Management and Operation of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI)

海洋观测站计划（OOI）的管理和运营

• 批准号: 1743430
• 负责人: James Edson
• 金额: $ 22000万
• 依托单位: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1743430&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Management; Operation; Ocean; Observatories; Initiative

The Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) is a research observatory with arrays of instrumented buoys, profilers, ocean gliders, and autonomous vehicles within different open-ocean and coastal regions, as well as a cabled array of instrumented platforms and profilers on and above the seafloor. This award to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), for continued operations and management, builds upon the accomplishments of the initial OOI consortium, including cutting edge in-water infrastructure required to support transformative ocean observing. WHOI, the University of Washington (UW), Oregon State University (OSU), and Rutgers University (RU), will provide scientific and technical management and operation of OOI, beginning in 2018, for a five-year period with the possibility of a five-year extension. WHOI serves as the lead institution overall, as well as the marine implementing organization (MIO) for two global arrays, Irminger Sea in the North Atlantic, and Station Papa in the North Pacific, and one coastal array (referred to as the Pioneer Array), located on the East Coast of the U.S. UW will serve as the lead MIO for the Regional Cabled Array off the West Coast of the U.S., and OSU will serve as the lead for the second coastal array (the Endurance Array), located off the West Coast of the U.S. RU is responsible for the cyberinfrastructure and, in conjunction with the three MIOS, will focus on the data dissemination. A central portal for data access, supported by a common cyberinfrastructure, ties the system of systems together. The OOI can be used to investigate a spectrum of phenomena and processes including episodic, short-lived events, and more subtle, long-term changes in ocean systems, such as extreme events including storms, undersea volcanoes, and ocean circulation on continental shelfs and slopes. OOI data are vitally important for understanding ocean acidification, nutrient dynamics critical to fisheries, and other questions throughout the basic and applied science continuum of ocean sciences. As such, the OOI facility is providing the public, educators, students, and researchers with: (1) long-term time series data sets; (2) an in-situ ocean laboratory to allow users to submit proposals for development and application of new technologies by connecting their instruments or concepts to the OOI network; and (3) tools that will support undergraduate classroom applications of the OOI, as well as public outreach through informal education. The OOI delivers all data/metadata and education tools to the public via the internet at www.oceanobservatories.org.The interdisciplinary OOI measurements provide comprehensive insight into the Earth, oceans and atmosphere, useful for scientists, educators, students, laypersons, industry, and policymakers. The Irminger Sea Array provides interdisciplinary measurements of the water column, mesoscale variability, and air-sea fluxes in a region of documented deep-water formation, which impacts the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, a key component of the climate system. Together with ongoing NOAA measurements of air-sea fluxes, the OOI Array at Station Papa quantifies water column properties and mesoscale variability in a region of longstanding interdisciplinary interest. The Pioneer Array on the New England shelf break quantifies the interdisciplinary processes near the persistent shelf-slope front that drive some of the nation?s most productive ecosystems. The Regional Cabled Array, which brings high power and high-bandwidth, real-time, two-way communications into the oceans with adaptive sampling capabilities, provides new insights into interlinked seismic, volcanic, and hydrothermal processes operating off the Oregon coast, the flux of methane from the seafloor, the seafloor biosphere, high resolution temporal measurements of blue water and coastal ocean dynamics and ecosystems (e.g. hypoxia, thin layers, plumes), biogeochemical interactions, and turbulent mixing. The Endurance Array provides interdisciplinary observations within the coastal upwelling region of the Oregon and Washington coasts, providing synoptic, multi-scale observations of the greater eastern boundary current regime, and new insights into shelf/slope nutrient exchange, air-sea property exchange, carbon cycling, and ocean acidification. Taken together, OOI measurements improve understanding of processes impacting climate variability, ecosystems, fisheries, geohazards, and the subseafloor environment, which advance the capabilities of decision-makers charged with the wise stewardship of ocean resources.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

海洋观测计划 (OOI) 是一个研究观测站，在不同的公海和沿海地区拥有一系列仪器化浮标、剖面仪、海洋滑翔机和自动驾驶车辆，以及海底和海底上方一系列有线仪器化平台和剖面仪。该奖项授予伍兹霍尔海洋研究所 (WHOI)，以表彰伍兹霍尔海洋研究所 (WHOI) 的持续运营和管理，它建立在最初 OOI 联盟所取得的成就的基础上，包括支持变革性海洋观测所需的尖端水下基础设施。 WHOI、华盛顿大学 (UW)、俄勒冈州立大学 (OSU) 和罗格斯大学 (RU) 将从 2018 年开始为 OOI 提供科学技术管理和运营，为期五年，并有可能延长五年。 WHOI 是总体牵头机构，也是两个全球阵列（北大西洋的伊尔明格海和北太平洋的帕帕站）和一个沿海阵列（称为先锋阵列）的海洋执行组织 (MIO)位于美国东海岸的威斯康星大学将担任美国西海岸区域有线阵列的牵头 MIO，俄勒冈州立大学将担任第二个沿海阵列（即Endurance Array）位于美国西海岸附近，RU 负责网络基础设施，并与三个 MIOS 一起专注于数据传播。由通用网络基础设施支持的数据访问中央门户将各个系统连接在一起。 OOI 可用于研究一系列现象和过程，包括海洋系统中偶发的、短暂的事件和更微妙的长期变化，例如风暴、海底火山、大陆架和海洋环流等极端事件。连续下坡。 OOI 数据对于了解海洋酸化、对渔业至关重要的营养动态以及海洋科学基础和应用科学连续体中的其他问题至关重要。因此，OOI 设施为公众、教育工作者、学生和研究人员提供：(1) 长期时间序列数据集； (2) 现场海洋实验室，允许用户通过将其仪器或概念连接到 OOI 网络来提交新技术开发和应用的建议； (3) 支持 OOI 本科生课堂应用以及通过非正式教育进行公众宣传的工具。 OOI 通过互联网 www.oceanobservatories.org 向公众提供所有数据/元数据和教育工具。跨学科的 OOI 测量提供了对地球、海洋和大气的全面洞察，对科学家、教育工作者、学生、外行、工业界、和政策制定者。伊尔明格海洋阵列提供了对有记录的深水形成区域的水柱、中尺度变化和海气通量的跨学科测量，这些数据影响了大西洋经向翻转环流，而大西洋经向翻转环流是气候系统的关键组成部分。与 NOAA 正在进行的海气通量测量一起，帕帕站的 OOI 阵列量化了一个长期受到跨学科关注的区域的水柱特性和中尺度变化。新英格兰陆架断裂处的先锋阵列量化了持续性陆架斜坡前沿附近的跨学科过程，这些过程驱动着美国一些最具生产力的生态系统。区域电缆阵列将高功率、高带宽、实时、双向通信带入海洋，并具有自适应采样功能，为俄勒冈州海岸附近相互关联的地震、火山和热液过程、通量提供了新的见解。来自海底的甲烷、海底生物圈、蓝水和沿海海洋动力学和生态系统（例如缺氧、薄层、羽流）的高分辨率时间测量、生物地球化学相互作用，以及湍流混合。耐力阵列提供俄勒冈州和华盛顿州海岸的沿海上升流区域内的跨学科观测，提供对大东部边界流态的天气、多尺度观测，以及对陆架/斜坡养分交换、海气性质交换、碳的新见解。循环和海洋酸化。总而言之，OOI 测量提高了对影响气候变化、生态系统、渔业、地质灾害和海底环境的过程的理解，从而提高了负责明智管理海洋资源的决策者的能力。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并已被通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，认为值得支持。