December 3, 2014
Join a Google+ hangout on Southern Ocean climate
Join some of the world’s leading experts on the Southern Ocean for a webinar on Thursday, Dec. 4, from 11 a.m. to noon Seattle time. Viewers can log on here with a Google account, or watch on YouTube.
“UW-built sensors to probe Antarctica’s Southern Ocean”
UW Today | Sept. 11, 2014
The Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling project, based at Princeton University, is a six-year collaborative effort to improve understanding of the Southern Ocean’s role in climate. The effort is funded by a $21 million grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation.
Scientists deploy a gliding sensor in the Southern Ocean in 2008.Annie Wong / UW
Stephen Riser, a UW professor of oceanography, is a member of the executive committee. His group at the UW is building robotic floats to be used in the project. He will talk about the sensor technology and the need for more observations of the Southern Ocean. The water circling Antarctica is thought to play a crucial role in the global climate, but few measurements exist due to cold, rough conditions.
Besides Riser, the webinar will feature:
- Project leader Jorge Sarmiento of Princeton University.
- Lynne Talley of Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
- Joellen Russell of the University of Arizona.
- Ken Johnson of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.
- Heidi Cullen of Climate Central.
The first of the floats will be deployed from a ship that set sail Dec. 2 for the Southern Ocean.
