Interactive Oceans

Today we finished installing a complex instrument assembly and winched profiler on the two-legged shallow water profiler! This profiler will allow us to sample the upper water column with a winched instrument pod, from 200m to 20m below the sea surface! This was a vey engineering and ROV intensive operation, and it went off incredibly well! Read the blog post at http://www.interactiveoceans.washington.edu/story/Success_at_Oregon_Offshore

Success at Oregon Offshore Today marked a historic moment for the OOI-RSN, with the successful installation of 1) a large, complex instrument assembly and 2) an instrumented shallow winched profiler on the 13 ft across mooring platform at 197 m water depth at the Oregon Offshore Site. This system is a remarkable engineering f…

Final talk of UWAA/SAL spring 2014 lecture series will feature what promises to be a lively dialogue between John Delaney and UW professor of oceanography and astrobiology, John Baross. Together they will explore the role of submarine volcanoes in the origin and evolution of life on Earth and the potential for finding life in similar settings on other planets and moons. Baross led the National Academy of Sciences committee that provided guidance for scientific study of the limits of organic life in planetary systems. Delaney served on NASA committees that defined the nature of missions to the icy moons of Jupiter.

Talk begins at 7 pm, Tuesday, May 20, Kane Hall 120, UW campus. Students free with valid ID. Individual tickets: $20 at the door.

Coming up on Tuesday, 6 May: Next in John Delaney's lecture series on the Global Ocean. This talk will focus on hydrothermal systems associated with underwater volcanoes. Join us at 7 pm in Kane Hall 120 on the UW Seattle Campus. Students may attend free of charge, with valid student ID. Individual tickets for this event, which is co-sponsored by Seattle Arts and Lectures and the UW Alumni Association, may be purchased at the door for $20. For details and information on series tickets, see below.

Seattle Arts & Lectures \ Season \ SAL U: A U for You John Delaney, of the UW School of Oceanography, is leading the team funded by the National Science Foundation to build an innovative underwater network in the northeast Pacific Ocean.