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Graduate student researcher Seth Zippel tests SWIFT (Surface Wave Instrument Float with Tracking) performance in the Arctic in advance of planned missions to be conducted in summer 2014 during the Marginal Ice Zone experiments.

In 2013 the Washington State legislature appropriated $1.8M to establish the Washington Ocean Acidification Center, co-directed by Jan Newton. The mission is to improve forecasts of where and when corrosive waters may occur and to create mitigation strategies.

The versatile AUV platform Seaglider continues to revolutionize the way that oceanographic data is collected with its ever expanding capabilities. Kongsberg Underwater Technology, Inc. has obtained the commercialization rights to continue the development of Seaglider technology.

APL-UW engineers prepare to deploy instruments and miles of high capacity fiber-optic and power cable as part of an interactive ocean observatory off the Oregon coast in 2013. Watch the video.

At the base of the Greendland Ice Sheet, liquid water acts as a lubricant to ease and speed the flow of ice over the bed. Laboratory physicists have developed a thermal probe that melts its way vertically through the kilometer-thick ice to measure basal water pressure.