NCSA Aids Development of Ocean Observatory Cyberinfrastructure
released 10.01.04
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University of California, San Diego
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University of Washington
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ARLINGTON, VA —
The National Science Foundation (NSF) today awarded $3.9 million over four years to the University of Washington (UW), the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and partner institutions that include the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) to build the Laboratory for the Ocean Observatory Knowledge Integration Grid (LOOKING). The grant is the largest of nearly 120 awards from the agency's Information Technology Research (ITR) program this year.
Participating institutions will collaborate on experimental wireless, optical networks and grid technology, including development of web services, networking protocols, devices, and sensors. The prototype grid will eventually link communities of oceanographers via high-speed wireless and optical networks to observatories off the coasts of Mexico, the United States, and Canada.
"A number of projects are already under way to deploy ocean observatories and sensors in the Pacific Ocean to permit in situ ocean research," said John Delaney, principal investigator and a professor of oceanography at the University of Washington. "This grant will allow us to make that research interactive by providing an essential architecture for the software, hardware and network services that will enable routine ocean access to researchers, educators, students, and the general public."
Institutions participating in the LOOKING project include the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering, Oregon State University, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, CANARIE, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, University of Victoria, CalPoly, University of Illinois at Chicago's Electronic Visualization Laboratory, and Mexico's Center for Scientific Research and Graduate Studies of Ensenada (CICESE).
