Santa Monica Bay Observatory
Oceanographic Mooring
Santa Monica Bay, CA
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Mooring Name: SMBO Mooring (aka. MUCLA)
Position: 33 56 N, 118 43 W
Deployed: May 12th, 2007 by UCLA
Original Deployment: June 2001 by MBARI
The SMBO Mooring is a "real-time" Oceanographic Data Acquisition Mooring located in the North-West portion of Santa Monica Bay, CA. The mooring was built for UCLA by The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) in Moss Landing, CA. The mooring is owned and operated by the UCLA Institute of the Environment (IOE), a multi-disciplinary institution at the University of California, Los Angeles.
The SMBO Mooring is a highly sophisticated system that is capable of sampling, logging, and transmitting data via packet radio on a semi-continuous basis. Measurements are taken approximately every ten minutes and stored internally until an hourly download is achieved via packet radio. The data are then automatically processed and archived on a Windows XP PC located on the Pepperdine University campus in Malibu, CA. This was made possible through coordination with Dr. Karen Martin, and support by Douglas Gilbert of the Pepperdine Natural Sciences Division. The data are then transferred via FTP to this webserver for the world to view.
For additional information please contact: Levanto Schachter or Keith D Stolzenbach