Ocean Observatories Initiative - Construction under MREFC

我们建议构建一个多尺度、多学科的海洋观测系统，该系统将在海洋中永久存在，为先进的传感器和平台提供前所未有的功率和交互能力，并实时访问数据和先进的可视化工具。海洋观测倡议（OOI）将通过建立一个开放、集成、网络化的观测系统来改变海洋研究和教育，该系统将使下一代的研究、发现、教育和公众参与一系列广泛的主题，如气候变化和海洋生态系统、湍流混合、板块构造和海底生物地球化学。OOI将使多个尺度的海洋观测通过共同的设计元素和一个总体的、交互式的网络基础设施集成到一个观测系统中。海洋领导联盟将协调和管理OOI的建设，并向沿海/全球规模节点、区域规模节点、网络基础设施以及教育和公众参与的实施组织授予子奖项。OOI的海岸规模资产将扩大美国海岸以外的现有观测，创建集中的、可配置的观测区域。区域电缆观测平台将采用电缆连接。东北太平洋的一个地区，拥有高速光网和电网。全球部分通过卫星与海岸相连的系泊公海浮标来解决行星尺度的变化。统一的网络基础设施将连接系统的所有组成部分，并允许研究人员控制系统一部分部署的实验采样策略，以响应系统其他部分对事件的远程检测。整个OOI允许科学家和公民观察现象，而不考虑观测的来源（例如，沿海，全球，区域，船舶，卫星，IOOS）。OOI将通过实施教育和公众参与（EPE）组成部分来解决信息学习和高等教育问题，从而解决国家科学基金会研究的更广泛影响方面。这一科学教育组成部分将利用互联网，利用互联网资源和可在线访问的广泛信息和服务。OOI EPE组件将关注哪些方面？自由选择吗?在各种物理和虚拟环境中学习。此外，EPE的组成部分将支持在线高等教育职业、技术和教育工作者培训项目，重点是提高海洋科学的参与度和多样性。

ABSTRACT We propose to construct a multi-scale, multidisciplinary ocean observing system that will provide a permanent presence in the ocean, with unprecedented power and interactive capability for advanced sensors and platforms, and real-time access to data and advanced visualization tools. The Ocean Observing Initiative (OOI) will transform ocean research and education by establishing an open, integrated, networked observing system that will enable next-generation research, discovery, education, and public engagement on a range of topics as broad as climate variability and ocean ecosystems, turbulent mixing, plate tectonics, and sub-seafloor biogeochemistry. The OOI will enable multiple scales of marine observations to be integrated into one observing system via common design elements and an overarching, interactive cyberinfrastructure. The Consortium for Ocean Leadership will coordinate and manage the construction of the OOI, with subawards to the Implementing Organizations for the Coastal/Global Scale Nodes, the Regional Scale Nodes, Cyberinfrastructure, and Education and Public Engagement. The coastal-scale assets of the OOI will expand existing observations off both U.S. coasts, creating focused, configurable observing regions. Regional cabled observing platforms will ?wire? a single region in the Northeast Pacific Ocean with a high speed optical and power grid. The global component addresses planetary-scale changes via moored open-ocean buoys linked to shore via satellite. A unifying cyberinfrastructure will link all the components of the system, and permit researchers to control sampling strategies of experiments deployed on one part of the system in response to remote detection of events by other parts of the system. The whole of OOI allows scientists and citizens to view phenomena irrespective of the observations' sources (e.g., coastal, global, regional, ships, satellites, IOOS). The OOI will address the Broader Impacts aspects of NSF research by implementing an Education and Public Engagement (EPE) component to address informatl learning and post-secondary education. This science education component will take advantage of the Internet, using Internet resources and the wide range of information and services that can be accessed online. The OOI EPE component will focus on ?free choice? learning in a variety of physical and virtual settings. In addition, the EPE component will support online post-secondary career, technical and educator training programs, with a focus on increasing participation and diversity in ocean science.