Marine Observatory

Select a computing node, then adjust simulated demand.

For Miami marine researchers, coastal-resilience teams and planners screening proposed ocean infrastructure. Environmental accountability precedes deployment. Not an operating data center, not a validated restoration technology, not a deployment certification.
COMPUTE · CLEAN · RESTORE · CONNECT is an aspiration, not proof.
Jump to NOAA details. Virginia Key, Miami · 8723214 · regional shore stationWater temperature — fetching…Water level — fetching…● FETCHING NOAA…UNKNOWN

Network

6 nodes + ATOL + seabed junction
CONCEPTUALNET +20 kW · SIMULATEDSite suitability: undetermined UNKNOWN▶ Concept film · 47 s
Y = 0 · arbitrary water-surface planeY = −12 mUMBILICAL → JUNCTION_01 (Y −12 m)RIDGE_01CONNECTOR_01CANYON_01CONNECTOR_02RIDGE_02CANYON_02ATOL_01 · surface hubCONCEPTUALSECTION · X → · deeper = lower · glyph sizes illustrative · depth cue: +Z drawn higher
NODAL / RIDGE · RIDGE_01 · Ridge West CONCEPTUAL
Illustrative allocation: 21 kW SIMULATED = 35% of network demand (60 kW)
Low-profile protected computing and exterior habitat geometry. Not a node sensor reading or hardware capacity; NOAA context is shared and regional.

Select a computing node

Concept visualization; unvalidated. Positions are hypothetical scene units, not deployment sites. ATOL and the seabed junction are supporting infrastructure, not extra compute nodes.

Schema and view notes

Illustrative spatial layout only; locations, depth and dimensions are not surveyed or certified. Coordinates: X east/west, Y up, Z north/south. Hypothetical scene coordinates, not geographic coordinates. Schema v1.0.0. Glyph sizes are illustrative; Section view draws +Z slightly higher as a depth cue; cable colour is amber during a simulated shortfall and node core glow follows simulated allocation. It is not thermal modelling or telemetry.

Network scenario

SIMULATED
kWh

Network-wide illustrative inputs for a hypothetical network. Nothing here is measured at any installation; node selection only changes which share is displayed.

Illustrative power balance & next action

+20kW net powerSURPLUSSIMULATED
Recommended operational action · NODAL-ACT-COMMISSION-LOCAL-STUDIES

Energy balance holds in the simulation. Next: commission local thermal, current, bathymetry, habitat/benthic and permitting studies before any site qualification.

Site ecological suitability: undetermined UNKNOWN

Do not deploy yet. 5 local evidence categories are unknown, whatever the power balance. This prototype cannot establish ecological suitability or engineering safety.

Power calculation uses simulated inputs; NOAA provides separate regional context.

AI explanation · Gemma 4

gemma-4-26b-a4b-it · via Gemini API (server-side)

AI EXPLANATION Derived from the assessment above; it is not an observation. It does not calculate and cannot certify ecological safety.

Proposed architecture CONCEPTUAL

Concept film · 47 s · AI-generated (Seedance clips, edited in Remotion) · sound: generated ambience

A speculative vision of the NODAL families — RIDGE, CANYON, CONNECTOR and the ATOL surface hub — not engineered hardware. Coral and marine life growing on the structures are illustration, not a predicted or measured outcome. The film places the network on a reef; reef habitat is exactly the evidence NODAL treats as unknown until surveyed. The orbital view of Florida and the Atlantic shows imagined scale only: no sites have been selected or surveyed. Nothing in this film changes the assessment: site ecological suitability is undetermined.

What the film shows (text description)
  1. 0:00–0:09 A RIDGE unit activates in a studio; illustrative coral grows over its shell.
  2. 0:09–0:18 The camera passes the RIDGE compute core, then the ATOL surface hub floats at sea under its solar canopy.
  3. 0:17–0:27 Descent below ATOL along the umbilical into the connected underwater units.
  4. 0:26–0:36 Rise from the reef to an orbital view of Florida and the Atlantic with an imagined network of light.
  5. 0:35–0:47 The network converges; NODAL wordmark and the author's mark; silence.

Evidence ledger

Regional observations · NOAA Tides & Currents

● FETCHING NOAA…

Virginia Key, FL · station 8723214. Regional shore-station context shared by every node. It is not a NODAL sensor, not a reading at the selected node, and not a thermal or current model of any site.

Source: NOAA CO-OPS station 8723214 via the CO-OPS Data API. Metric units; times shown in UTC and Miami local. Tide height is not current speed.

Assessment 3cfcc68a
netPowerKw = simulatedGenerationKw − simulatedDemandKw
Rules triggered: NODAL-PWR-001 · NODAL-PWR-030 · NODAL-NODE-001 · NODAL-ENV-001 · NODAL-ENV-000 · verdict NODAL-VERDICT-001
Missing local evidence (5 categories)
  • UNKNOWNLocal thermal regime. No site-specific temperature profile or thermal model; regional station readings are not the NODAL site.
  • UNKNOWNLocal current speed and direction. No current measurement is available: the NOAA currents request for station 8723214 returned no data. Water level (tide height) is not current velocity.
  • UNKNOWNBathymetry and seabed substrate. Scene coordinates are hypothetical; no survey exists for any real location.
  • UNKNOWNHabitat and benthic community survey. No benthic or biological survey data is held.
  • UNKNOWNPermitting and regulatory review. No permitting or stakeholder review has been performed.
Rules evaluated (9) · stable IDs
  • NODAL-PWR-001Net power balance computed — triggered. netPowerKw = 80 − 60 = 20 kW
  • NODAL-PWR-010Energy shortfall — not triggered. Simulated generation covers simulated demand.
  • NODAL-PWR-020Zero energy margin — not triggered. Not at exactly zero margin.
  • NODAL-PWR-030Energy surplus — triggered. Simulated generation exceeds demand by 20 kW. This is NOT an environmental safety finding.
  • NODAL-PWR-040Battery runtime during shortfall — not triggered. Not applicable: no shortfall.
  • NODAL-NODE-001Selected-node demand allocation — triggered. RIDGE_01 (RIDGE): 35 % × 60 kW = 21 kW allocated (SIMULATED). Illustrative workload share 35 % of total simulated demand.
  • NODAL-OBS-001Regional NOAA observation context — unknown. No NOAA observation could be retrieved; regional context UNKNOWN.
  • NODAL-ENV-001Local marine evidence missing — triggered. 5 of 5 required local evidence categories are UNKNOWN: local thermal regime, local current speed and direction, bathymetry and seabed substrate, habitat and benthic community survey, permitting and regulatory review.
  • NODAL-ENV-000Energy result does not imply environmental safety — triggered. Power balance and ecological suitability are independent questions. No ecological score or threshold is applied.
Assumptions (5)
  • All power and battery values are SIMULATED inputs, not measurements of any installation.
  • Net power = simulated generation − simulated demand; conversion, transmission and cooling losses are ignored.
  • Battery runtime = usable battery kWh ÷ shortfall kW, computed only when there is a shortfall; no depth-of-discharge or ageing model.
  • Per-node demand share uses the illustrative simulatedWorkloadPct values in shared/network.json; this is not a hardware capacity claim.
  • NOAA observations are regional context from a shore station; they are not used as inputs to the power calculation and no ecological threshold is applied.