It’s summertime, and that means scientists across the University of Washington College of the Environment are in the field collecting data. Researchers in the School of Oceanography are no different and are working off the Oregon coast on their annual expedition to maintain the long-running cabled ocean observatory. Part of the broader National Science Foundation’s Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), UW oversees the Regional Cabled Observatory that spans several sites in Pacific Northwest waters, ranging from shallow coastal locales to deeper waters in the open ocean more than 300 miles offshore.
Read more »Apprentices build floats and careers in Argo Lab
In the basement of one of UW’s oceanography buildings, visitors see all sorts of strange, ocean-going equipment. What are those long, yellow tube-things in there — and what on earth do they do? Turns out they’re an instrument known as an Argo float, and they are used globally to monitor ocean properties such as temperature, salinity, pressure and more recently, biogeochemical elements such as oxygen and nitrate.
Read more »UW hosts student robotics challenge Friday to mark 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 moon landing
This Saturday will mark a half century since the Apollo 11 mission landed on the moon and two U.S. astronauts, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, walked its surface. At the University of Washington, the NASA-funded Northwest Earth and Space Sciences Pipeline, or NEESP, is marking the occasion with a robotics challenge for middle and high school students from across the state.
Read more at UW News »Fueled by floods: Cambodian people's food security threatened by hydropower demands
Along the Mekong River in Cambodia, UW researchers are racing to determine how hydropower demand will impact the supplies of rice and fish — and the communities who rely on them.
Read more »UW-based group launches national challenge to recreate first moon landing — with drones and Lego robots
UW Northwest Earth and Space Sciences Pipeline marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing with a cool challenge for elementary, middle and high school students.
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