Present and Future of Oceanography
John Delaney: Wiring an interactive ocean
John Delaney, an Oceanographer from the University of Washington (US) talks about the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), a state of the art project of the National Science Foundation that will construct a network of instruments, undersea cables, and instrumented moorings spanning the Western Hemisphere. This network of observatories will measure physical, chemical, geological, and biological phenomena in carefully selected key coastal, regional, and global areas. A common cyberinfrastructure architecture will integrate the observatories’ thousands of instruments, tens of thousands of users, and terabytes of data through the Internet. Educational elements that are under development will reach a global audience.
About John Delaney
John Delaney studies the physical, chemical and biological interactions found in the mid-ocean ridge system, specifically on the deep-sea volcanoes along the Juan de Fuca Ridge in the northeast Pacific Ocean. It’s a complex, changeable world (that’s also quite hard to get to). As part of the NSF’s Ocean Observatories Initiative, Delaney is spearheading a bold new plan to gather unprecedented amounts of oceanic data.
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