Digital Moorea is a collaborative vision of a coral reef ecosystem instrumented with real-time sensors connected to high-performance backend resources and sophisticated client applications. It will be a living laboratory for long-term studies of marine ecology and a testbed for evolving technologies for environmental and biological sensing, communications, and analysis.

Open Source DataTurbine Initiative team has been collaborating with the researchers from the Marine Science Institute at the University of California Santa Barbara (MSI, www.msi.ucsb.edu/) to bring the vision of Digital Moorea to reality at the Moorea Coral Reef site (MCR LTER, www.mcr.lternet.edu) of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program.

This collaboration lead to a research paper titled “Digital Moorea Cyberinfrastructure for Coral Reef Monitoring.” The paper has been accepted to appear in the Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP-2009), to be held in Melbourne during December 7-10, 2009. OSDT team members will attend ISSNIP 2009 and present this paper. A copy of the paper can be downloaded at: http://dataturbine.org/biblio