The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate
University (OIST), working in agreement with the Okinawa General Bureau’s Ocean
Expo Park, has installed a marine observatory system in waters off the coast of
the Ocean Expo Park in Motobu Peninsula, where the Churaumi Aquarium is
located. The installation, called the Okinawa Coastal Ocean Observatory System
developed in partnership with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the
U.S.A., enables real-time monitoring of temperature, salinity, and other
chemical, biological and physical data. Through the establishment of this
world-class oceanographic monitoring system in Okinawa, OIST will advance its
marine scientific research capability towards becoming an international center
of marine science.