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MRI: Offshore Earthquake Monitoring at Subduction Zones Using Autonomous Underwater Vehicles and High-Speed Optical Telemetry For Data Retrieval

This research project was funded by National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation Award number 1532035. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution contributed a 30% cost share.

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NSF Program(s):
OCE
Division Of Ocean Sciences Major Research Instrumentation,
OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN
Award Number: 1532035
Investigator(s):
John Collins (Principal Investigator)
Jeffrey McGuire (Co-Principal Investigator)
Michael Purcell (Co-Principal Investigator)
Jonathan Ware (Co-Principal Investigator)
Norman Farr (Co-Principal Investigator)
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Project Participants

Publications

  • J. Kaeli, G. Packard, C. Fiester, D. Tebo and M. Purcell, "A Range-Only Acoustic Localization Technique for Marine Robotics Applications," OCEANS 2019 MTS/IEEE SEATTLE, Seattle, WA, USA, 2019, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.23919/OCEANS40490.2019.8962765.
  • C. McRaven, Pelletier, L., Ware, J., Gardner, A., Farr, N., Collins, J., and Purcell, M., "Wireless Retrieval of High-Rate Ocean Bottom Seismograph Data and Time Synchronization Using the WHOI Optical Modem and REMUS AUV," OCEANS 2019 - Marseille, Marseille, France, 2019, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.1109/OCEANSE.2019.8867409.
  • G. Packard, Collins, J., Farr, N., Fiester, C., Gardner, A., Grund, M., Kaeli, J., McRaven, C., Pelletier, L., Purcell, M., Tebo, D., and Ware, J., "New AUV Adaptive Behaviors for Subsea Data Exfiltration," OCEANS 2019 MTS/IEEE SEATTLE, Seattle, WA, USA, 2019, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.23919/OCEANS40490.2019.8962879.
  • L. Pelletier, McRaven, C., Ware, J., Gardner, A., Packard, G., Ochs, M, Farr, N., Collins, J., and Purcell, M., "Delivery of Accurate Timing to Subsea Instruments via Optical Modem Technology with the Added Benefit of Optical Range Measurement," OCEANS 2019 MTS/IEEE SEATTLE, Seattle, WA, USA, 2019, pp. 1-5, doi: 10.23919/OCEANS40490.2019.8962653.