Core Measurements & Instrumentation

The OOI Infrastructure includes more than 800 sensors of 49 sensor types measuring physical, biological, chemical, and geological parameters.

Four Global sites consist of surface buoys, flanking moorings, profiler moorings, and gliders:

(Click to enlarge) Credit: OOI Regional Scale Nodes program and the Center for Environmental Visualization, University of Washington

The Endurance Array consists of surface buoys, profiler moorings, benthic packages, and gliders. Some moorings are cabled to the Regional Scale Array:

(Click to enlarge) Credit: Jack Cook, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

The Regional Scale Array consists of cabled nodes, seafloor instrumentation and profiler moorings:

(Click to enlarge) Credit: OOI Regional Scale Nodes program and the Center for Environmental Visualization, University of Washington

The Pioneer Array consists of surface buoys, profiler moorings, benthic packages, gliders, and AUVs.

(Click to enlarge) Credit: Jack Cook, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution