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Teledyne Webb Research Wins Coastal

Glider Contract for OOI

Teledyne Webb Research (TWR) was selected to pro- vide Coastal Gliders for the Ocean Observatories

Initiative (OOI). The Slocum G2 gliders will support the Pioneer and the Endurance Arrays of the Coastal and Global Scale Nodes (CGSN) of the OOI. The con- tract, valued at up to$5.6m, includes a prototype vehicle to be delivered this year that will incorporate the specif- ic sensor requirements of the CGSN. Production units will be delivered beginning in April 2012. The initial contract award is $260,000. Teledyne Webb Research was chosen by The Consortium for Ocean Leadership and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) to provide the gliders for this project that is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

The Slocum G2 gliders are designed for long deploy- ment endurance with the ability to maneuver and oper- ate where the total water depth is less than 30 meters and up to 1000 meters along deeper coastlines. The modular vehicle construction facilitates both swappable payload bays for a multitude of integrated sensor suites and optimized buoyancy control for various depth regimes. The Ocean Observatories Initiative is a multi- scale observatory that will utilize a network of sensor sys- tems to collect physical, chemical, geological and bio- logical data from the ocean and the seafloor on coastal, regional and global scales. A unique cyberinfrastructure will make the data available to anyone with an internet connection. http://www.oceanleadership.org/ programs-and-partnerships/ocean-observing/