{"id":210,"date":"2017-08-09T13:13:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T17:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/obslab\/?page_id=210"},"modified":"2021-06-24T09:32:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T13:32:09","slug":"innovation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/obslab\/innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h1>Innovation: Non-OBSIP Seismic Instrumentation Projects<\/h1>\nIn 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.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/obslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2017\/08\/innovation-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1914\" height=\"296\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/obslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2017\/08\/Pilot-300x217.png\" alt=\"Pilot project\" height=\"217\" width=\"300\" title=\"Pilot\" \/>\n\t<h3>1998: Ocean Seismic Network Pilot Experiment<b> <\/b><\/h3>\n<p>An experiment to from late January to early June of 1998 to designed to\u00a0learn how to make sustained, high-quality, broadband seismic measurements in the deep oceans.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/obslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2017\/08\/Ocean-Seismic-Network-Pilot-Experiment.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MORE\u00a0<\/a>(pdf)<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/obslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2017\/08\/AcousticMoored-300x282.jpg\" alt=\"AcousticMoored\" height=\"282\" width=\"300\" title=\"AcousticMoored\" \/>\n\t<h3>2004-2005: Acoustically-Linked Moored Buoy Observatory<\/h3>\n<p>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.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/obslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2017\/08\/Acoustically-Linked-Moored-Buoy-Observatory.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MORE<\/a>\u00a0(pdf)<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/obslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2017\/08\/Lighthouse-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"Lighthouse\" height=\"215\" width=\"300\" title=\"Lighthouse\" \/>\n\t<h3>2006-2007: Lighthouse<sup>\u00ae <\/sup>Realtime Seafloor Seismic Station<\/h3>\n<p>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. <a href=\"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/obslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2017\/08\/Lighthouse\u00ae-Realtime-Seafloor-Seismic-Station.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MORE<\/a> (pdf)<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/obslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2017\/08\/Keck1-300x165.png\" alt=\"Keck1\" height=\"165\" width=\"300\" title=\"Keck1\" \/>\n\t<h3>2008-2009: Keck Combined Strong-Motion\/Broadband OBS<\/h3>\n<p>W.M. Keck Foundation-funded<i>\u00a0<\/i>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.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/obslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2017\/08\/Keck-Combined-Strong-Motion.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MORE<\/a>\u00a0(pdf)<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/obslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2017\/08\/obs-and-remus-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"obs and remus\" height=\"240\" width=\"300\" title=\"obs and remus\" \/>\n\t<h3>2015-: Seismic Data Retrieval Using an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle and High-Speed Optical Telemetry<b> <\/b><\/h3>\n<p>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.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/obslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2017\/08\/Seismic-Data-Retrieval-Using-an-Autonomous-Underwater-Vehicle.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MORE<\/a> (pdf)\u00a0 <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/obslab\/innovation\/autonomous-seismic-data-retrieval\/\">TEAM MEMBERS<\/a><br \/>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whoi.edu\/news-insights\/content\/seismic-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ARTICLE: Can seismic data mules protect us from the next big one?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/obslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2017\/08\/borehole-300x183.png\" alt=\"border=&quot;1&quot;\" height=\"183\" width=\"300\" title=\"borehole\" \/>\n\t<h3>2016-: Keck Realtime Seismic\/Geodetic Borehole Station<\/h3>\n<p>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.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/obslab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/98\/2017\/08\/Keck-Realtime-SeismicGeodetic-Borehole-Station.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MORE<\/a>\u00a0(pdf)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 1998: Ocean Seismic Network Pilot Experiment An experiment to from late&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/obslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/obslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/obslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/obslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/obslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/obslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214,"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/obslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/210\/revisions\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.whoi.edu\/obslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}