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Arctic Field Research Season Under Way
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The 2008 North Pole Environmental Observatory and Freshwater Switchyard Survey began in late March and will unfold through the middle of May. Learn more about these multi-year field expeditions and follow the researchers' daily reports from above the Arctic circle. More >>
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Cryosphere Science Featured on National Geographic Channel
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Physicist Bonnie Light's research in the APL-UW Cryosphere Science Laboratory is included in the examination of what an hypothesized frozen Earth of the distant past may have been like. More >>
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Tactical Weather Forecasting Tools Transitioned to the Fleet
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The Environmental Visualization (EVIS) project, a collaboration between APL-UW and the Naval Research Laboratory, has transitioned fully from the laboratory to the Fleet and is being implemented for defense operations worldwide More >>
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Boater Information System (BIS)
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See forecast winds, currents, tides and temperature, and the impact of changing weather and water conditions over time. Plan a trip on Puget Sound by drawing a route with waypoints. More >>
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15 May 2008 @ 2:30 pm
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Transcutaneous Acoustic Palpation (TAP) for Localizing Sources of Pain
Based on our research we anticipate creation of a device using intense focused ultrasound (iFU) under image guidance that can identify most anywhere within the body the specific structure(s) causing pain, thereby permitting more effective targeted treatments.
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Narwhals more at risk to Arctic warming than polar bears
USA Today, 4/25/2008
Chalk one up for coccolithophores: Single-celled algae successfully fight ocean acidification, UW scientists say
UW News and Information, 4/24/2008
Good signs from Greenland's ice sheet
National Public Radio, 4/17/2008
Skeptics on human climate impact seize on cold spell
The New York Times, 3/3/2008
| Virtual Window to Research in Glacier Bay |
Twenty-one UW seniors and their professors, including Eric D'Asaro and Christopher Krembs, sail for a four-day research trip to Glacier Bay, Alaska, aboard the R/V Thompson. Follow the expedition online, where students will be posting blog entries and photographs and answering questions.
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| Puget Sound Partnership |
Principal Oceanographer Jan Newton is one of nine scientists who have been appointed to the partnership's science panel. The panel will contribute to the creation of a long-term plan to identify and prioritize actions to be carried out through 2020 to protect and restore Puget Sound.
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