Tuesday, February 3, 2009

NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative


"The oceans of earth are crucial to the quality of life on land. Yet they are mysterious, dangerous, and unexplored. Our mission is to launch a new era of human discovery in our oceans by providing electrical power and high speed internet connectivity throughout large portions of the global ocean. This novel solution will allow land-based scientists, engineers, educators and public to remotely interact with erupting volcanoes, migrating fish, major earthquakes, huge storms, powerful currents, massive blooms of microscopic life, and subtle climatic variability as if those humans were actually in the ocean environment."

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