Moss Landing Marine Laboratories and Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Connect to California Research & Education Network (CalREN)

Cypress, CA - August 28, 2006 - The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) announced today that both the California State University's Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (MLML) and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) are connected to the Digital California tier of the California Research & Education Network (CalREN-DC). The two research institutions are linked to the CalREN-DC node in Soledad, CA at Gigabit speeds via AT&T's GigaMAN (Ethernet private line) service. CENIC contracts with AT&T to provide similar connectivity to many research and education entities throughout California.

As two of the premiere marine research institutions in the US and the world, MLML and MBARI will use their connection to CalREN to further their research programs and collaborations with other researchers worldwide and to enable complex ventures such as MBARI's Monterey Accelerated Research System (MARS), which will allow scientists to perform long-term and real-time experiments 900 meters below the surface of Monterey Bay and will serve as an engineering, science, and education test bed for even larger regional ocean observatories. The Institute's connection to CalREN will play a crucial role in making the data gathered by the MARS system available for MBARI researchers and others in the research community with a collaborative interest.

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