The ocean float lab in the UW Ocean Sciences Building is a hive of activity. Dozens of floats are in various stages of construction, both for the ongoing Argo program and the new SOCCOM project to study the Southern Ocean.
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New research on how bottom-trawling impacts the seabed will fill a gap in the science and could be used to inform policy and management strategies for fishing.
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Frances Eshom-Arzadon found that local beaches are riddled with synthetic microfibers that enter into the environment when they are shed in washing machines.
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New research finds that large earthquakes can trigger underwater landslides thousands of miles away, weeks or months after the quake occurs. Researchers analyzing data from ocean-bottom seismometers off the Washington-Oregon coast tied a series of underwater landslides on the Cascadia Subduction Zone to a 2012 magnitude-8.6 earthquake in the Indian Ocean — more than 8,000 miles away. These underwater landslides occurred intermittently for nearly four months after the April earthquake.
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The team, who applied their expertise and first-hand knowledge to develop concrete recommendations for policymakers, aims to protect public health while sustaining West Coast communities.
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