The Advanced Engineering Laboratory is made up of engineers and technical support personnel who work with scientists to develop oceanographic instrumentation. Instruments such as buoys to measure meteorological data, sensors for underwater navigation, whale tagging devices, and the Autonomous Benthic Explorer (ABE) have been designed at AEL. Ongoing projects include ULTRAMOOR, a subsurface mooring prototype that supports an acoustic current meter array, and monitoring of instruments at the Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MVCO) and the Bermuda Biological Station. » Visit web site
The Coastal and Ocean Fluid Dynamics Laboratory focuses on oceanic processes affecting circulation and transport of sediment, the exchange of heat and momentum across the air-water interface, and dispersal of organisms within the ocean layers. Lab members study coastal and estuarine processes, the surface and bottom boundary layers of the ocean, and mixing in the ocean interior. » Visit web site
The Deep Submergence Lab develops systems for remote, unmanned exploration of the ocean depths and is the home of remotely-operated vehicles and instruments ARGO, ABE, Jason/Medea, and the DSL-120 sonar sled. DSL also maintains a test-bed underwater vehicle and test tank facility for research in underwater vehicle dynamics and control. » Visit website
Members of the Instrument Systems Development Lab work to create hardware and software solutions for ongoing science projects. Current projects include developing autonomous acoustic data acquisition systems, ocean bottom seismometry instrumentation, and radio telemetry techniques for use with buoy systems. Another major project, called V-moor, utilizes the knowledge of scientists and engineers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Rhode Island to use acoustic signals to monitor and characterize water mass flow patterns for a variety of environmental purposes. » Visit website
Research concentrates on the use of acoustics to measure ocean properties, temperature, and to detect biological and geological objects in the ocean. Ocean acoustic tomography, shallow water acoustic propagation, and acoustic scattering in the ocean from zooplankton are studied. A current project is the Asian Sea International Acoustics Experiment (ASIAEx), which is a scientific collaboration between the United States, the Peoples Republic of China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Russia, and Singapore focusing on acoustic bottom reverberation and cross-shelf propagation. Other projects include acoustic monitoring of sediment transport off the California and New Jersey coasts. » Visit website
The Oceanographic Systems Laboratory is made up of several engineers who work with scientists to develop complex ocean systems including the Long-Term Environmental Observatory (LEO-15) and the Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MVCO). Ocean monitoring devices such as the Remote Environmental Monitoring UnitS (REMUS) and the Towed Oceanographic Survey System (TOSS) were developed by OSL personnel. » Visit website
New concepts for buoys, moorings, cable systems, and offshore aquaculture technology are developed at the Ocean Systems and Moorings Laboratory. Computer analysis is used to model the response of buoy mooring systems to wind, waves, and currents. Critical mooring hardware is tested either in the laboratory or at sea in the WHOI "Buoy Farm" located in unprotected waters 25 nm southwest of Woods Hole. Current work includes designing and building coastal mooring systems, trawlproof bottom sensor mounts, and autonomous data buoys. A combination of reinforced custom designed rubber stretch hoses with compliant internal coilcords has also been developed as new hardware. This combination provides a reliable electrical path between a surface buoy and its instrumented mooring tether, eliminating the frequent failure of other approaches. » ONR/MTS Buoy Workshop Last updated: October 9, 2009 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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