EarthScope-Oceans Consortium

EarthScope-Oceans is an organization founded by a multidisciplinary group of geoscientists who are coordinating efforts to create a global network of sensors that monitor the Earth from within the oceanic environment. As other organizations are doing for the land-based seismological communities today, EarthScope-Oceans shepherds national projects into the international arena where globally relevant, applicable, and mutually agreed-upon decisions can be made on instrument development, science objectives, data management, and outreach. As MERMAID technology develops, EarthScope-Oceans is expected to become more multidisciplinary and include seismologists, biologists, geochemists, meteorologists, oceanographers and others. Collaboration with ocean-observing programs will enable complementary observation of ocean temperature, salinity, and biogeochemical tracers, and cost-effective instrument deployment and recovery by ships of opportunity.