More than a decade after streamer lines were introduced to Alaska’s longline fisheries, seabird bycatch is down more than 77%...but there’s still room for improvement.
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Most of us rely on the weather forecast to choose our outfit or make outdoor plans for the weekend. But conditions underwater can also be useful to know in advance, especially if you’re an oyster farmer, a fisher or even a recreational diver. A new University of Washington computer model can predict conditions in Puget Sound and off the coast of Washington three days into the future.
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A team of ocean robots deployed in January 2018 have, over the past year, been the first self-guided ocean robots to successfully travel under an ice sheet and return to report long-term observations. Beyond mere survival, the robotic mission — a partnership between the University of Washington’s College of the Environment, the UW Applied Physics Laboratory, the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, the Korean Polar Research Institute and Paul G.
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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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Mention the word “parasite”, and Chelsea Wood’s face lights up. She may be one of the few people on Earth who think so fondly of them. But it makes sense — Wood is a marine ecologist and her entire lab focuses on parasites and the role they play in nature. Turns out, it’s an important one — and one that may be changing over time.
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