Ocean Observatories Initiative - Construction under MREFC

摘要我们建议建立一个多尺度、多学科的海洋观测系统，它将提供永久存在于海洋中，具有前所未有的能力和交互能力，先进的传感器和平台，以及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的、综合的、联网的观测系统来改变海洋研究和教育，该系统将使下一代研究、发现、教育和公众参与一系列广泛的主题，如气候多变性和海洋生态系统、湍流混合、板块构造和海底以下生物地球化学。OOI将通过共同的设计要素和一个总体的、互动的网络基础设施，将多个尺度的海洋观测整合到一个观测系统中。海洋领导联盟将协调和管理开放式海洋倡议的建设，并向沿海/全球尺度节点、区域尺度节点、数字基础设施以及教育和公众参与的实施组织颁发次级奖励。OOI的沿海规模资产将扩大美国两个海岸的现有观测，创建有重点的、可配置的观测区域。区域有线观测平台将会布线吗？东北太平洋上的一个地区，拥有高速的光纤和电网。全球组成部分通过卫星与海岸相连的系泊公海浮标来应对全球范围的变化。统一的网络基础设施将连接系统的所有组件，并允许研究人员控制部署在系统一个部分的实验的抽样策略，以应对系统其他部分对事件的远程检测。OOI的全部内容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共参与(EPE)组成部分来解决NSF研究的更广泛影响方面，以解决信息学习和高等教育。这一科学教育部门将利用因特网，利用因特网资源以及可在线获取的各种信息和服务。OOI EPE组件将重点放在？自由选择？在各种物理和虚拟环境中学习。此外，环境教育部门将支持在线大专后职业、技术和教育者培训方案，重点是增加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.