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NOPP U-Scan Scotscar Jones Rutgers University
Coastal Ocean Observation Lab (RU COOL) Special
thanks to our numerous partners
Science web site http//marine.rutgers.edu/cool
Operational web site http//www.thecoolroom.org
Educational web site http//www.coolclassroom.org
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What lessons did we learn from our early attempts
to study the ocean?
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Looking at Observatories Now and in the Future

• Globally
• Networks of deep-sea buoys for
• harsh ocean environments
• Regionally
• Networks of cabled observatories
• on the seafloor
• Within the coastal ecosystem
• Networks of coastal ocean observatories

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Growing U.S. National Initiatives
The ocean sciences are now on the threshold of
another major technological advance as the
scientific community begins to establish a
global, long term presence in the ocean
Robert Detrich National Research Council
Enabling Ocean research in the 21st Century
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30 X 30 km LEO CPSE An Integrated Observatory
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New Jersey Shelf Observing System (NJ-SOS)
300 X 300 km NJSOS An Integrated Sustained
Observatory
Satellites,
RADAR, Gliders
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NEOS The NorthEast Observing System since 2000
18 Operating CODAR HF Radars
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The History LEO-15 (30 x 30 km) Science Focus
Sediment Transport and Hypoxia/Anoxia Observation
Network Local Ocean Observatories The
Present NJ SOS (300 x 300 km) Science Focus
Shelf, productivity patterns, land-ocean
interactions and episodic events Observation
Network Shelf Observing Systems The Future
NEOS (3000 x 3000 km) Science Focus Changing
ecosystems and global change Observation
Network Regional Observing Systems
LEO-15
NJ SOS
NEOS
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Coastal Oceanography - The Later Years
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UMaine/Bigelow Physical/Optical Mooring
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Tanker runs aground off Cape May, NJ
At approximately 0715 EDT the T/V CRUDE TARGET
grounded while enroute into Delaware Bay. The
position of the ship is 3848.5 N / 07437.3 W or
approximately 13 miles ESE of Cape May, NJ. The
ship is carrying 42 million gallons of West
African Crude For comparison, the Exxon Valdez
spilled about 11 million gallons of the 53
million gallons of crude oil it was carrying
For this particular incident, we went to the
Rutgers CODAR site, to help with the calibration.
The web site provided not only data but valuable
analysis on the data. Through a phone number
provided on the web site I also contacted Josh
Kohut who was very helpful in providing
additional information concerning the real-time
data as well as personal observations of how the
coastal currents typically behave off the New
Jersey coastline. - Glen
Watabayashi Oceanographer
(NOAA/OPR/HAZMAT)
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The COOLroom Operational Collaboratory
COOLroom Skunk Works Model
COOLroom War Room Model
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Adaptive Sampling Platforms Ships and Boats
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Ship-to-Shore Communications
Towed Instruments
Profiling Instruments
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Adaptive Sampling with Aircraft Sensors
Spectral Technology Innovation Research SPECTIR
NOAA Citation PHILLS II
NASA AVIRIS
Antanov NRL PHILLS
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Adaptive Sampling with REMUS AUVs at
LEO Manufactured by Hydroid
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Coastal Ocean Observation Lab Observatory Control
Room The COOLRoom
CODAR Network
Glider Fleet
X-Band
L-Band
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Data Distribution Route Map
L-Band Satellite CODAR X-Band Satellite
GLIDER AUV
U. Maine
Rutgers
UMass, Dart.
URI
Applied Math
U. Wisconsin
USCG RD
Johns Hopkins
UConn
CODAR
Metron, Inc.
NPS
OceanTemp.com
UNC, Chapel Hill
UCSB
SIO
UT, Austin
NAVOCEANO
Mote Marine Lab
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Visualizing the observatory in real-time over the
web.
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Lagrangian studies of the transport
transformation and biological impact of nutrients
and contaminant metals in a buoyant plume a
process study in an operational ocean
observatory.
Robert Chant1, John Reinfelder1, Scott Glenn1,
Oscar Schofield1, John Wilkin1, Bob Houghton1,
Bob Chen3, Meng Zhou3, Mark Moline4, Paul
Bissett5 ,Tom Frazer6.
1Rutgers,2 Lamont-Doherty, 3U. Mass Boston,
4FERI, 5Calpoly, 6U. Fla. Gainsville
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The Process Study
Dye Study (Houghton)
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Fleets of interactive smart Gliders
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I walk into our control room, with its panoply
of views of the sea. There are the updated global
pictures from the remote sensors on satellites,
there the evolving maps of subsurface variables,
there the charts that show the position and
status of all our Slocum scientific platforms,
and I am satisfied that we are looking at the
ocean more intensely and more deeply than anyone
anywhere else. - Henry
Stommel, The SLOCUM Mission 1989
We shall not cease from exploration. And the end
of all our exploring, Will be to arrive where we
started And know the place for the first time.
T.S. Elliot