ALOHA Cabled Observatory: Operations and Maintenance

ALOHA电缆天文台（ACO）于2011年6月部署，用于支持位于瓦胡岛以北100公里的ALOHA站的创新科学研究。在过去的23年里，夏威夷海洋时间序列（HOT）项目一直在收集基于船只的海洋数据；在过去7年，WHOTS系泊系统提供了全面的气象和上层海洋资料。这些数据与来自相关过程研究的数据一起，形成了以一个位置为中心的独特的、多元的海洋状态长期数据集。PI要求为科学界继续ACO的运行和维护提供资金。更广泛的影响：一个成功的全海洋深度电缆天文台可供研究界使用，将对海洋科学和向学生和感兴趣的公众传达我们工作的重要性产生广泛的影响。pi很好地解释了它们将如何引导海洋科学界，包括在电缆天文台上托管仪器和支持仪器，这些仪器将产生对科学界有用的数据。让来自UH的工程专业学生参与进来是非常好的，并且延伸到当地的科学博物馆将使许多到夏威夷的游客了解和欣赏蓝色表面下的深海。ALOHA站点还具有与HOT时间序列站相关联的独特优势。此外，与主教博物馆的合作似乎是有根据的，有利于中学的学习。

The ALOHA Cabled Observatory (ACO) was deployed in June 2011 to support innovative scientific research at Station ALOHA, 100 km north of Oahu. For the past 23 years on a monthly schedule, the Hawai'i Ocean Time-series (HOT) project has been collecting ship-based oceanographic data; for the last 7 years, the WHOTS mooring has provided comprehensive meteorological and upper ocean data. These data together with those from associated process studies form a unique, multivariate long-term data set of the ocean state centered at one location. The PI's request funding to continued ACO operations and maintenance for the scientific community.Broader Impacts: A successful full-ocean-depth cabled observatory available to the research community will have broad impacts on both ocean science and in communicating the importance of our work to students and the interested public. The PIs do a great job explaining how they will entrain the ocean science community, including both hosting instruments on the cabled observatory and supporting instruments that will yield data useful to the science community. Involving engineering students from UH is excellent and outreach to the local science museum will allow the many visitors to Hawaii to understand and appreciate the deep-sea beneath the blue surface. The ALOHA site also has a unique advantage being associated with the HOT time-series station. Also the proposed collaboration with the Bishop Museum seems well founded and beneficial to middle school learning.