MBARI, with funding from NOAA through the Center for Integrated Marine Technologies, has deployed a mooring in Monterey Bay to collect and disseminate environmental information in near real-time. The information and technology used are critical for developing regional observatories. The location of the mooring was chosen to observe the blooms that form in Monterey Bay in response to coastal upwelling and complements MBARI moorings M1 and M2 which are further from shore.
The mooring is running and testing many new technologies that have been developed at MBARI. These technologies include the MOOS Mooring Controller (MMC), Software Infrastructure and Applications for MOOS (SIAM), and the Shore Side Data System (SSDS).
The MMC makes continuous physical, chemical and biological observations of the ocean environment with existing or new instruments. These observations are stored locally in the MMC, until forwarded to shore or ship based facilities by packet radio. The MMC includes design features to minimize power consumption and provide all the services necessary to support a local or remote oceanographic platform.
SIAM is a plug-and-work architecture designed to provide uniform data handling for all the instruments on the mooring.
SSDS is configured to receive data from the mooring and other instrumentation, and provide access to that data in near real time.
The pages available via the navigation links (at the left side of this page) show some of the data available from this new environmental observing station in the Monterey Bay.
Other data is also available from the CIMT program. The UC Santa Cruz CIMT web site provides access to another CIMT data set. Please visit it as well.