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.

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) |

Project Participants
Can seismic data mules protect us from the next big one?
By Evan Lubofsky
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.