Ocean Observatories
Live From the Tropics, It’s an Ocean Network
With a click of his computer mouse, Scott Gallager was swimming with the fishes off the west coast of Panama. Virtual reality? Well, the fish, corals, and currents are real; […]
What Could a Tsunami Network Look Like in the Future?
The Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting (DART) system is battle-tested and operational, so it makes sense…
The New Wave of Coastal Ocean Observing
Estuaries are the borderlands between salt and freshwater environments, and they are incredibly diverse both…
Seeding the Seafloor with Observatories
Scientists extend their reach into the deep with pioneering undersea cable networks H2O (Hawaii-2 Observatory)…
Seeding the Oceans with Observatories
Ship-borne expeditions have been the dominant means of exploring the oceans in the 20th century.…
A Well Sampled Ocean
Unlike the oceans, the sky is relatively visible and accessible to us. But in the…
NEPTUNE: A Fiber-Optic ‘Telescope’ to Inner Space
NEPTUNE is a proposed system of high-speed fiber- optic submarine cables linking a series of…
Seafloor to Surface to Satellite to Shore
The next great leap in our understanding of the earth-ocean system will require us to…
Plugging the Seafloor with CORKs
Hidden beneath the seafloor throughout most of the world's oceans lies a massive, dynamic plumbing…
Outposts in the Ocean
Oceanographers and climatologists have something in common with politicians and stock market analysts: They are…
New Coastal Observatory Is Born
The Martha's Vineyard Observatory will have sensors mounted on two seafloor nodes, at depths of…
Putting H2O in the Ocean
A major obstacle impeding our ability to understand many of the earth's fundamental, ongoing dynamics--quite…
Ocean Seismic Network Seafloor Observatories
Our knowledge of the physical characteristics of Earth’s deep interior is based largely on observations…