OOI Brochure

Data Tools Community Developed Tools: The OOI website includes an ever-expanding set of resources developed and shared by the OOI user community. Shared resources include Python scripts, Jupyter notebooks, and libraries to help users transform raw OOI data into more usable forms, create plots of OOI datasets, and process files.

Video Tutorials and Knowledge Base: Users looking for more information about the OOI, its instruments, and how to access and use OOI datasets, can check out the OOI Knowledge Base and introductory video tutorials on the OOI website.

Research and Funding Opportunities: As an open community resource, OOI offers a tremendous opportunity to address specific scientific hypotheses,

Staff Consultations: For those interested in submitting a proposal, consultations are available with OOI operations staff. They can discuss technical requirements and answer any questions you may have about the addition of

through NSF core programs and through other agencies to test hypotheses or explore questions based on OOI data.

help@oceanobservatories.org to schedule a consultation.

Increasing Knowledge

Scientists are encouraged to propose new applications

The OOI is making it possible to measure and directly

and approaches, including, activities such as:

observe both short-lived episodic events and longer-term changes occurring in the ocean, making it possible to

connection of new instruments and platforms

The OOI offers three ways to become involved:

instrumentation and platforms onto the OOI arrays. Contact

or to augment existing research projects. The National Science Foundation encourages scientists to seek funding

How to Become Involved

Sustained data to power your research

better understand ocean processes.

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DATA ACCESS

SOFTWARE AND TOOLS

RESEARCH COLLABORATION

Visit oceanobservatories.org to learn more.

onto the observatory As designed, the OOI is facilitating fundamental, modification of sampling rates and missions for

interdisciplinary research that can contribute to

existing instrumentation

building knowledge about:

execution of ancillary work during normally

Climate variability, ocean food webs, and

scheduled OOI cruises, including supplemental

biogeochemical cycles

analysis of collected water samples testing specific hypotheses with OOI data, and creation of educational programs using both OOI infrastructure and data.

Coastal ocean dynamics and ecosystems Global and plate-scale geodynamics

OOI is managed by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and implemented by WHOI, the University of Washington, Oregon State University, and Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey.

Turbulent mixing and biophysical interactions Fluid-rock interactions and the sub-seafloor biosphere

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What is OOI?

How OOI Works

Data Access

The OOI is a National Science Foundation-funded program,

OOI has three major observatory elements linked together by

The OOI provides users with direct, continuous, and

with facilities based on the east and west coast, which

instrument, infrastructure, and information management systems.

free access to its archive of ocean observing data.

deliver data and data products from more than 800 ocean-based instruments. This information is used

Global Ocean Arrays: Moored arrays and mobile assets

to address critical science questions regarding our

provide time-series observations and mesoscale spatial

understanding of the world’s oceans.

sampling at sparsely sampled, high-latitude regions critical to our understanding of climate, carbon cycle, and ocean

The OOI focuses on acquiring high resolution time-series

circulation. (Irminger Sea and Station Papa. Data available from

measurements at important, community-chosen

decommissioned arrays in Argentine Basin and Southern Ocean).

experimental sites and obtaining broad spatial coverage using mobile platforms. The program includes fixed

Regional Cabled Array: Fiber-optic cables off the Oregon coast

instruments, instrumented moorings, and autonomous

provide unprecedented power, bandwidth, and communication

underwater vehicles in U.S coastal waters and the open

to seafloor instrumentation and profiler moorings, enabling

ocean. These instruments gather physical, chemical,

monitoring of volcanic and hydrothermal activity, methane

geological, and biological data – from the atmosphere

seeps, earthquakes, and myriad ocean processes in coastal

to the seafloor.

and blue water environments.

Scientists, educators, students, and laypersons are using

Coastal Arrays: Cross-shelf moored arrays and mobile assets

OOI data to enhance their understanding of the ocean to

observe the dynamic coastal environment enabling examination

better address critical issues such as climate change,

of upwelling, shelf break fronts, and cross-shelf exchanges.

ecosystem variability, earthquakes, submarine volcanism,

(Endurance and Pioneer Arrays).

ocean acidification, and carbon cycling.

allows users to access virtual observatories of suites of sensors

reach will ensure that the U.S research community has

to answer science questions and perform in situ experiments,

the infrastructure needed to maintain its leadership role

while transmitting real-to near real-time data to shore. Data

in Earth and ocean sciences for decades to come.

collected meet the IOOS Quality Assurance of Real Time Ocean Data (QARTOD) standards.

COLLECTING CONTINUOUS DATA

in one or more ways: Data Portal: Search through OOI sites and platforms, by location and depth ERDDAP Server: Access downloadable subsets of OOI datasets in common file formats Raw Data Archive: Acess raw datasets as received directly from an instrument Analytical Data Archive: Retrieve processed analytical data and metadata for fluid and particulate samples collected by cabled array instruments

Cyberinfrastructure: An information management system

The flexibility of data gathering approaches and OOI’s

5 ARRAYS

Anyone with an Internet connection can access data

80+ PLATFORMS

800 INSTRUMENTS

DEPLOYED, 30 DIFFERENT TYPES MEASURING MORE THAN 200 DIFFERENT PARAMETERS

CONSISTING OF MOORINGS, CABLED NODES AND MOORINGS AND VEHICLES

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4TB OF DATA DOWNLOADED EACH MONTH