OOI Science Plan: Exciting Opportunities using OOI Data
Observing Network (GOA-ON) Data Portal. The OOI partners with NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL), who deploy and maintain the surface mooring at Ocean Station Papa, while CGSN deploys and maintains the hybrid profiling mooring, two flanking moorings, and the gliders at the Papa site. In addition, the NOAA Tsunami Research Center is implementing a test program to incorporate real-time pressure data from the RCA to provide offshore information about tsunami events. Also NOAA, through the PMEL, funds annual ROVcruises to Axial Seamount. The results from these cruises complement OOI data and environmental characterization of this submarine volcano, which is poised to erupt again.
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Navy’s historical responsibility for ensuring freedom of the seas will depend increasingly upon access to oceanographic data, information, and global predictions.
B. International Partnerships and Collaborations Ocean Networks Canada (ONC, https:// www.oceannetworks.ca) has cabled and uncabled observatories in coastal waters and offshore of Vancouver Island, British Columbia on the northern Juan de Fuca plate and in the Arctic. The OOI’s RCA was designed to complement the ONC cable geometry by providing coverage of the southern Juan de Fuca plate. Committee memberships for both observatories share personnel to ensure close coordination. The Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) Institute of Ocean Sciences (IOS) in British Columbia has made observations in the Gulf of Alaska at the Station Papa site for decades and will continue to provide additional field sampling to verify OOI sensor measurements at that site.
NASA is committed to studying climate change on Earth and life on other planets. NASA’s satellite programs are an important complement to all ocean observing systems, including the OOI Network. Observations from satellites are primarily limited to measuring a suite of properties at the air-sea interface and in the nearsurface ocean. The OOI Network will provide a larger suite of subsurface time-series data. OOI data could be a source of in-situ data for NASA ocean color calibration, validation, and bio-optical algorithm development activities. Conversely, remote sensing data products may be used to validate OOI data. NASA’s EXPORT program in the north Pacific made use of the Global Array at Station Papa. In addition, NASA funded Principal Investigators (PIs) have built a state-of-the-art Raman and stereo imaging platform (InVADER) for installation on the RCA in 2021, in anticipation of future exobiology space missions (see Section 8.D).
IOOS (and the OOI) is the US’ contribution to the international Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) (https://www.goosocean.org), and GOOS contributes to the international Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) (https://www.earthobservations.org/ geoss.php). GEOSS was created to integrate observing systems and share data by connecting existing infrastructures using common standards. The OOI has contributed to GOOS’ Deep Ocean Observing Strategy (DOOS), which includes a global network of deep ocean observing sites. As part of these activities, the OOI’s Global Array sites have been included in OceanSITES (http://www.oceansites.org) planning. OceanSITES is a worldwide system of long-term, openocean reference stations and are a part of GOOS. The OOI Global Array in the Irminger Sea also collaborates with the international Overturning in the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (OSNAP). The Irminger Sea Flanking moorings are in line with OSNAP moorings on the eastern side of Greenland, with common instrumentation, and
Long term U.S. Navy funding of the oceanographic community has contributed to the development of technologies and methodologies being integrated into the OOI. Examples include the development of mobile platforms (AUVs and gliders), energy extraction systems, research ships, and command/control of remote systems. The OOI, in turn, will provide data and knowledge essential to operations in the world ocean. The 110
