TY - JOUR T1 - The Ocean Observatories Initiative JF - Oceanography Y1 - 2018 A1 - Smith, Leslie A1 - Barth, John A1 - Kelley, Deborah A1 - Plueddemann, Al A1 - Rodero, Ivan A1 - Ulses, Greg A1 - Vardaro, Michael A1 - Weller, Robert AB - The Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) is an integrated suite of instrumented platforms and discrete instruments that measure physical, chemical, geological, and biological properties from the seafloor to the sea surface. The OOI provides data to address large-scale scientific challenges such as coastal ocean dynamics, climate and ecosystem health, the global carbon cycle, and linkages among seafloor volcanism and life. The OOI Cyberinfrastructure currently serves over 250 terabytes of data from the arrays. These data are freely available to users worldwide, changing the way scientists and the broader community interact with the ocean, and permitting ocean research and inquiry at scales of centimeters to kilometers and seconds to decades. VL - 31 U1 - All arrays U2 - ER -