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UW undergraduates embark on three-week research cruise off Japan

By Hannah Hickey

February 25, 2013

Eleven UW undergraduates leave today on an unusually ambitious research and teaching expedition to study the Kuroshio Current off Japan.

Scientists coaxing world’s oceans to reveal subsurface secrets

By Sandra Hines

November 15, 2007

The only global-ocean climate-monitoring system — comprised of satellites and specialized floats — passed a milestone earlier this month when a UW and Scripps Institution of Oceanography expedition was in a position to deploy Argo float No.

‘Argo’ on quest for better climate forecasts

By Sandra Hines

September 19, 2000

A University of Washington oceanographer is in Washington, D.C., today for a press conference announcing the first phase of a program that could take climate forecasting to the next level of accuracy by routinely making measurements up to a mile beneath the sea surface at points across all the world’s oceans.