1. How is the digital buoy data more reliable than if it was stored as analog data? 2. What benefit is there to having the buoy data in a form that can be stored for future access?

3. What benefit is there to having the data being able to be sent over long distances without the data being affected?

4. How does the buoy data help us to advance our understanding of science?

5. What questions can scientists answer through the use of this Buoy system?

6. In what other ways could the data from this system be collected and how would that impact the resulting data?