Oceanographers are using a growing number of seafloor seismometers, devices that record seafloor vibrations, to carry out inexpensive and non-invasive studies of endangered whales.
Using earthquake sensors to track endangered whales
May 13, 2013
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Tsunami debris could be found in Washington’s annual beach cleanup
April 12, 2013
The annual beach cleanup may turn up new items from the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan more than two years ago and sent objects to the Washington coast.
Award recognizes UW oceanographer’s talent for engaging public
December 12, 2012
The American Geophysical Union has presented its top prize for engaging the public in science to UW’s John Delaney.
Armbrust shares $35 million to investigate tiniest ocean regulators
December 10, 2012
Oceanographer Ginger Armbrust has received a multi-million dollar award to spend as she wishes on her research into ocean microbes and their role in regulating ocean environments and our atmosphere.
UW scientists team with Coast Guard to explore ice-free Arctic Ocean — with slideshow
October 2, 2012
UW scientists are teaming with the U.S. Coast Guard to study the new frontier in the Arctic Ocean opened up with the melting ice.
New York Times blog features UW scientist at sea
September 24, 2012
The New York Times’ Scientist at Work blog is featuring posts from Jim Thomson, an oceanographer at the University of Washington’s Applied Physics Laboratory, as he seeks big waves in the North Pacific.
Underwater ‘electrical outlets’ put in place for cabled ocean observatory project
July 26, 2012
The first U.S. cabled ocean observatory reached a milestone on July 14 with the installation of a node 9,500 feet deep off the coast of Oregon. Like a giant electrical outlet on the seafloor that also provides Internet connectivity, the node was spliced into a network of cable segments totalling some 560 miles that were…
The cable has landed: Ocean science history in the making — with slideshow
July 22, 2011
Submarine cables for the nations first regional cabled ocean observatory, a project led by the University of Washington, made landfall last week on the Oregon coast.
Microbe understudies await their turn in the limelight
January 11, 2010
On the marine microbial stage, there appears to be a vast group of understudies only too ready to step in when
Scientists witness for first time magma streaming from volcano in deep ocean
December 17, 2009
For the first time scientists have seen molten lava flowing from a deep-ocean seafloor volcano.
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