HR: 1340h
AN: OS43B-0573    [Abstracts]
TI: The Monterey Ocean Observing System Development Program
AU: * Chaffey, M
EM: chma@mbari.org
AF: MBARI, 7700 Sandholdt Road , Moss Landing, CA 95039 United States
AU: Graybeal, J B
EM: graybeal@mbari.org
AF: MBARI, 7700 Sandholdt Road , Moss Landing, CA 95039 United States
AU: O'Reilly, T
EM: oreilly@mbari.org
AF: MBARI, 7700 Sandholdt Road , Moss Landing, CA 95039 United States
AU: Ryan, J
EM: ryjo@mbari.org
AF: MBARI, 7700 Sandholdt Road , Moss Landing, CA 95039 United States
AB: The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) has a major development program underway to design, build, test and apply technology suitable to deep ocean observatories. The Monterey Ocean Observing System (MOOS) program is designed to form a large-scale instrument network that provides generic interfaces, intelligent instrument support, data archiving and near-real-time interaction for observatory experiments. The MOOS mooring system is designed as a portable surface mooring based seafloor observatory that provides data and power connections to both seafloor and ocean surface instruments through a specialty anchor cable. The surface mooring collects solar and wind energy for powering instruments and transmits data to shore-side researchers using a satellite communications modem. The use of a high modulus anchor cable to reach seafloor instrument networks is a high-risk development effort that is critical for the overall success of the portable observatory concept. An aggressive field test program off the California coast is underway to improve anchor cable constructions as well as end-to-end test overall system design. The overall MOOS observatory systems view is presented and the results of our field tests completed to date are summarized.
DE: 4894 Instruments and techniques
SC: Ocean Sciences [OS]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting