The 2014 ONR USPP Review will be held 5–7 August at the Center for Urban Horticulture, University of Washington, Seattle. Click for details.

APL-UW scientists and engineers, collaborating with UW colleagues in the College of Engineering, secured four micro vehicles from Innova Dash to be used as research platforms on the UW campus for the next year. Connected to the UW's wireless network and equipped with tablet computers, they will be used to study applications in many engineering domains.

The MIZ field program began in March. Data from arrays of autonomous platforms deployed on the sea ice of the Beaufort Sea are updated daily. The instruments are measuring the evolution of the inital spring breakup through the summertime sea ice retreat.

Observations of West Antarctic topography and glacier flow speeds are combined with a computer model simulating ocean-driven glacier melting to show that the ice sheet's collapse is already underway. Watch the video and read the research paper published in the 16 May issue of Science.

In early 2014 the 'Wave Chasers' team of oceanographers returned to the Samoan Passage for a third time in as many years. They collected the most detailed measurements ever of the turbulence and mixing through the choke point separating South and North Pacific abyssal waters.

Acoustic Doppler current profilers are installed on two Washington State Department of Transportation ferries to measure current velocities in a continuous transect along their routes. A long time series of several-times-daily, cross-section measurements will provide an unprecedented data set to study the water mass movement and transport between Puget Sound and the Pacific Ocean.

Eric D'Asaro, Senior Principal Oceanographer and Professor of Oceanography, is among the 84 newly elected fellows of the National Academy of Sciences. He is recognized for his distinguished and continuing achievements in studies of ocean turbulence and mixing.