ULTRAMOOR: An Ultra Long-Life, Low-Cost Mooring System

9810641霍格伍兹霍尔海洋研究所将开展一个为期四年的项目，以解决利用系泊设施加强深海长期环境观测的关键海洋科学要求。材料、电子和通信技术的最新进展表明，可以在现有能力的基础上进行重大改进。PIS提出了一个为期四年的项目，以开发一种地下系泊的替代品：(1)更便宜，需要更少的熟练人员来准备和部署，(2)足够可靠和节能，可以进行5年或更长时间的部署，(3)将其数据遥测回科学家，(4)机械上简化到可以在机会船上进行部署。最终，一种可牺牲的系泊可能是可以实现的。发展工作的前提是，对洋流和其他变量的测量将继续对促进我们对海洋的了解以及开发和实施能够预测海洋未来状态以及了解海洋现在和过去状况的模型具有至关重要的意义。高效、可靠、寿命长的系泊系统的开发将使解决许多问题成为可能，而这些问题以前是徒劳的，但随着该领域转向全球气候变化问题，这些问题变得越来越重要。

9810641 Hogg The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will undertake a four-year project that addresses a critical ocean sciences requirement for enhancing long-term environmental observations in the deep ocean using moorings. Recent advances in materials, electronics, and communications technology suggest that significant improvements can be made over present capabilities. The PIs propose a four-year project to develop a replacement for the subsurface mooring that: (1) is less expensive and requires fewer, skilled people to prepare and deploy, (2) is sufficiently reliable and power conservative that deployments of five years or more will be possible, (3) telemeters its data back to the scientist, and, (4) is mechanically simplified to the point that deployment can be done from a vessel of opportunity. Ultimately, an expendable mooring may be achievable. The development effort is based on the premise that measurements of ocean currents and other variables will continue to be of fundamental importance to advancing our understanding of the ocean and the development and implementation of models capable of predicting its future state, as well as understanding its present and past conditions. The development of an efficient, reliable, and long-lived mooring system will make it possible to attack many problems that previously it would have been futile to consider, but which have become increasingly important as the field moves to global, climate change issues.