Physical Oceanography/ Ocean Engineering

For over 20 years Woods Hole Group has been providing state-of-the-art services in the field of Physical Oceanography and Ocean Engineering using a variety of tools for a diverse clientele including oil and gas companies, engineering companies, rig providers, port and harbor authorities, and government agencies. As an applied science company, we have built our reputation on a solid scientific framework. Woods Hole Group designs, builds and installs multiple offshore observation systems, including real-time monitoring systems, collects high quality data, analyzes these data, and reports in the framework of numerous deepwater as well as coastal wave and current measurement programs worldwide. We specialize in the following:

Capabilities

• Oceanographic Instrumentation Design & Evaluation
• Data Acquisition, QAQC, Analysis, Interpretation & Reporting
• Design Criteria Studies
• Process-Oriented Modeling
• Hydrographic/Geophysical Surveys

The ocean is 330 million cubic miles of water covering some 71 percent of the planet. This water is never at rest.

Wind moves the waves, and beneath the surface, discrete masses of water move at different speeds and depths. There are turbidity currents, which cause landslides underwater. Blizzard-like benthic storms at the seafloor. Deep-sea tides. Undersea cataracts that carry more water than any river in the world. Powerful eddies spawned by grand current systems.

Moving at 4 knots, such a ring of swirling water can violently shake an oil-drilling platform. It could capsize. The drill pipe could snap.