The OOI program is managed through the OOI Program Office housed within the Consortium for Ocean Leadership in Washington, D.C. Ocean Leadership is a not-for-profit corporation of member institutions (universities or other nonprofit institutions, organizations, or governmental entities involved in oceanographic sciences or related fields and that are organized for educational or scientific purposes). Ocean Leadership has contracted with four Implementing Organizations (IOs) for the development, construction, and operation of the OOI.
There is one IO for the coastal and global nodes, another for the regional nodes, as well as one for the cyberinfrastructure that connects the nodes together into an integrated observatory. A fourth implementing partner for building related education and public engagement infrastructure will be identified through a competitive procurement process conducted during mid-2010. The figure shows the responsibilities of Ocean Leadership and each IO in the execution of the OOI project.
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The OOI Program Office is advised by the Program Advisory Committee, which reports to the Ocean Leadership Board of Trustees Executive Committee.
Key Personnel
Ocean Leadership
Tim Cowles, Program Director
Susan Banahan, Associate Director
Anthony Ferlaino, Project Manager
Steven Ackleson, Senior Project Scientist
Cyberinfrastructure IO: University of California, San Diego
John Orcutt, Principal Investigator
Frank Vernon, Deputy Principal Investigator
Matthew Arrott, Project Manager
Alan Chave (WHOI), Systems Engineer
Oscar Schofield (Rutgers), Project Scientist
Coastal/Global IO: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Oregon State University
Bob Weller, Principal Investigator
Jim Trees, Senior Program Manager
Libby Signell, Project Manager
Bob Collier (OSU), Deputy Project Manager
Jack Barth (OSU), Project Scientist
Al Plueddemann, Project Scientist
Uwe Send (SIO), Project Scientist
Regional IO: University of Washington
John Delaney, Principal Investigator
Pete Barletto, Project Manager
Chuck McGuire, Systems Engineer
Deb Kelley, Project Scientist
Doug Luther (Univ. of Hawaii), Project Scientist
Kendra Daly (Univ. of South Florida), Project Scientist
Education and Public Engagement IO: Rutgers University
Scott Glenn, Principal Investigator
Mike Crowley, Project Manager
Janice McDonnell, Project Educator
Sage Lichtenwalner, Lead Developer
Joe Wieclawek, Raytheon Systems Engineer
Annette deCharon, University of Maine Interactive Tools Coordinator
