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IOOS Ocean Technology Transition Program
				Six new multi-year grants announced for 2020.




Once the domain of ships and researchers at sea, new technologies are offering us ways to explore more of our ocean and coasts more often at lower cost. The U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System's (IOOS®) Ocean Technology Transition program, an ongoing multi-year cooperative grant initiative, is one effort working to meet the need for new technology and novel approaches to address ocean observing needs. OTT looks for developing ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes observing, product development, and data management technologies for which there is a known need and steps in to accelerate its transition to operations. These technologies include hardware and software platforms, sensors, and data management aimed at improving available ocean information to support decision making for the coastal ocean, and Great Lakes’ environments. For 2020, IOOS, in conjunction with the National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP), sought projects focused on regional coastal ocean observing systems and advancing data management and cyberinfrastructure for observations. Here are the grants awarded in 2020. Unmanned Surface Vehicle for Autonomous Hypoxia Monitoring  This project will operationalize water profiling capabilities on the L3Harris *C-Worker 5* autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) for deployment in the Gulf of Mexico. These small vehicles will increase the number of profiles that researchers gather in the summer, assisting NOAA’s annual requirement to map the mid-summer hypoxic zone. View Full Project Details     Advancing and integrating animal-borne tags into regional ocean observatories in the Northwest Atlantic  This project will help develop and test a new conductivity-, temperature-, and depth-logging animal-borne electronic tag. Deployed on blue and white sharks in the Mid-Atlantic Bight, data from these tags will increase the amount of available ocean data for weather forecasting.This project will develop a new conductivity-, temperature-, and depth-logging animal tag. View Full Project Details     Technology Transfer of a Surface pCO2 Flux Instrument for Autonomous Platform Applications  This project will further development of a carbon dioxide sensor small enough to fit on autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) and hardy enough to withstand the harsh conditions these vehicles can encounter. Carbon dioxide monitoring is mainly conducted by ships of opportunity which limits where and when sensors can be deployed. With added ASV capability, we could monitor more of the ocean more often. View Full Project Details     Launching WebCOOS: Webcams for Coastal Observations and Operational Support  This grant will transition the Web Camera Application Testbed (WebCAT) to a new, sustained network called *Webcams for Coastal Observations and Operational Support* (WebCOOS). Camera observations provide important visual data to understand resource use, validate run up models, and count wildlife. View Full Project Details     Autonomous Offshore HAB Sampling Surveys with the *Ocean Aero Triton* in the Pacific Northwest  This project will operationalize ongoing work to gather water samples for harmful algal bloom monitoring using autonomous surface vehicles. Sampling with the *Ocean Aero Triton* vehicle allows researchers to gather samples more frequently and in more locations than current methods permit. This diverse sampling capability will improve on the ability to detect and respond to HABs. View Full Project Details     Software Tools for the Mitigation of Wind Turbine Interference in the U.S. IOOS Network  This project will develop, test, and implement software to mitigate the interference of offshore wind turbines on oceanographic high-frequency radar (HFR) observations of surface currents. By preventing blind spots in the HFR national coverage due to this interference, this software will allow IOOS-sponsored surface current mapping and offshore wind energy installations to operate effectively alongside one another. View Full Project Details
 Learn more about IOOS Ocean Technology Transition, view past and current Projects, download documentation, and get answers to frequently asked questions: IOOS Ocean Technology Transition Project 2020 **Projects** Unmanned Surface Vehicle for Autonomous Hypoxia Monitoring Webcams for Coastal Observations and Operational Support Advancing and integrating animal-borne tags into regional ocean observatories in the Northwest Atlantic Technology Transfer of a Surface pCO2 Flux Instrument for Autonomous Platform Applications Autonomous Offshore HAB Sampling Surveys with the OceanAero Triton in the Pacific Northwest Software Tools for the Mitigation of Wind Turbine Interference in the U.S. IOOS Network   **Search** Our Stories    Get **Social** Social
 **Last updated:** 04/01/22 **Author:** NOAA How to cite this article Contact Us


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