Innovation: Non-OBSIP Seismic Instrumentation Projects
In addition to supporting conventional passive- and active-source OBS experiments for OBSIP amounting to 919 deployments and recoveries, the WHOI OBS group has undertaken innovative work to advance a wide range other areas of seafloor seismic study and instrumentation.
![Pilot Pilot project](https://web.whoi.edu/obslab/wp-content/uploads/sites/98/2017/08/Pilot-300x217.png)
1998: Ocean Seismic Network Pilot Experiment
An experiment to from late January to early June of 1998 to designed to learn how to make sustained, high-quality, broadband seismic measurements in the deep oceans. MORE (pdf)
![AcousticMoored AcousticMoored](https://web.whoi.edu/obslab/wp-content/uploads/sites/98/2017/08/AcousticMoored-300x282.jpg)
2004-2005: Acoustically-Linked Moored Buoy Observatory
A buoy-based ocean observatory using acoustic communication to retrieve data from sensors in the water column and on the seafloor out to ranges of three kilometers from the buoy. MORE (pdf)
![Lighthouse Lighthouse](https://web.whoi.edu/obslab/wp-content/uploads/sites/98/2017/08/Lighthouse-300x215.jpg)
2006-2007: Lighthouse® Realtime Seafloor Seismic Station
The WHOI OBS Lab was contracted by Lighthouse, Inc., to design, build, and help deploy two real-time seismic stations in the Gulf of Oman connected by an 80 km fiber-optic cable. MORE (pdf)
![Keck1 Keck1](https://web.whoi.edu/obslab/wp-content/uploads/sites/98/2017/08/Keck1-300x165.png)
2008-2009: Keck Combined Strong-Motion/Broadband OBS
W.M. Keck Foundation-funded effort to determine the physical mechanisms responsible for the observed capability to predict, using foreshocks, large (Mw ~6) transform-fault earthquakes at the East Pacific Rise, and to gain greater insight into the fundamentals of earthquake mechanics in general. MORE (pdf)
![obs and remus obs and remus](https://web.whoi.edu/obslab/wp-content/uploads/sites/98/2017/08/obs-and-remus-300x240.jpg)
2015-: Seismic Data Retrieval Using an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle and High-Speed Optical Telemetry
Combining recent advances in optical telemetry and marine robotics, coupled with the availability of COTS low-power seismic sensors, data loggers and atomic clocks to enable multi-year deployments of OBS arrays that capable of delivering high-frequency, accurately-timed seismic data to shore with data latencies of hours to days without OBS recovery. MORE (pdf)
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2016-: Keck Realtime Seismic/Geodetic Borehole Station
W.M. Keck Foundation-funded effort to design and build a seafloor geodesy observatory for deployment above the rupture zone of the next M9 Cascadia earthquake. MORE (pdf)