News Articles with Category: Ocean Observatories Initiative
March 28, 2014 – via NOAA
Federal investment in basic research, long-term monitoring, and multi-disciplinary, applied research, will allow U.S. scientists to develop the knowledge needed to inform policy and help prepare society for rapid shifts in ocean chemistry
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October 29, 2013 – via Rutgers COOL
Data collected during Hurrican Sandy is being analyzed to increase readiness for future superstorms
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September 9, 2013 – via NOAA
‘Gliders’ collect ocean data off East Coast
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June 12, 2013 – via CMOP
CMOP is using AUVs as part of the SATURN Collaboratory to study how climate change and human stresses affect estuaries and nearby coastal waters.
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April 2, 2013 – via Coast Report
The data gathered while Tethys and Daphne are underway is sent to a satellite and can be accessed online. Google Earth can even be used to track their locations.
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February 24, 2013 – via GROOM
An important component of the European Marine Research Infrastructure will be Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and underwater gliders (UWGs)
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October 16, 2012 – via AUVA
One day “AUVs in Ocean Observation Systems” Workshop to be held the day before USYS’12 in Shah Alam, Malaysia on Dec 4, 2012.
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August 21, 2012 – via NOAA
A new committee to advise federal leaders on integrating the nation’s ocean observing systems that collect and deliver ocean information will meet for the first time later this month in Washington. The meeting will be open to the public.
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March 16, 2012 – via IOOS
The U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System launched a new asset map that displays where partner gliders are currently patrolling and where they’ve been.
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March 11, 2012 – via IOOS
The U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System launched a new asset map that displays where partner gliders are currently patrolling and where they’ve been.
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December 19, 2011 – via Arizona State University
Futuristic robots may be coming soon to an ocean near you. Sensorbots are spherical devices equipped with biogeochemical sensors, that promise to open a new chapter in the notoriously challenging exploration of earth’s largest ecosystem – the ocean.
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October 4, 2011 – via University of Washington
Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) consists of two-subsea cable networks- called Venus (inshore) and Neptune (offshore). Located off the coast of Vancouver Island, these networks entail groups of instruments linked together by fiber optic cables. The network uses the power of the Internet to bring real time observations from underwater instruments right into the offices and classrooms of researchers around the world, regardless of the weather.
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September 13, 2011 – via Cape Cod Times
By contracting with local businesses, the project is providing an economic boost to the region and the state. “We estimate, right now, just based on the work that’s already underway, that there are close to 140 companies that have in some way, shape or form benefited directly from the work that is underway at WHOI,” said Patrick Larkin, deputy director of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, which has helped provide funding for the OOI.
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September 6, 2011 – via Hydroid
Company to provide Autonomous Underwater Vehicles and docking stations for research program.
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July 8, 2011 – via Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
WHOI, an implementing organization on the OOI Program, awarded the contract for approximately $1 million to Hydroid for initial development and design modification of AUV systems to meet OOI specifications.
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July 7, 2011 – via Teledyne Webb Research
The Open Ocean Slocum G2 gliders will support the high latitude Global Arrays of the OOI.
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