Researchers dropped technology developed at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø off the coast of Florida this week to measure ocean waves in the path of Hurricane Ian. The test is one part of a broad effort to improve forecasts for these fast-moving and deadly systems.
Throughout the month of November 2019, a team of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers chased storms in the Arctic Ocean. The project, Coastal Ocean Dynamics in the Arctic, or CODA, is looking at how water currents shift and waves hit the coast with more open water, to provide better forecasts and predictions for the region’s future.
A ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø team is leaving to study how fall storms, dwindling sea ice and vulnerable coastlines might combine in a changing Arctic.
This week a ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø team is releasing a robotic surfboard to explore the surface ocean around Antarctica.
A ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø team will visit Alaska’s North Slope Borough the week of April 28 in preparation for a two-year study of how waves, ice loss and warming are affecting the low-lying region.
A hardy ocean drone made a first-ever attempt to surf across Antarctica’s stormy Drake Passage gathering data about ocean mixing.
The first measurements of waves in the middle of the Arctic Ocean recorded house-sized waves during a September 2012 storm. More sensors are going out this summer to study waves in newly ice-free Arctic waters.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, the state Department of Ecology and Washington State Ferries are working together to get a better understanding of water circulation in Puget Sound.