Cyber fiber: John Orcutt and Frank Vernon wire the ocean
April 3rd, 2009 by Ari Daniel Shapiro | Filed in Ocean Gazing Podcast
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Cyberinfrastructure allows online access of underwater observations to anyone in the world in real time.
This time on Ocean Gazing, John Orcutt and Frank Vernon – from Scripps Institution of Oceanography and UC San Diego – explain how they get automated underwater observations back ashore to actual human beings. Vernon says, “We hope that everybody takes advantage of it… I don’t think there’s any limit or bound.”
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 John Orcutt, project director for the cyberinfrastructure component of the Ocean Observatories Initiative. |
 Cyberinfrastructure will allow ''full two-way communication capabilities to facilitate direct interaction with the oceans.'' Artwork and layout: Jennifer Matthews. |
Web Resources
Cecil & Ida Green Institute of Geophysics & Planetary Physics (IGPP)
An interactive guide to cyberinfrastructure
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Tags: cyberinfrastructure, frank vernon, internet, john orcutt, scripps
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[...] John Orcutt and Frank Vernon are wiring the ocean to the Internet. And their goal is to let anyone anywhere tap into the vast data stores. Tune into episode 5 of the Ocean Gazing podcast. [...]
As a middle school teacher I’m excited about the opportunities this presents. I’m not exactly sure how I would go about using this information effectively in the classroom ~ though I definitely have some ideas.
One concern I have is that I may not be able to correctly understand what the data means.