Physics
Scientific paper
Apr 2003
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003eaeja....11585m&link_type=abstract
EGS - AGU - EUG Joint Assembly, Abstracts from the meeting held in Nice, France, 6 - 11 April 2003, abstract #11585
Physics
Scientific paper
With funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) will be installing a deep-sea observatory in Monterey Bay, California, that will serve as a test bed for a future regional-scale cabled observatory. Monterey Bay offers a variety of active processes for scientific inquiry, including a very productive zone of ocean upwelling, a seismically active strand of the San Andreas fault system, cold seeps, and a very dynamic submarine canyon. The MARS (Monterey Accelerated Research System) cable will extend more than 60 km offshore to an instrument node at a depth of approximately 1.2 km. Extension cords can be run by remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) from the cable node up to several kilometers away in order to provide greater flexibility in siting instruments. The observatory will be serviced using ROVs and will serve as a test bed for developing new sensors, instruments systems, experiment protocols, and mobile platforms for which submarine cables will provide power and two-way communications. In addition to serving as a test bed for instrumentation and platforms, the MARS project will demonstrate models for how to operate, service, and manage a community facility of this sort. In cooperation with our outreach partner, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, we will be examining ways to exploit the full potential of deep-sea observatories for student education and public information. We will also be preparing a proposal to the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) to provide a nearby drill hole for connecting bore-hole experiments to the MARS cable, thereby accelerating the development of new tools for probing Earth beneath the oceans.
Bellingham J.
Massion G.
McNutt Marcia
Paull Charles
Raybould Keith
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