The Triton Initiative is built on meaningful partnerships and collaborations with universities, developers, and regulators.
Interested in working with us? Send inquiries to tritonmre@pnnl.gov.
PNNL offers technical expertise in a variety of research areas, including:
Marine technology and engineering
Biotechnology
Biogeochemistry
Toxicology
Field operations
The Triton Initiative is located at the Marine and Coastal Research Laboratory (MCRL) at PNNL-Sequim. MCRL sits at the mouth of Sequim Bay on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula and links a small, relatively undisturbed embayment to the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the body of water separating the United States and Canada, to the Pacific Ocean.
PNNL maintains a variety of vessels, facilities, and equipment to enable research, provide a platform for development of instrumentation and data collection, and support software design and data analysis and the evaluation of potential impacts to marine systems.
“I wrote up a little description of the measurements we needed, and PNNL’s engineer, Nolann Williams, ran with it. He performed all the tests in PNNL's anechoic chamber, and also in open water so we could compare the results. He even built a nice mounting rig for the transducers that he gave to us in case we need to perform similar testing in the future. It would have been very difficult for us to do all this testing at our facility, so it was great that Nolann was able to do it for us.”
A. Packer, BioSonics, Inc.