Operations and Maintenance of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI)

该奖项旨在运营和维护一个多尺度，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能和交互能力，并实时访问数据和先进的可视化工具。 海洋观测计划（OOI）将通过建立一个开放的、综合的、网络化的观测系统来改变海洋研究和教育，这将使下一代研究、发现、教育和公众参与能够广泛地涉及气候变化和海洋生态系统、湍流混合、板块构造和海底下生物地球化学等一系列主题。OOI将通过共同的设计元素和总体的交互式网络基础设施，将多种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OOI的初始运作，并将分奖项授予沿海/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。OOI的沿海规模资产将扩大美国两个海岸的现有观测，创建重点，可配置的观测区域。区域有线观测平台将？电线？东北太平洋的一个区域，拥有高速光纤和电力网。全球部分通过卫星连接到海岸的系泊公海浮标来处理行星尺度的变化。一个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采样策略的实验部署在一个部分的系统，以响应远程检测事件的系统的其他部分。整个OOI允许科学家和公民查看现象，而不管观察的来源（例如，沿海、全球、区域、船舶、卫星、IOOS）。

This award is for the operations and maintenance of 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 climatevariability 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 initial operation 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).