HiSeasNet engineer, Steve Foley, will present a poster at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting on December 7th, 2011. The poster is titled "Data stream mobility across shipboard satellite networks."

As the R/V Point Sur (MLML) returned from operations in the Gulf of Alaska today, the R/V Wecoma (OSU) has taken up its satellite connection through the Galaxy-18 satellite operated and downlinked by Intelsat. They are operating with a 64kbps link that is ultimately routed through the HiSeasNet earth station facility.

On 20 June 2010, R/V Kilo Moana temporarily expanded its ship-to-shore link from 96kbps to 1100kbps. The expansion lasted one week as the ship worked a good ways off the coast of Hawaii. With the extra bandwidth, they were able to very quickly send high-resolution edited movies from the ship back to shore. They also spent some time testing and using higher bandwidth videoconferencing equipment for outreach purposes.

As the R/V Point Sur works in the Gulf of Alaska for a couple of months, their HiSeasNet coverage is handled through a short-term lease of time on the Galaxy-18 satellite. Their link is terminated at an Intelsat earth station, then sent to San Diego for inclusion in the rest of the HiSeasNet routing system.

WHOI's R/V Knorr is operating in the Indian Ocean during the month of April, 2010. Since the Indian Ocean is not visible from the HiSeasNet Earth station in San Diego, the ship is linked to the Internet through the Intelsat IS-906 satellite and a teleport in Fuchsstadt, Germany. The bandwidth is 64kbps to and from the ship.

Scientists from the COMARGE and ChESS projects of the Census of Marine Life recently completed the “INSPIRE: Chile Margin 2010” cruise aboard the Scripps Institution of Oceanography's RV Melville. Partnering with the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and the Inner Space Center and Office of Marine Programs based at URI's Graduate School of Oceanography, the INSPIRE team used the HighSeasNet network to support a NOAA Signature Cruise Website and live ship-to-shore broadcasts presented in both English and Spanish. A 13-minute overview video introduced each live broadcast.

HiSeasNet has expanded its bandwidth in the Pacific Ocean Region. Using the NSS-9 satellite, HiSeasNet provides 512kbps shore-to-ship service for 4 ships. This is an improvement from the 256kbps offered on the Intelsat-701 satellite.

HiSeasNet on Intelsat IS 707, providing service for 4 ships in the Atlantic and eastern Pacific Oceans, has now increased the shore-to-ship bandwidth from 128 kbps to 512 kbps.

Steve Foley will present the talk "Improved data capacity using bandwidth acceleration in HiSeasNet" at the upcoming 2009 Fall AGU. The talk is on Monday, 14 December in IN13C, Moscone West, in the session "Sensing, Networking and Fusing the Data I."

HiSeasNet engineer Steve Foley will present "Advanced communications for remote ocean platforms in the coming 15 years," at the 2010 Ocean Sciences meeting. The abstract can be viewed here.