Image : Scientists Gear Up to Launch Ocean Observing Networks

The Ocean Observatory Initiative would provide $309 million for new ocean observing systems and infrastructure. For instance, researchers are planning instrument arrays that combine surface and sub-surface bouys, moorings, gliders, drifters, and shipboard measurements that can monitor many complementary ocean processes. (Illustration by Jack Cook, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Image courtesy of the OceanSITES program.)

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Last updated: December 10, 2012