October 29, 2020
The floats lab in the UW Ocean Sciences Building in 2017. The new project will build about 300 floats to track temperature, pH, nitrate, oxygen, chlorophyll and more. The instruments will be similar to these ones built for the SOCCOM project in the Southern Ocean.Dennis Wise/University of Washington
The University of Washington is among leading U.S. oceanographic institutions that have received National Science Foundation funding to build and deploy 500 robotic ocean-monitoring floats to monitor the chemistry and biology of the world’s oceans.
The National Science Foundation on October 29 approved a $53 million, five-year grant to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI); the UW; Scripps Institution of Oceanography; the Woods Hole Oceanographic…
