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

小行星9810641 伍兹霍尔海洋研究所将开展一个为期四年的项目， 解决了海洋科学的一个关键要求，以加强长期环境 使用系泊设备在深海进行观测。 材料、电子、 和通信技术表明， 目前的能力。 PI提出了一个为期四年的项目，以开发一种替代 水下系泊：（1）成本较低，需要较少的熟练人员进行准备 和部署，（2）是足够可靠和功率保守的部署，五个 年或更长的时间将是可能的，（3）遥测其数据返回给科学家，（4）是 机械上简化到可以从 机会最终，可以实现一次性系泊。 开发工作的前提是，测量洋流和 其他变量将继续对推进我们的 对海洋的了解以及开发和实施能够 预测其未来状态，以及了解其现在和过去的状况。的 开发一种高效、可靠、寿命长的系泊系统， 解决许多以前认为是徒劳的问题，但 随着该领域转向全球气候变化问题，

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.