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Oceans of Change Oceans are the flywheel of our climate and our climate is changing. Fleets of robotic vehicles are enabling the observation and prediction of ocean processes by providing an adaptive observation system for the ocean in- terior. In 2003 during the AOSN II field experiment, the first large-scale deployment of vehicles was used to predict the evolution of episodic wind-driven upwelling in the environs of Monterey Bay. Twelve different institutions contributed to the effort, which was lead by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. The observing system included a communi- cation framework that allowed observations to be transmitted to two re- al-time oceanographic models. The resulting system provided the oceanic equivalent of atmospheric weather prediction, with all the advantages that prediction entails. The visual models generated nowcasts and forecasts of ocean conditions, which in turn were adaptive sampling with the mobile Oceans of Change, 2007 Ellen Sandor & (art)n: Chris Kemp and Janine Fron Donna Cox, Robert Patterson, Stu- art Levy, Matt Hall, Alex Betts and Lorne Leonard, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois, Urbana-Cham- paign Yi Chao, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology James Bellingham, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Virtual Photograph/PHSCologram: Duratrans, Kodalth, Plexiglas 24 x 40 inches