What drives coastal flooding during storms?
Using data from the OOI Pioneer Array, researchers found the New England shelfbreak jet accounted for nearly 30% of sea level variability during storm surges.
🔗 Learn more: https://t.co/vIbKL3lsGl
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Tiny deep-sea foraminifera are colonizing plastic debris thousands of meters below the surface. New research using OOI platforms shows plastics may become long-term habitats that influence deep-sea biodiversity and ocean chemistry.
Read more: https://t.co/c1DYeTJSoP #NSFFunded
Pioneer 23 returned to WHOI after a major recovery success in the Mid-Atlantic Bight! 🌊 Using the OOI ROV, the team successfully recovered critical SEPM mooring infrastructure from the seafloor.
📷: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)
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The Central Surface Mooring is now deployed in the Mid-Atlantic Bight! 🌊 Onboard, the Imaging FloCytoBot is capturing microscopic ocean life—revealing plankton dynamics, ecosystem health, and changing ocean conditions.
Follow Pioneer 23: https://t.co/1TUKeQV6NI
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Pioneer23 has been hard at work since departing @whoi_ocean on April 25.
Northern Surface Mooring (NOSM) has now remained at sea for over a year—far beyond its typical deployment—while continuing to deliver critical ocean and weather data.
Updates: https://t.co/1TUKeQV6NI
New funding for Deb Kelley (UW) and Jonathan Sharp (CICOES/NOAA PMEL) will integrate 10+ years of OOI Regional Cabled Array data into machine learning models to improve Pacific Northwest coastal forecasting.
Learn more: https://t.co/czoIEhzP1X
#OceanScience#OOI
🌊 Infrastructure Feature: AUVs
AUVs are self-propelled vehicles that move sensors through the ocean in 3D.
⚙️ Propellers + thrusters; ~1.7 m/s (up to ~2.5 m/s)
📡 Multi-sensor, long-range; GPS at surface
🌎 OOI Endurance & Pioneer Arrays
📸 Sheri N. White, @WHOI#NSFfunded
🌊 Call for Participation: 2026 OOIFB Community Workshop
Join us for a 2.5-day workshop on science & education using OOI Global Arrays data - centered on “A Decade of OOI Data in the Global Ocean.”
🗓️ Apply by May 12, 2026
👉 https://t.co/hQ2skoNZ7v
🌊 Meet part of the infrastructure behind OOI’s ocean observations: Gliders
⚙️ Buoyancy-driven, they rise/sink and “fly” (~25–35 cm/s)
📡 Surface for GPS + data transfer
🌎 Used across OOI arrays
📷 Sheri N. White, @WHOI#NSFfunded
What if subsea cables could listen to the Earth?
UW + Nokia Bell Labs used DAS on the NSF OOI RCA to turn fiber cables into sensors for quakes, waves, and marine life.
Read more: https://t.co/LZ5jqDMxyJ
🗺️: Z. Krauss, UW.
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🌊 April is Citizen Science Month!
The Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) offers free, open ocean data 🌍📊
Analyze, track change, build models & tools.
Explore the ocean—your way.
🔗 https://t.co/ki8sXNufZ9
#NSFFunded#CitizenScience#OceanScience
🌊 OOI Endurance Array Virtual Office Hours – Tomorrow!
📅 April 1
🕛 12 PM ET / 9 AM PT
🔗 https://t.co/8sMXk8Sph6
Drop in, ask questions, and connect with the team—join anytime!
#NSFFunded#OOIDataMatters#OceanScience
OOI joined the first of four webinars focused on Imaging FlowCytobot (IFCB) applications.
Focus: best practices for deployment, infrastructure, and data quality.
👉Read the full article: https://t.co/1rvqlJNWvc
#NSFFunded#OOI#IFCB
OOI’s greatest strengths include training the next generation of ocean scientists.
Through UW’s VISIONS program, students gain hands-on experience during OOI RCA cruises - using advanced tech and data to drive new discoveries.
🔗 https://t.co/kJFBucJSsI
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👀 It’s Friday the 13th…
Deep-sea hydrothermal vents are some of the ocean’s most mysterious places - where superheated fluids rise from the seafloor and life thrives in darkness.
Explore ocean data: https://t.co/W2Xj8mvwNe
📸: WHOI, ROV Jason
🔬 Science Highlight: Carbon in the ocean’s twilight zone
Using EXPORTS and OOI data from Station Papa, researchers studied carbon cycling at 100–500 m depth and found supply didn’t balance demand.
🌊 Read more: https://t.co/UcItsvvmkz
#NSFFunded#OOIDataMatters#CarbonCycle
Got questions about OOI data? Join our March Virtual Office Hours 🌊
📅 Mar 10 | ⏰ 3–4 PM ET
🔗 https://t.co/0qS1vtzHxH
Get help with OOI data access, visualization, and downloads from the Pioneer & Global Arrays Data Team at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
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At #OSM2026, Jim Edson, Lead PI of OOI, presented an overview of more than a decade of biogeochemical & physical ocean data collected through OOI observatory.
A clear takeaway from this morning’s session: sustained observations remain foundational to ocean science.
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The OOI booth is set up and ready at Ocean Sciences in Scotland! Come visit us at Booth #124.
Explore our open-access, real-time data spanning coastal to deep-ocean environments.
#OceanSciences#OOI#OceanObserving#MarineScience#OSM2026