EU - US Research Infrastructure October 1, 2010 Ocean Observatories Initiative Building collaborations in ocean observing: The view from the OOI Tim Cowles Principal Investigator, Program Director
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Ocean Observatories Initiative
Building collaborations in ocean observing:
The view from the OOI
Tim CowlesPrincipal Investigator, Program Director
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What is the OOI?
A system of systems that will document,
for 25-30 years,
air-sea, water column and seafloor processes,
across full ocean depths, using the best technical
solutions available.
Funded by NSF, managed by Consortium for Ocean Leadership
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OOI timeline 2000-2009
Project office formed
Conceptual Design Review
Baseline review
Preliminary Design Review
Final Design Review
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OOI timeline 2000-2009
Project office formed
Conceptual Design Review
Baseline review
Preliminary Design Review
Final Design Review
Guided by scientists
Guided by systems engineering and funding
realities
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OOI Science Themes
• Ocean-Atmosphere Exchange• Climate Variability, Ocean Circulation, and Ecosystems• Turbulent Mixing and Biophysical Interactions • Coastal Ocean Dynamics and Ecosystems• Fluid-Rock Interactions and the Sub-seafloor Biosphere• Plate-scale, Ocean Geodynamics
Overarching Science Foci
• Climate change• Carbon cycling • Ocean acidification• Ocean ecosystem health
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Science Requirements arise from Science Themes
• Science Question
• Processes to be observed
• Spatial Scale
• Temporal Scale
• Measurements Required
• Sensors Required
• Sampling Requirements
• Site(s) Required for Science
• Experiment Description
Requirements drive the
infrastructure and its
capabilities
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Baseline Design
• 4 Global sites
• 3 Regional cabled sites in the NE Pacific
• 2 Coastal arrays: Mid-Atlantic Pioneer Array, PNW Endurance Array
• Each scale incorporates fixed and mobile assets
• Cyberinfrastructure: enables adaptive sampling, custom observatory views, collaborative analysis
• Interfaces for education users
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OOI in the Global Context
Global CO2 flux Takahashi et al (2009)
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Challenges
•We are building infrastructures at different times and at different rates that must have many types of ‘interoperability’
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EU - US collaboration in ocean observing
Challenges
•We are building infrastructures at different times and at different rates that must have many types of ‘interoperability’
•How to share ‘lessons learned’ from planning, initial engineering, etc
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EU - US collaboration in ocean observing
Challenges
•We are building infrastructures at different times and at different rates that must have many types of ‘interoperability’
•How to share ‘lessons learned’ from planning, initial engineering, etc
•Lack of visibility/awareness by the creative designers (scientists) of the administrative barriers
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EU - US collaboration in ocean observing
Challenges
•We are building infrastructures at different times and at different rates that must have many types of ‘interoperability’
•How to share ‘lessons learned’ from planning, initial engineering, etc
•Lack of visibility/awareness by the creative designers (scientists) of the administrative barriers
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EU - US collaboration in ocean observing
Overcoming Challenges
Build upon existing relationships among programs
•Within IOC
•Within WMO
• Informal interactions: for example, OOI investigators
serve on advisory committees for OceanSITES and
EuroSITES, attend meetings of ESONET, EMSO
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Key opportunities during observing system
development
• Interoperability across systems
•Data protocols - work progressing in several areas
•Open access to data - established policy for the OOI
• Instrument interfaces (hardware and software) - requires
substantial technical specification and collaboration
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Successes in interoperability lead to
Shared outcomes for collaborative partners
•Products of non-recurring engineering
• Integration of engineering systems with common
standards and protocols
• Integration of data systems with common standards and
protocols
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Collaboration Opportunities
Successful observatory collaborations will build
upon...• Shared or coordinated timetables for planning, approval,
and funding
• Facilitation of intergovernmental / interagency processes
• Open exchange of information - scientists, engineers,
agency managers
• Explicit opportunities for scientific participation by the ocean
sciences community
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Recommendations
•Create opportunities for exchange of technical details of observatories - beyond the current scientist to scientist collaboration
• Formalize the outcomes of the informal interactions regarding ‘interoperability’
•Extend the discussions of open access to observatory data
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Acknowledgements
Progress in ocean observing is due to over 20 years of
creative thinking by the international community of ocean
scientists, and the support of the various funding agencies
that have taken risks to enable dreams to be transformed into
working infrastructure.
Particular thanks to the National Science Foundation for its
commitment to the development of the Ocean Observing
Initiative
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Coastal and Global Scale Nodes (CGSN)
Global
Pioneer
Endurance
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Regional Scale
OOI assets off PNW coast are unique
Cable provides high power and bandwidth to
- Instrumented nodes on Juan de Fuca plate
- full water column moorings at Axial Volcano and Hydrate Ridge
- 2 moorings of Endurance Array connected to the cable
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Creates an interactive ocean laboratory integrated by a leading-edge, multi-scalar software tools.
Creates an interactive ocean laboratory integrated by a leading-edge, multi-scalar software tools.
Cyberinfrastructure
open access...
fueling science, education, and policy
open access...
fueling science, education, and policy
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Construction Challenges
Transition from planning to building
•Must have systems engineering practices in place
•Make sure business processes can accommodate 5
to 10-fold increase - contracts, funding, personnel
Preparing for the pace of construction
•Sufficient numbers of skilled staff
•Vetted schedules
Planning team may not be the building team