![Rockfish and snails on the seafloor off the Oregon coast.](https://environment.uw.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Neptune_nursery-528x297.jpg)
Students at the College of the Environment got a taste of what doing oceanographic research is all about this summer, spending numerous days at sea aboard the UW’s giant research vessel, the Thomas G. Thompson. The project: installing an underwater, cabled ocean observatory that will give scientists a continuous presence in the Pacific waters off of Oregon and Washington.
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