The Coastal Endurance Washington Inshore Surface Mooring is located on the inner Continental Shelf, approximately 30 meters deep. The Continental Shelf-Slope area off the Washington coast is a highly productive, dynamic upwelling environment. Upwelling brings nutrients to the surface sparking primary production and fueling the food web. In recent years, upwelling has also brought onto the shelf hypoxic, low oxygen, waters that can be harmful to organisms in the area. By sampling in this area, the OOI seeks to gain better insight into upwelling dynamics of this system.

Like other coastal moorings, the Coastal Endurance Washington Inshore Surface Mooring is specifically designed to examine coastal-scale phenomena and withstand the challenging conditions of shallow coastal environments, including large tidal fluctuations. The Surface Mooring contains instruments attached to a Surface Buoy floating on the sea surface, Near Surface Instrument Frame 7 meters below the surface, and a Seafloor Multi-Function Node (MFN) located on the seafloor. The Surface Buoy provides a platform on which to secure surface instruments above the sea surface, below the sea surface, and across the interface between. Additionally the Surface Buoy contains an antenna to transmit data to shore via satellite.

Instruments

This site includes following instruments. To learn more about an instrument type, select its name on the left. To see the relevant data streams for a particular instrument, select the instrument code in the first column which will take you to the OOI Data Portal.

Instrument Depth Node Instrument
Class-Series
Make & Model
CE06ISSM-SBD17-01-MOPAK0000 0m Surface Buoy 3-Axis Motion Pack (MOPAK0) MicroStrain - 3DM-GX3-25
CE06ISSM-SBD17-00-DCLENG000 0m Surface Buoy Data Concentrator Logger (DCL) (DCLENG) WHOI - Data Concentrator Logger
CE06ISSM-SBC11-00-CPMENG000 0m Surface Buoy Platform Controller (CPMENG) WHOI - Communications and Power Manager
CE06ISSM-SBD17-06-FLORTD000 1m Surface Buoy 3-Wavelength Fluorometer (FLORTD) WET Labs - ECO Triplet-w
CE06ISSM-SBD17-06-CTDBPC000 1m Surface Buoy CTD (CTDBPC) Sea-Bird - SBE 16plusV2
CE06ISSM-SBD17-04-VELPTA000 1m Surface Buoy Single Point Velocity Meter (VELPTA) Nortek - Aquadopp 300m
CE06ISSM-RID16-02-FLORTD000 7m Near Surface Instrument Frame 3-Wavelength Fluorometer (FLORTD) WET Labs - ECO Triplet-w
CE06ISSM-RID16-03-CTDBPC000 7m Near Surface Instrument Frame CTD (CTDBPC) Sea-Bird - SBE 16plusV2
CE06ISSM-RID16-00-DCLENG000 7m Near Surface Instrument Frame Data Concentrator Logger (DCL) (DCLENG) WHOI - Data Concentrator Logger
CE06ISSM-RID16-03-DOSTAD000 7m Near Surface Instrument Frame Dissolved Oxygen (DOSTAD) Aanderaa - Optode 4831
CE06ISSM-RID16-07-NUTNRB000 7m Near Surface Instrument Frame Nitrate (NUTNRB) Satlantic - ISUS
CE06ISSM-RID16-05-PCO2WB000 7m Near Surface Instrument Frame pCO2 Water (PCO2WB) Sunburst - SAMI-pCO2
CE06ISSM-RID16-06-PHSEND000 7m Near Surface Instrument Frame Seawater pH (PHSEND) Sunburst - SAMI-pH
CE06ISSM-RID16-04-VELPTA000 7m Near Surface Instrument Frame Single Point Velocity Meter (VELPTA) Nortek - Aquadopp 300m
CE06ISSM-RID16-08-SPKIRB000 7m Near Surface Instrument Frame Spectral Irradiance (SPKIRB) Satlantic - OCR507 ICSW
CE06ISSM-RID16-01-OPTAAD000 7m Near Surface Instrument Frame Spectrophotometer (OPTAAD) WET Labs - AC-S
CE06ISSM-MFD35-01-VEL3DD000 29m Seafloor Multi-Function Node (MFN) 3-D Single Point Velocity Meter (VEL3DD) Nortek - VECTOR
CE06ISSM-MFD37-07-ZPLSCC000 29m Seafloor Multi-Function Node (MFN) Bio-acoustic Sonar (Coastal) (ZPLSCC) ASL Environmental Sciences - AZFP
CE06ISSM-MFD37-03-CTDBPC000 29m Seafloor Multi-Function Node (MFN) CTD (CTDBPC) Sea-Bird - SBE 16plusV2
CE06ISSM-MFD35-00-DCLENG000 29m Seafloor Multi-Function Node (MFN) Data Concentrator Logger (DCL) (DCLENG) WHOI - Data Concentrator Logger
CE06ISSM-MFD37-00-DCLENG000 29m Seafloor Multi-Function Node (MFN) Data Concentrator Logger (DCL) (DCLENG) WHOI - Data Concentrator Logger
CE06ISSM-MFD37-06-CAMDSA000 29m Seafloor Multi-Function Node (MFN) Digital Still Camera (CAMDSA) Kongsberg - Modified OE14-408
CE06ISSM-MFD37-03-DOSTAD000 29m Seafloor Multi-Function Node (MFN) Dissolved Oxygen (DOSTAD) Aanderaa - Optode 4831
CE06ISSM-MFD35-05-PCO2WB000 29m Seafloor Multi-Function Node (MFN) pCO2 Water (PCO2WB) Sunburst - SAMI-pCO2
CE06ISSM-MFC31-00-CPMENG000 29m Seafloor Multi-Function Node (MFN) Platform Controller (CPMENG) WHOI - Communications and Power Manager
CE06ISSM-MFD35-02-PRESFA000 29m Seafloor Multi-Function Node (MFN) Seafloor Pressure (PRESFA) Sea-Bird - SBE 26plus
CE06ISSM-MFD35-06-PHSEND000 29m Seafloor Multi-Function Node (MFN) Seawater pH (PHSEND) Sunburst - SAMI-pH
CE06ISSM-MFD37-01-OPTAAD000 29m Seafloor Multi-Function Node (MFN) Spectrophotometer (OPTAAD) WET Labs - AC-S
CE06ISSM-MFD35-04-ADCPTM000 29m Seafloor Multi-Function Node (MFN) Velocity Profiler (600kHz) (ADCPTM) Teledyne RDI - WorkHorse Sentinel 600khz