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News Release 16-062
World Oceans Day: Bring the seas into your home; exploration is one click away
National Science Foundation Ocean Observatories Initiative links oceans, shore
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Watch a video showing Axial Seamount in the Pacific Ocean, via the Ocean Observatories Initiative.
Credit: NSF/OOI
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The OOI's seven arrays are deployed in key locations in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Credit: NSF/OOI/University of Washington Center for Environmental Visualization
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The NSF OOI cabled shallow profiler mooring science pod hovers above its docking station.
Credit: NSF-OOI/UW/ISS
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OOI cabled array instruments are affixed to El Gordo hydrothermal vent in the Pacific Ocean.
Credit: NSF/OOI/UW/ISS
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Off Washington, the coastal endurance inshore surface mooring collects Pacific Ocean data.
Credit: Craig Risien, OSU
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A coastal glider floats along the ocean surface, soon to sample water.
Credit: Craig Hayslip, OSU
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A surface buoy bobs in waves at the OOI Global Argentine Basin site in the Southern Hemisphere.
Credit: OOI coastal global nodes program Argentine Basin deployment team
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