Mooring Operations is responsible for the deployment and recovery of local moorings in Monterey Bay. The group also performs maintenance and diving operations for the moorings.

Assembly and instrument integration includes cabling and wiring, calibrations, set-up, testing, trouble-shooting, and repairing. Moorings currently deployed are recovered annually and replaced with a refurbished mooring (a mooring turnaround).

The Ocean Observatory currently supports the M1 mooring and the shallow and deep Midwater Respirometer System moorings.

MBARI’s moorings in Monterey Bay have been collecting oceanographic data in Monterey Bay more or less continuously since the late 1980s. They require periodic maintenance to repair and replace equipment, as well as to add newly developed sensors for oceanographic data. In addition to measuring basic oceaographic parameters, such as wind speed, sea and temperature, and salinity, instruments have been added to measure currents, water clarity, and solar radiation.
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