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Summary

A Ocean Leadership Ocean Observing Activities Program-sponsored workshop to discuss the status and engineering challenges of advancing profiler mooring technology was held July 10 - 12, 2007 in Denver, Colorado.  Profilers are essential to the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) infrastructure and the current OOI Conceptual Network Design calls for highly capable cabled and uncabled profiling moorings in coastal, deep-water, and remote high-latitude environments.  The goals of the workshop were to (1) assess the current status of profiling mooring capabilities, including development in progress, (2) compare the current capabilities to the program’s expectations and requirements for profiling moorings, and (3) provide recommendations for further development, where needed.  

The workshop participants included 29 U.S. and international academic researchers, engineers, and representatives from industry who have developed or have an interest in profiling moorings. The workshop was a unique opportunity for collaboration and information sharing among these groups.

The workshop opened with a brief status report on the evolution of the OOI Conceptual Network Design, followed by a series of presentations on profiler mooring technology currently available or under development. Speakers provided profiler characteristics, including information on the availability, platform type, power and bandwidth capabilities, operational conditions, surface area to support different sensors, and possible integration of new sensor packages to reduce space, power, and bandwidth requirements of each profiler.  In addition there was a talk on sensors currently available for use on profilers and a discussions on “lessons learned” for from profiling mooring development and deployment.   

The participants then divided into three working groups to compare current profiler mooring capabilities with the needs of the OOI for (1) cabled profilers (shelf and deepwater), (2) uncabled shelf profilers, and (3) uncabled deep water profilers.  Working groups utilized several science use case scenarios that link the OOI science needs with the available profiler technology to develop a set of recommendations for the short and long term requirements of profiling moorings.

Meeting Materials

•    Participant List 
•    Agenda

Presentations

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Organizing Committee

Kendra Daly, University of South Florida (Chair)
Doug Au, MBARI
Scott Gallager, WHOI
Doug Luther, University of Hawaii