


Gary Harkins
Principal Investigator
Mike Harrington
Senior Software Engineer
Tim McGinnis
Senior Ocean Engineer
Eric Strenge
Engineering Document Manager
Marvin Strenge
Principal Mechanical Engineer
Skip Denny
Principal Ocean Engineer
Jesse Dosher
Engineer
Steve Knudsen
Mechanical Engineer
Derrick Cote
Senior Software Engineer
Dana Manalang
Assistant System Engineer
James Tilley
Electrical Engineer
Mike Welch
Senior Engineer
Colin Sandwith
Principal Mechanical Engineer
Larry Nielson
Field Engineer


National Science
Foundatation (NSF)
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The University of Washington's Regional Scale Nodes or RSN of the NSF OOI will extend continuous high-bandwidth (tens of Gigabits/second) and power (tens of kilowatts) to a network of instruments widely distributed across, above, and below the seafloor in the northeast Pacific Ocean.
The University of Washington was selected to begin leading the regional component of the NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative: The Regional Scale Nodes (RSN). This cabled underwater research facility will be constructed off the Oregon and Washington coastlines.
The RSN will extend continuous high-bandwidth (tens of Gigabits/second) and power (tens of kilowatts) to a network of instruments widely distributed across, above and below the seafloor in the northeast Pacific Ocean.
As the world's first ocean observatory to span a tectonic plate, this facility will provide a constant stream of data in real time from the ocean, on the seafloor, and below the seafloor within the Juan de Fuca plate.
UW OOI Regional Component Home Page - www.ooi.washington.edu
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The oceans of Earth are crucial to the quality of life on land. Yet they are mysterious, dangerous, and unexplored. The mission of the NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative is to launch a new era of human discovery within the world's oceans through electrical power and high speed internet connectivity in large portions of the global ocean. Land-based scientists, engineers, educators, and the public will remotely interact with ocean events as if they were actually in the ocean environment-events such as erupting volcanoes, migrating fish, major earthquakes and storms, powerful currents, blooms of microscopic life, and subtle climatic variability. See www.ooi.washington.edu and click on "Press Release."
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Location of high power and bandwidth moorings with profiling capabilities on the RSN. One mooring will be placed at the base of Axial Seamount, providing measurements key to examining flow over rough topography, El Nino and La Nina events, and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. A second mooring will be located at the base of the accretionary margin outboard from Hydrate Ridge. This mooring forms an array with three surface and three subsurface (two of which are cabled to the RSN) moorings that are part of the Coastal Scale Endurance Array.
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