sustained data by late 2012, with full network capability by late 2014. Many additional details are available in the web pages and links below this section, and more details will follow as construction progresses.

Although the OOI Project Team is building the system, the sustained data streams and data products of the OOI will not belong to the OOI Project Team, they will belong to you, whether you are a scientist, a student, an educator, or an interested citizen. Learn how to get involved as the system takes shape over the next few years! (more…)

US-Canada Partnership Expands Innovative Ocean Research

By ooistaff | March 11, 2010 |

US-Canada collaboration on ocean research takes a major step forward today as Robert Gagosian, president and CEO of Consortium for Ocean Leadership, and Martin Taylor, president and CEO of Ocean Networks Canada, sign a Memorandum of Understanding pledging to work closely together as they manage and operate world-leading ocean observing systems.