OCEAN
SCIENCE
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ROV
Deployable and Recoverable Science Node |
L-3 MariPro is actively involved
in the Ocean Science business area and is providing ROV deployable
and recoverable science
node design, manufacturing and system test capability to the North
East Pacific Time-Series Undersea Networked Experiments (NEPTUNE)
Canada project.
When completed, NEPTUNE Canada will
be the world’s
largest cable-linked seafloor observatory. It will expand the boundaries
of ocean exploration and give oceanographers a new way of studying
and understanding our oceans. NEPTUNE Canada is
the first part of a joint Canada – US venture led by the
University of Victoria in British Columbia and by the University
of Washington School of Oceanography Implementing Organization
in the US as part of the overall Ocean Observatories Initiative
(OOI) funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
When completed NEPTUNE Canada and
the Regional Scale Nodes (RSN) will instrument selected sites of
scientific interest on the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate, a 200,000
sq km region in the northeast Pacific off the coasts of British
Columbia, Washington and Oregon.
Cabled ocean observatories will provide virtually unlimited power
and high bandwidth for long term (25-year) real-time all-the-time
access to experiments and data archives allowing high temporal
and spatial measurements to be conducted across a diverse set of
oceanographic disciplines.
Prior to NEPTUNE Canada, L-3 MariPro
participated as an industrial partner to the Monterey Bay Aquarium
Research Institute’s (MBARI’s) Monterey Accelerated
Research System (MARS) project. L-3 MariPro engineers designed,
manufactured and delivered the ROV deployable and recoverable
science node mechanical hardware to the MARS project office.
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