The ALOHA/MARS mooring sensor network combines adaptive sampling methods with a moored deep-ocean sensor network.
The ALOHA/MARS mooring sensor network combines adaptive sampling methods with a moored deep-ocean sensor network.

A test version of the mooring system was installed 26 June 2007 in Puget Sound in 100 ft of water, attached to the Seahurst Observatory seahurst.apl.washington.edu. The ocean deployment of the mooring system on the MARS Observatory in Monterey Bay is now scheduled for spring 2008.

This project will demonstrate the scientific potential of combining adaptive sampling methods with a moored deep-ocean sensor network at the MARS Observatory. We will directly address the challenge of sampling the ocean with both high temporal resolution and high vertical resolution. With the moored sensor network consisting of a profiler moving between near-surface and abyssal fixed sensors under program control, we will be able to focus the sampling and measurement capabilities on the scientific features of most interest.

The long term goal is to deploy similar moorings at the Aloha Cabled Observatory and the Hawaii Ocean Time-Series (HOT) station, north of Oahu, and on the cabled nodes of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) of the Ocean Research Interactive Observatory Networks (ORION). This project is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and managed by NSF and the Joint Oceanographic Institutions (JOI).



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