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Of slime and sea ice: Microorganisms have physicists considering biology University Week, 5/12/2005 Microorganisms appear to make ice malleable affecting how sea ice changes and melts in the Arctic.
Pairs of Seagliders set endurance records uwnews.org, 3/5/2005 Two ocean-diving gliders built at the University of Washington were retrieved late last month near the Hawaiian island of Kauai after setting a world record by traveling a quarter of the way across the Pacific Ocean.
APL-UW number one recipient of DoD dollars University Week, 11/18/2004 Directors of 12 university-based laboratories met at APL-UW to share science and technology developments.
Polar science mission takes arctic temperature Seattle Times, 4/23/2004 Are the driving forces of climate change in the Arctic man-made, natural, or both? APL-UW scientists, funded by NSF, travel to the top of the world each spring to find out.
Climate theories run hot and cold Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 4/16/2004 UW scientists are studying a number of events in the polar regions related to climate change.
Ocean Researchers Enlist High-Tech Help Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 1/31/2004 Hydrophones on underwater moorings record the sound of rainfall on the sea. The data is stored until it surfaces and transmits or is retrieved by a ship. Computer programs then determine the pattern of rainfall and estimate its volume.
NPR - All Things Considered NPR - follow this link, then go to the program for 11/3/2003 Satellite and submarine data show that the ice cap over the North Pole has shrunk in the last 25 years.
Scientists, others trying to make sense of Arctic changes USA Today, 10/31/2003 People who live around the Arctic and scientists who study it are seeing clear signs that most of the top of the Earth is getting warmer.
Polar winds are spinning faster; scientists would like to know why Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 10/29/2003 Above the North Pole is a massive maelstrom of air, a "polar vortex," that scientists have shown is speeding up and may explain some of the dramatic changes now being observed in the Arctic environment.
Signs of radical change in Arctic ecosystem Seattle Times, 10/29/2003 Several disparate observed phenomena are signs of a radical change in the Arctic ecosystem.
Researchers fear decline in sea ice is changing climate Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 10/24/2003 NASA scientists released new evidence that the Arctic region is warming up and its sea ice cover is diminishing, with implications for further climate change worldwide.
The ice man UW News and Information, 8/21/2003 Principal Field Engineer Fred Karig sets up and supplies research camps in the coldest places.
Internal waves appear to have muscle to pump up mid-lats UW News and Information, 6/24/2003 Using decades of mooring data, Oceanographer Matthew Alford has calculated how much energy internal waves carry through the global ocean as they propagate thousands of miles from where they originate.
Scientists go to extremes to study warming, currents Seattle Times, 5/13/2003 (Reprinted from the Dallas Morning News, 5/5) Researchers have journeyed to the center of the arctic ice pack, taking water samples and planting scientific buoys. If all goes well, the buoys will drift with the ice for the next year, serving as remote scientific sentinels.
Sea spray key to hurricane intensity Sydney Morning Herald, 2/5/2003 Using a wave tank at the University of New South Wales, AIRS Department scientists studied the sea spray generated by a simulated hurricane. The team will test their laboratory results against field data by flying with a NASA crew into storms during the 2003 hurricane season.
Seas' magnetic fields ABC Online News, 1/13/2003 NewScientist.com, 1/14/2003 Scientists at APL-UW and GeoForschungsZentrum, Germany, have shown for the first time that ocean-generated magnetic fields can be identified in measurements of Earth's overall magnetic field.
Defense budget aids local projects The Seattle Times, 10/18/2002 Therapeutic ultrasound technology may be on the battlefield two to three years faster thanks to $7 million in defense spending targeted to the program.
Dive Power. Researchers create underwater 'glider' robots abcNews.com, 10/11/2002 The Office of Naval Research is funding the development of new types of unique autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) that could help make monitoring the vast high seas more manageable.
Researchers sweat out global warming. Fast pace, regional variations make consensus difficult San Francisco Chronicle, 9/9/2002 Through observations and climate models, polar scientists try to discern why the warming trend around the globe has been most dramatic and variable in regions around the poles.
Scientists zero in on Arctic, hemisphere-wide climate swings UW News and Information, 8/29/2002 A review of recent climate change in the Arctic by APL polar scientists Richard Moritz and Cecilia Bitz, and co-author Eric Steig of the UW's Quaternary Research Center, appears in the August 30th special polar-science issue of Science.
UW scientists tout cancer therapy The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 7/30/2002 CIMU Director Lawrence Crum and colleagues hosted the second annual symposium on therapeutic ultrasound where they presented data and made a case for moving the technology to the fast track.
Research ongoing on device to spot, halt internal bleeding The Seattle Times, 7/15/2002 Within five years, a portable device for detecting and stopping internal bleeding may be a reality. The device would act like an acoustic blowtorch, using intense sound waves to cook bleeding tissue shut, cauterizing it like a hot iron.
Scientists recover North Pole mooring from 2 1/2 miles deep in ocean UW News and Information, 5/7/2002 Scientists and engineers recovered the mooring that had been anchored to the Arctic Ocean floor in April 2001, deployed a new mooring near the same location, conducted CTD surveys across hundreds of miles, and deployed a small fleet of drifting buoys on the ice.
A new way to keep an eye on sockeye KOMO 4 News, 2/20/2002 The DIDSON (Dual frequency IDentification SONar) now saves salmon. Originally designed to give the U.S. Navy "underwater eyes," DIDSON provides surveillance to prevent explosives from being attached to ships.
Hawaiian Ridge HOME efforts to understand deep-ocean mixing UW News and Information, 2/11/2002 APL-UW oceanographers are studying how waves generated by the internal tide interact with topography and how this interaction may produce up to 90% of the mixing throughout the world's oceans. 'Internal' tides may reveal secrets of fisheries The Honolulu Advertiser, 2/16/2002
Sonar will be tested on Alaska salmon count The Seattle Times, 2/6/2002 APL-UW engineers have developed a long-range ultrasound video system that counts and measures the length of spawning salmon in rivers.
UW 'bloodless surgery' project crucial in wartime The Seattle Times, 12/12/2001 Researchers at the Center for Industrial and Medical Ultrasound (APL-UW) are working on an ultrasound-based surgical method that could reduce battlefield casualties and revolutionize civilian medical care.
Now North Pole researchers can monitor ice thickness and water temps throughout a year University Week, 4/26/2001 APL-UW scientists from the Polar Science Center lead a five-year, $3.9 million project, funded by the National Science Foundation, to take the year-round pulse of the Arctic Ocean and learn how the world's northernmost sea helps regulate global climate.
Grant-funded project to tackle uncertainty of weather forecasting UW News and Publications, 4/5/2001 Associate Director Miyamoto is part of a multi-disciplinary team whose efforts will improve weather forecasting tools for aircraft pilots and ship captains.
UW receives $3.6 million for studies in new field of space medicine UW News and Publications, 2/22/2001 High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) may find applications in space, where astronauts could use a HIFU device to stop internal bleeding caused by trauma.
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