Photo Tour: Primary Node Installation

The Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) program’s Regional Scale Nodes (RSN) team completed a significant construction milestone in August with installation of the primary nodes for the cabled component of the OOI infrastructure in the Northeast Pacific Ocean.

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OOI Primary Node Installation Completed in Northeast Pacific Ocean

The Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) program’s Regional Scale Nodes (RSN) team completed a significant construction milestone in August with installation of the primary nodes for the cabled component of the OOI infrastructure in the Northeast Pacific Ocean.

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Dockside Primary Node Testing

In preparation for OOI RSN primary node deployment in summer 2012, tests of rigging configurations took place on April 17 and 18, 2012 dockside at Swan Island in Portland, Oregon.

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Design and Build: Temperature-Resistivity Probe

Work began in January 2012 on the design and build of the Ocean Observatories Initiative’s Regional Scale Nodes’ first Core Non-Commercial instrument: a temperature-resistivity probe that will collect data from fluids emerging from seafloor hotsprings in the caldera at Axial Seamount, located at a water depth of ~1500 m (4921 ft).

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Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Completes Installation of Undersea Cable

The OOI program in September completed installation of the 540 miles of undersea fiber optic cable that will link scientists and others on land to data streaming from an extensive array of OOI next generation sensors located in the ocean and on the sea floor.

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Pacific City Community Embraces OOI Addition to the Neighborhood

As the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) undersea cable connected the ocean to shore last week in Pacific City, Ore., local residents came out to support the program and embrace the opportunities the OOI program represents for all users of the ocean in that unique coastal community.

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