3 Tony Fountain Sameer Tilak Peter Shin Sally Holbrook Russell J. Schmitt Andrew Brooks Libe Washburn David Salazar 2009 Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP) 07/12/2009 Digital Moorea is a collaborative vision of a coral reef ecosystem instrumented with real-time sensors connected to high-performance backend resources and sophisticated client applications. It will be a living laboratory for long-term studies of marine ecology and a testbed for evolving technologies for environmental and biological sensing, communications, and analysis. A diverse team of ecologists, computer scientists, and engineers from the Marine Science Institute at the University of California Santa Barbara (MSI, www.msi.ucsb.edu/) and the California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology (CalIT2, www.calit2.net/) are collaborating to bring this vision to reality at the Moorea Coral Reef site (MCR LTER, www.mcr.lternet.edu) of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program.