Swarms of tiny robots to monitor the oceans

The National Science Foundation's Ocean Observatories Initiative. OOI, as it's called, aims to build a network of ocean sensors to "measure the physical, chemical, geological and biological variables in the ocean and seafloor." OOI will integrate into a larger, multiagency, public-private effort called the Integrated Ocean Observing System, or IOOS. And IOOS itself will plug into the greater Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS), in which 80 governments are participating.


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