UW Research

October 6, 2009

UW receives largest-ever federal award to construct ocean observatory off the Pacific Northwest

Today’s announcement of approximately $385 million over 5½ years in funding for the National Science Foundation’s Ocean Observatories Initiative is the culmination of a two-decade quest to transform the manner in which science in ocean basins can be conducted. See the fact sheet at uwnews:  http://www.washington.edu/news/archive/51819