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. : i i SPECIAL ISS UE L o n g - T e r m O b s e r v a t i o n s i n A c o u s t i c s -- t h e O c e a n A c o u s t i c O b s e r v a t o r y F e d e r a t i o n John Orcutt, Catherine deGroot-Hedlin, William Hodgkiss, William Kuperman, Walter Munk, Frank Vernon, Peter Worcester Scripps Institution of Oceanography ° La Jolla, California USA Eddie Bernard, Robert Dziak, Chris Fox, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration~Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory ? Seattle, Washington USA Ching-Sang Chiu, Curt Collins, Naval Postgraduate School ° Monterey, California USA James Mercer, Robert Odom, Minkyu Park, Darin Soukup, Robert SpindeI, University of Washington~Applied Physics Laboratory ° Seattle, Washington USA F e d e r a t i o n The Ocean Acoustic Observatory Federation (OAOF) includes several laboratories and universities: the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) and the Marine Physical Laboratory (MPL) at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the Pacific Meteorological and Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) of NOAA, the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), and the Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington (UW/APL). The OAOF integrates the previously inde- pendent activities of its member institutions in the col- lection of long time series from acoustic arrays in the Pacific. The funded activities include the outfitting and operation of retired Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS) stations, research in earthquake and volcano seismicity, the monitoring of marine mammal behavior, the use of acoustic methods for ocean acoustic tomography and thermometry, and the development of a fundamental understanding of the coupling of elastic waves from vol- canoes and earthquakes into the ocean sound channel. During the course of the NOPP-funded grant, we intend to install, operate and maintain high-quality recording systems at SOSUS arrays at Pt. Sur, Barbers Point, and San Nicolas. While the