Thousands of young aspiring scientists and oceanographers and their families and teachers got a hands-on lesson on how to measure ocean properties at the OOI Exhibit during the 2012 USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C., on April 28-29.

Members of the OOI Team led visitors, ranging in all ages, through a hands-on data collection and measurement experiment to get a glimpse of what information and data will be available with the OOI.  Many of the visitors were excited about the OOI and were amazed by what a step forward it represents in our ability to study and understand the ocean. Click here for more Information and Photos of the OOI at the USA Science & Engineering Festival.

Earlier in the month, members of the OOI Team conducted an outreach event at a local elementary school near Washington, D.C., allowing students to dive to the deepest depths of the ocean, explore the continental shelves and learn about data collection.

Though just learning the basics of ocean science in their classroom today, these young students could be the users of OOI data that will be available for a 25-30 year plus time period.  The idea of learning about the deepest depths of the ocean and using robotic instruments to collect scientific data on the ocean seemed to fascinate the young ocean enthusiasts who had more than enough questions of their own.

Leslie Smith, a University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography alumnus who works in communications for the OOI Program at the Consortium for Ocean Leadership, gave the 100 students attending the event an overview on the global oceans as a start to their ocean science curriculum for this year and an introduction to the OOI. She encouraged the young audience that they too could someday become oceanographers if they work hard at their math and science now.

Linking the real world to the classroom, the presentation focused on highlighting many state-mandated standards of learning as a preview to provide interesting examples of concepts from someone who works in the field. The students were particularly impressed when Smith showed a Styrofoam cup that had been sent down 1,000 meters in the Sargasso Sea causing it to be shrink to about a quarter of its original size from the pressure of the dive.

These outreach events are just a few of the many taking place across the OOI program as program scientists and engineers reach out to educators and students in various communities.

To learn more about the OOI please continue to visit the OOI Website and OOI Facebook and Twitter accounts for event coverage.

(Click to enlarge) RSN primary node on deck of TE SubCom Dependable during dockside deployment testing on April 18, 2012 in Portland, Oregon. (Photo by Brian Ittig)

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.

The seven primary nodes on the RSN system are terminal points on the main, or backbone, cable, that distribute power (8 kilowatts) and bandwidth (10 Gbits/second) to the secondary infrastructure (sensors, instruments, lower-voltage nodes, full water-column moorings, and wet-mateable connectors for remotely operated vehicles).

One of the primary nodes built by L-3 Maripro, the OOI RSN prime contractor, was offloaded from a flatbed truck on the Swan Island dock and onto the fantail of the cableship TE SubCom Dependable, the commercial telecommunications cableship that will be used to install the primary nodes in July and August 2012. The C.S. Dependable is the same vessel that was involved in the installation of the Regional Scale Nodes primary cable in summer 2011.

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(Click to enlarge) Megan Gibney and Adam Anderson of the Ocean Observatories Initiative Program demonstrate how measure salinity in ocean samples for visitors interested in the OOI's data collection capabilities at the 2012 USA Science & Engineering Festival. (Credit: OOI Program Office Communications)

Thousands of young aspiring scientists and oceanographers and their families and teachers got a hands-on lesson on how to measure ocean properties at the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Exhibit during the 2012 USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C., last week.

Members of the OOI Team led visitors, ranging in all ages, through a hands-on data collection and measurement experiment to get a glimpse of what information and data will be available with the OOI.  Many of the visitors were excited about the OOI and were amazed by what a revolutionary step it represents in our ability to study and understand the ocean. Those who participated in the experiment measured some ocean parameters, including temperature and salinity, from water samples using real scientific equipment. This outreach event is one of many taking place across the OOI program as program scientists and engineers reach out to educators, students and the general public in various communities.

Click here to learn more about the  USA Science & Engineering Festival. To learn more about the OOI please continue to visit the OOI Website and OOI Facebook and Twitter accounts for event coverage.

A successful production readiness review makes it possible for the vendor to move forward with production of the gliders. There will be a total of 24 gliders in operation on the east and west coast. One of the most significant events for the program this year is the initiation of glider operations for the Coastal Global Scale Node (CGSN) part of the program.

Teledyne Webb Research, of East Falmouth, Mass., is providing coastal gliders supporting the Pioneer and Endurance Arrays of the CGSN component of the OOI. Click here to read more about the Coastal Gliders.

Gliders are autonomous underwater vehicles that use buoyancy propulsion to travel through the ocean gathering data on ocean physical, bio-optical, and chemical properties such as temperature, salinity, chlorophyll and dissolved oxygen. Their missions will last up to three months during which they will travel up to 1800 km.  While employed, they will relay their data to shore via satellite telemetry.

These “Slocum” gliders will aid the transformational nature of the OOI by enabling continuous monitoring at the coastal Pioneer and Endurance Arrays, allowing near real time series data from remote locations. The data they collect will enhance that collected by fixed buoys, and the glider’s satellite telemetry system will allow the vehicles to relay their data to shore.  This communication ability enables scientists to alter the vehicle’s mission instructions for adaptive sampling in response to events in the ocean.

Coastal gliders are modular and are designed with the ability to maneuver and operate where the total water depth is as little as 30 meters and to sample to 1000 m in deep waters adjacent to the coast. The OOI coastal gliders will operate south of New England as part of the Pioneer Array and off the Pacific Northwest as part of the Endurance array.

In other program news,  Satlantic, LP., of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, has been selected to  provide Dissolved Nitrates (NUTNR) Instruments for the OOI. Under the $900,000 contract, Satlantic will provide up to 28 NUTNR instruments.

Satlantic is an advanced ocean technology company that develops optical sensors for aquatic research and water quality monitoring. Satlantic’s SUNA Deep and ISUS instruments will be provided for the requirements of the OOI. Click here to read more about this and other recent OOI Contract Awards.

The OOI continues to develop informational tools on the program to benefit the future OOI user community. This month the first phase of development of detailed OOI Instrument Tables completed with the addition of tables on the Regional Scale Nodes (RSN) component of the program. In the months ahead the OOI Instrument Tables will be further enhanced. Click here to access the OOI Instrument Tables.  The program welcomes all questions and comments on how we can further improve such tools. Click her to Submit a Question or Comment.

(Click to enlarge) Megan Gibney (left) and Leslie Smith (right) of the Ocean Observatories Initiative Program lead students through an experiment to measure ocean properties at a recent outreach event. (Credit: OOI Program Office Communications)

During a recent outreach event at a local elementary school near Washington, D.C., students dove to the deepest depths of the ocean, explored the continental shelves and learned about data collection with the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI).

Though just learning the basics of ocean science in their classroom today, these young students could be the users of OOI data that will be available for a 25-30 year plus time period.  The idea of learning about the deepest depths of the ocean and using robotic instruments to collect scientific data on the ocean seemed to fascinate the young ocean enthusiasts who had more than enough questions of their own.

Leslie Smith, a University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography alumnus who works in communications for the OOI Program at the Consortium for Ocean Leadership, gave the 100 students attending the event an overview on the global oceans as a start to their ocean science curriculum for this year and an introduction to the OOI. She encouraged the young audience that they too could someday become oceanographers if they work hard at their math and science now.

Linking the real world to the classroom, the presentation focused on highlighting many state-mandated standards of learning as a preview to provide interesting examples of concepts from someone who works in the field. The students were particularly impressed when Smith showed a Styrofoam cup that had been sent down 1,000 meters in the Sargasso Sea causing it to be shrink to about a quarter of its original size from the pressure of the dive.

The students also participated in a hands-on data collection and measurement experiment to get a real feel for what information and data products will be available with the OOI.  The students measured some ocean parameters, including temperature and salinity, from water samples using real scientific equipment.  They then worked together to consider what the measurements meant and draw conclusions of their own.

“Inquiry based learning is very important,” Smith said. “You need to let the kids ask questions, you need to let them use their imagination to think about what they are seeing.  It’s good not to have a set answer that the kids are trying to figure out, but rather to teach the kids how to ask questions and give them the chance to be creative about their answers.”

Smith explained that the OOI will provide massive amounts of information about the ocean and that it will be all free and accessible on any computer.

“Sharing my love of the oceans with children is inspiring,” Smith remarked.  “Seeing the wonder in their faces, listening to their ideas and questions.  It reminds me why I study the ocean – because it is fascinating.  There is so much left to be discovered and the OOI is going to open new avenues of exploration for future researchers, maybe even a student in the room here today.”

The OOI, a National Science Foundation-funded program, is one integrated infrastructure of science-driven systems to measure the physical, chemical, geological and biological variables in the ocean and seafloor on coastal, regional and global scales.  The OOI will put real-time ocean observing data in the hands of a vast user community of oceanographers , scientists, educators and the public. Anyone with an Internet connection will be able to access the OOI data.

This outreach event is one of many taking place across the OOI program as program scientists and engineers reach out to educators and students in various communities. Later this month the OOI will participate as part of a larger Consortium for Ocean Leadership exhibit at the USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C., on April 28-29. Those attending that event will get the opportunity to explore with the OOI and try out these hands-on experiments for themselves. Click here for more information on that event: www.usasciencefestival.org.

To learn more about the OOI please continue to visit the OOI Website and OOI Facebook and Twitter accounts for event coverage.

(Click to enlarge) Model of a Secondary Node. Drawn by Mike Welch, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington

The Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Regional Scale Nodes (RSN) Team, located at the University of Washington, has provided an update on the current status of the Secondary Nodes Systems for the OOI.  The Secondary Nodes serve as the bridge between the RSN instruments and the Primary Infrastructure. A successful Critical Design Review (CDR) for the RSN Secondary Nodes subsystem took place on November 21, 2011, at UW’s Applied Physics Laboratory. Comprised of low- and medium-power junction boxes and low-voltage nodes, these components convert the 1 Gb/s bandwidth and 375dc voltage from the Primary Nodes to the native interfaces needed by the scientific instruments. Click here to read the full Update on the RSN Secondary Nodes System.

This month the OOI selected Satlantic, LP., of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, to provide Dissolved Nitrates (NUTNR) Instruments for the OOI. Under the $900,000 contract, Satlantic will provide up to 28 NUTNR instruments.

Satlantic is an advanced ocean technology company that develops optical sensors for aquatic research and water quality monitoring. Satlantic’s SUNA Deep and ISUS instruments will be provided for the requirements of the OOI.

SUNA Deep provides real time, chemical-free nitrate calculations in deep ocean environments using Satlantic’s advanced UV absorption technology. Satlantic’s ISUS nitrate sensor is a real time, chemical free sensor designed to overcome the traditional challenges associated with reagent-based nitrate analysis in aquatic environments. The ISUS technology uses advanced UV absorption technology to provide accurate nitrate concentration measurements in real-time.

In another contract award, Sunburst Sensors, LLC, of Missoula, Montana, was selected to provide pH (PHSEN) and Partial Pressure of Carbon Dioxide in Water Instruments (PC02W) for the OOI.  Under the $2.5 million contract, Sunburst will provide up to 77 PHSEN and 35 PC02W instruments. Sunburst Sensors designs and manufactures instruments that measure inorganic carbon parameters pC02, pH and total alkalinity. Sunburst’s Submersible Autonomous Moored Instrument (SAMI) measures and logs levels of dissolved chemicals in sea and fresh water.

For more information on these and other contract awards visit the Contract Awards Section of the OOI website.

Also at the end of the month the OOI program participated in the 2012 Ocean Sciences conference at Salt Lake City, Utah, with a variety of sessions, posters and information sharing opportunities. In addition to scheduled scientific sessions, the OOI Team held special discussions on three days to provide interested attendees with an update on the OOI and how they can become involved.  Presentations and posters from the Ocean Sciences meeting soon will be available on the OOI Website

For more information on the OOI please visit the OOI Website or follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

The sea trials phase of the coastal glider product verification tests started on the East Coast late last year with the successful launch of the Teledyne Webb Research’s SG-2 Slocum glider on Nov. 3, 2011. That glider, deployed by the OOI’s Coastal Global Scales Node (CGSN) team, conducted at 15-day deployment off the New England Coast near Martha’s Vineyard.  The glider next was deployed in January off the Oregon for second set of missions to verify specifications and those tests are  ongoing.                                                                                                                          

The OOI coastal glider, a key component of the OOI, will gather ocean data including temperature, salinity, chlorophyll and dissolved organic matter fluorescence, optical backscatter, light levels, dissolved oxygen, and water velocity.  The CGSN team is testing the first glider acquired by OOI to verify that the design meets specifications such as proper functioning of all instruments, expected battery usage and flight characteristics. More information and photos from these important tests will be posted to the OOI Website soon.

To learn more about the components of the OOI located on the West Coast and other locations, please visit our OOI Instrument Table Section of the OOI Website. New tables outlining the Endurance Array component of the program were added in January to this new online tool for those interested in exploring the OOI infrastructure.

In other program news, a contract was awarded to Sunburst Sensors, LCC, of Missoula, Montana, to provide pH (PHSEN) and Partial Pressure of Carbon Dioxide in Water Instruments (PC02W) for the OOI. Under the $2.5 million contract, Sunburst will provide up to 77 PHSEN and 35 PC02W instruments. This is one of several contracts awarded as new equipment comes online for the OOI.  Click here to read more about this and other recent OOI Contract Awards.

As the 2012 Ocean Sciences meeting approaches, the OOI program has planned variety of sessions, posters and information sharing opportunities. In addition to scheduled scientific sessions, the OOI Team will hold a special discussion, offered on three different days, to provide interested attendees with an update on the OOI. That informational talk, Ocean Observatories Initiative: Information and Community Opportunities, will be offered from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m., on Tuesday, Feb. 21 and Thursday, Feb. 23 in Ballroom D and on Wednesday, Feb. 22, at that same time in Ballroom J. Click here for a list of all OOI Events at 2012 Ocean Sciences.

Please continue to visit the OOI Website and OOI Facebook and Twitter for updates on the OOI.

(Click to enlarge) Dr. Michael Vardaro, OOI Associate Project Scientist from Oregon State University, explains his poster at the 2012 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Photo Credit Megan Gibney)

The Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) is back from a successful 2012 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah.  During the conference, OOI team members held a variety of sessions, posters and information sharing opportunities.  At the OOI booth, team members fielded questions from a variety of enthusiastic visitors and provided demonstrations of the online OOI Instrument Tables.

On Tuesday morning of the conference, OOI Senior Project Scientist Steve Ackleson gave a talk on the history and future directions of ocean observatories.  This was part of a session he co-chaired in collaboration with Ocean Networks Canada, University of Maine, and NEPTUNE Canada on the integrative power of ocean observatories.  You can download a PDF of his talk HERE

In addition to scheduled scientific sessions, the OOI Team held a series of special informational sessions over three days to provide interested attendees with an update on recent OOI activities and opportunities for community involvement. You can download a PDF of that presentation HERE

(Click to enlarge) Dr. Jonathan Fram, OOI Associate Systems Engineer from Oregon State University, describes new OOI platforms at the 2012 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah. (Photo Credit Megan Gibney)

If you missed the meeting and would like to learn more about what is happening in the program, check out the poster links below.

• SCIENCE AND DATA PRODUCTS FROM THE OCEAN OBSERVATORIES INITIATIVE
  

• COMPARING AUTOMATIC VERSUS HUMAN-CREATED QUALITY CONTROL FLAGS OF OCEANOGRAPHIC MOORING DATA AND APPLICABILITY TO THE OOI 
  

• OOI SAMPLING STRATEGY AND CORE INSTRUMENTATION
  

• NEW OOI PLATFORMS FOR LONG TERM SAMPLING OF THE ENTIRE WATER COLUMN IN ROUGH SEAS NEAR THE COAST

• THE ROLES OF COASTAL GLIDERS IN THE OOI

• BUILDING A HIGH-POWER AND HIGH-BANDWIDTH CABLED OBSERVATORY ON AN ACTIVE VOLCANO: AXIAL SEAMOUNT

• ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE CORE INSTRUMENT MODELS AND LOCATIONS
  

• OBSERVATIONS OF ANOMALOUS NEAR-SURFACE, LOW-SALINITY PULSES OFF THE CENTRAL OREGON COAST

• THE FUTURE OF REAL-TIME MONITORING OF METHANE HYDRATE DEPOSITS AT ACTIVE CONTINENTAL MARGINS: THE OOI CABLED OBSERVATORY AT HYDRATE RIDGE
  

• OCEAN OBSERVATORIES INITIATIVE: CONSTRUCTION PROGRESS UPDATE

Poster Summaries

SCIENCE AND DATA PRODUCTS FROM THE OCEAN OBSERVATORIES INITIATIVE

Authors:    Lorraine Heilman, Susan Banahan, Sarah Webster, Jon Fram, Mike Vardaro, Giora Proskurowski, William Bergen, Steve Ackleson

Summary: This poster describes OOI data, products, algorithms, levels of processing, quality control, intermediate products, sampling frequencies, data volumes and data rates.  Several specific examples of data processing are described along with the description of all planned data products.  It introduces the scientific community to the specific products that will be available in this unprecedented opportunity for oceanographic, benthic and air-sea research.

COMPARING AUTOMATIC VERSUS HUMAN-CREATED QUALITY CONTROL FLAGS OF OCEANOGRAPHIC MOORING DATA AND APPLICABILITY TO THE OOI

Authors: Matthias Lankhorst, Hey-Jin Kim

Summary: A suite of computationally simple algorithms for data quality control (QC) is presented that generates pass/fail flags for oceanographic data from moorings. This poster addresses the development and tuning of these algorithms as part of the OOI.

OOI SAMPLING STRATEGY AND CORE INSTRUMENTATION

Authors: Mike Vardaro, Jack Barth, Oscar Schofield, Doug Luther, and Deborah Kelley

Summary: This poster addresses the OOI sampling strategy that must consider event-driven sampling responses, mitigation of between-sensor interference, data products that require multiple sensors, the need for physical sampling to validate and calibrate OOI sensors, and the eventual incorporation of non-core sensors into the network.

NEW OOI PLATFORMS FOR LONG TERM SAMPLING OF THE ENTIRE WATER COLUMN IN ROUGH SEAS NEAR THE COAST

Authors: Jon Fram, Edward Dever

Summary: This year the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) tested platforms for consideration at its 25m depth Oregon and Washington long-term observation sites. This poster addresses assessments of recent tests and plans for platforms for long-term sampling. Results of the mechanical performance of mooring and profilers are shown along with an illustration from these data of the scientific value these paired platforms will provide.

THE ROLES OF COASTAL GLIDERS IN THE OOI

Authors: Edward Dever, Jack Barth, Al Plueddemann, Oscar Schofield; Uwe Send

Summary: The OOI plans to begin operational deployment of gliders on the coastal scale OOI arrays in May 2012. This poster describes the roles of coastal gliders in OOI, reporting on the testing progress and updating the plans for operational deployments in the coastal scale arrays of OOI.

BUILDING A HIGH-POWER AND HIGH-BANDWIDTH CABLED OBSERVATORY ON AN ACTIVE VOLCANO: AXIAL SEAMOUNT

Authors: Deborah Kelley, John Delaney and OOI RSN Team

Summary: Axial Seamount is the most active volcano on the Juan de Fuca Ridge, erupting in 1998 and 2011. It is both seismically and hydrothermally active, and hosts diverse biological communities. It is a long-term NOAA-PMEL observatory where long-term co-registered fluid chemistry-temperature-microbiological measurements have been made that begin to quantify the microbial evolution at the decade scale of seafloor eruption cycles. Because of these characteristics, Axial was chosen as the US’s first cabled observatory at a submarine volcano. This 5-year construction and 25-year operational project is part of the NSF’s Ocean Observatories Initiative. This poster addresses the Axial Seamount area and the OOI RSN teams work there.

ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE CORE INSTRUMENT MODELS AND LOCATIONS

Authors: Merrie Beth Neely, Anthony Ferlaino, Barry Stamey

Summary: The OOI has selected the vendors and models for many of the 49 Core Instrument Families that will be located on the arrays.  The sensor models and their location-specific features are presented here, with reference to their generalized data product available from OOI’s Integrated Observatory Network data portal.  Approximately 750 instruments are expected to complement the OOI arrays at the time of commissioning.  This poster provides information on core instruments and locations.

OBSERVATIONS OF ANOMALOUS NEAR-SURFACE, LOW-SALINITY PULSES OFF THE CENTRAL OREGON COAST

Authors: Craig Risien, Piero Mazzini, Jack Barth

Summary: The Columbia River plume is a dominant feature of the Pacific Northwest coastal hydrography. This poster presents the spatial/temporal evolution of low-salinity pulses during June and July 2011. Analysis of in situ data off of Newport collected from OSU autonomous underwater gliders, Ocean Observatories Initiative (NSF funded) and the Northwest Association of Networked Ocean Observing Systems (NANOOS; NOAA funded) moorings, as well as remotely sensed data, show that the on-offshore location of the plume front is not controlled by riverine discharge rates, but rather by Ekman dynamics, and that these freshwater pulses reach the coast.

THE FUTURE OF REAL-TIME MONITORING OF METHANE HYDRATE DEPOSITS AT ACTIVE CONTINENTAL MARGINS: THE OOI CABLED OBSERVATORY AT HYDRATE RIDGE

Authors: Orest Kawka, Deborah S. Kelley, John R. Delaney, Evan Solomon, OOI-RSN Team

Summary: Hydrate Ridge is characterized by an extensive system of subsurface gas hydrate deposits, active plumes, and extensive biological communities. Previous studies of its subsurface geology and these seep-supported benthic communities highlighted the need for an integrated, synoptic, and long-term approach to the study of carbon cycling in such continental margins. In 2013, the cabled observatory component of the OOI, known as the Regional Scale Nodes (RSN), will begin deploying an array of seafloor instruments at Southern Hydrate Ridge. The poster discusses RSN’s built-in expandability and 25-year lifetime will provide unprecedented opportunities for long-term high-resolution studies, furthering our understanding of gas hydrates and carbon cycling in such systems and potential global effects associated with tectonic activity and climate change.

OCEAN OBSERVATORIES INITIATIVE: CONSTRUCTION PROGRESS UPDATE

Authors: Tim Cowles and Susan Banahan

Summary: The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) is implementing the construction and operation of an interactive, integrated ocean observing network. This presentation will provide information on major advances in OOI construction and an update on overall program plans.

(Click to enlarge) Tim Cowles, Vice President & Director of Ocean Observing Programs, meets with visitors at the OOI booth during the 2012 Ocean Sciences meeting. Cowles and members of the OOI team will be on hand throughout the week to meet with members of the scientific community and provide updates on the OOI program. (Credit: Megan Gibney, OOI Program Management Office)

The Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) program this week is participating in the 2012 Ocean Sciences conference at Salt Lake City, Utah, with a variety of sessions, posters and information sharing opportunities.

In addition to scheduled scientific sessions, the OOI Team will hold a special discussion on three days to provide interested attendees with an update on the OOI and how they can become involved. That informational talk, Ocean Observatories Initiative: Information and Community Opportunities, will be offered from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m., on Tuesday, Feb. 21 and Thursday, Feb. 23 in Ballroom D and on Wednesday, Feb. 22, at that same time in Ballroom J.

“The Ocean Sciences meeting provides us with a great forum to share our progress on the OOI with the our colleagues and provide information to future users of OOI data on how to become involved now,” said Tim Cowles, Vice President & Director of Ocean Observing Programs at the Consortium for Ocean Leadership. “We look forward to a productive exchange of information throughout the week and will have a number of our project scientists on hand to answer questions about the OOI and the opportunities it will provide for research.”

Steven Ackleson, Senior Project Scientist for the OOI, will lead a discussion at Ocean Sciences on recent insights and the future for ocean observing.  “The OOI is the single, largest, national investment in ocean observing within the careers of practicing oceanographers and will likely define the research activities of many ocean scientists for the next quarter of a century,” Ackleson said. “The Ocean Sciences Meeting gives us a chance to reflect on this and discuss ways of realizing the fullest potential of this new capability.”

In addition to the scheduled sessions, members of the OOI Team will be available throughout the week at the OOI Booth in the exhibit area Booth #59 to discuss aspects of the program.

Ocean Sciences is sponsored by The Oceanography Society, the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography and AGU. More than 4,000 attendees are anticipated to attend.

Please continue to visit the OOI Website and OOI Facebook and Twitter accounts for event coverage. Click here for a Full List of OOI Events at Ocean Sciences.