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April 20, 2007
Marine Geophysics Group To Create Sea Floor Observatory
Topics: General ScienceA team from U of T's marine geophysics group is participating in a joint project to create the world's largest cable-linked sea floor observatory on the Pacific Ocean floor.
NEPTUNE will be the world's largest cable-linked seafloor observatory. Stage I of the NEPTUNE project will lay an 800 km ring of powered fibre optic cable on the seabed over the northern part of the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate, a 200,000 sq km region in the northeast Pacific off the coasts of British Columbia, Washington and Oregon. (Credit: Image Courtesy Of University Of Victoria, Neptune Project)
Known as the North-East Pacific Time-Series Undersea Networked Experiments, or NEPTUNE, the project will allow scientists to monitor biological, oceanographic and geological processes over a period that could stretch to more than two decades, depending on the long-term impacts on equipment from the immense water pressure and the corrosive effects of salt water. (Continue reading ...)
Posted by Richard at April 20, 2007 8:13 PM
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