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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