Around the planet’s oceans, nearly 4,000 floats — many of them built at the University of Washington — are plunging up and down, collecting and transmitting observations of the world’s oceans. This fall, one of these diving robots made the program’s 2 millionth measurement, reporting temperature and salinity recorded to a depth of about a mile. The Argo Program is a 20-year-old project to gather 3D data on the oceans.
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Kyle Yasuda, 2018 president-elect of the American Academy of Pediatrics and co-founder of BestStart Washington, and Pooja Tandon, pediatrician and researcher at Seattle Children’s Hospital, assistant professor at the University of Washington, and active member of UW EarthLab’s Nature for Health initiative, share their thoughts in The Seattle Times on how we can help our kids increase outdoor time, and the associated health benefits.
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