This RSS news feed maintained by uwnews.org, the University of Washington Office of News and Information, includes the last 20 UW news releases about Applied Physics Laboratory. http://uwnews.org/apps/uwnews/public/rss.aspx?q=uwnByAuthorId&departmentID=204&numToShow=20 http://uwnews.org/images/uwnewslogo_small.jpg http://uwnews.org/ uwnews.org, the University of Washington Office of News and Information (c)2009 University of Washington News and Information | http://uwnews.org | uwnews@u.washington.edu | 206-543-2580 Bob Roseth | roseth@u.washington.edu Ken Fine | kenfine@u.washington.edu Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:36:59 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ A University of Washington Seaglider operated for 9 months and 5 days in the Pacific Ocean, an endurance record more than double what any other autonomous underwater vehicle has accomplished on a single mission. During that time it propelled itself a distance equivalent to crossing the Atlantic Ocean from New England to Europe, without periods of drifting with currents and while continually diving to collect data. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51901 Science Environment Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51901 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:32:53 GMT The University of Washington is slated to receive approximately $126 million -- of which $35 million is stimulus money -- to begin installing nearly 500 miles of fiber-optic and power cable and seven science nodes on the seafloor off the Pacific Northwest. The cabled observatory will give scientists new ways to study the processes that influence global climate, store human-generated fossil fuel carbon, cause ocean acidification, support major fish stocks and threaten coastlines with storms and tsunamis. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51819 Environment Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51819 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:50:00 GMT UW scientists say Seattle area bracing for triple-digit temperatures this week. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51162 Science Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51162 Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:51:55 GMT The University of Washington has surpassed its 2-year-old world record for operating a glider under the ice, this time by successfully operating one of its seagliders for six months as it made round trips hundreds of miles in length under the ice at Davis Strait. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49154 Science Environment Technology Dena Headlee (dheadlee@nsf.gov) and Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) and Peter West (pwest@nsf.gov) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49154 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:00:49 GMT One of the moons in our solar system that scientists think has the potential to harbor life may have a far more dynamic ocean than previously thought. If the moon Europa is tilted on its axis even slightly as it orbits the giant planet Jupiter, then Jupiter's gravitational pull could be creating powerful waves in Europa's ocean, according to an oceanographer with the UW's Applied Physics Laboratory. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=45923 Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=45923 Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:12:07 GMT University of Washington record-holding, ocean-observing robots that operate at sea for months at a time -- traveling thousands of miles at the behest of operators on land directing activities via a satellite phone network -- will be commercially produced by iRobot under a licensing agreement announced this week. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42437 Science Environment Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42437 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:28:27 GMT Scientists have feared that gradual acidification of the world's oceans would wreak havoc with organisms that build protective outer shells. But a new finding shows at least three species of coccolithophores - single-celled algae that are major players in the ocean's cycling of carbon - are responding to ocean acidification by building thicker cell walls and plates of chalk, contrary to what some recent lab experiments have shown. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=41364 Science Environment Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=41364 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:51:22 GMT In a pair of companion papers in Science Express this week, scientists investigate the role of surface meltwater on accelerating the flow of the Greenland Ice Sheet and outlet glaciers and conclude that, while surface melt plays a substantial role in ice sheet dynamics, it may not produce large instabilities. For one thing, it turns out that this meltwater has a much more subdued influence than had been thought on the fast-moving outlet glaciers that rapidly discharge ice to the ocean. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=41159 Science Environment Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=41159 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:22:43 GMT Record-breaking amounts of ice-free water have deprived the Arctic of more of its natural "sunscreen" than ever in recent summers. The effect is so pronounced that sea surface temperatures rose to 5 C above average in one place this year, a high never before observed, says the Applied Physics Laboratory oceanographer who has compiled the first-ever look at average sea surface temperatures for the region. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=38531 Environment Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=38531 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:30:18 GMT Sea ice that is more than a year old -- called perennial ice -- decreased by 23 percent during the past two winters in the Arctic Ocean as strong winds swept more ice than usual out Fram Strait near Greenland. That loss of perennial ice led to this summer's record-breaking ice retreat. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=36894 Environment Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=36894 Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:25:17 GMT University of Washington experts from the Applied Physics Laboratory and atmospheric sciences give their perspectives on this week's announcement that the ice extent minimum for 2007 in the Arctic Ocean was reached last weekend at a record-breaking low of 1.59 million square miles. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=36676 Science Environment Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) and Vince Stricherz (vinces@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=36676 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:43:55 GMT The University of Washington has been allocated $2.2 million for a planning phase to develop detailed engineering specifications for a cabled underwater research facility to be built off the coast of Washington and Oregon on the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=33010 Science Environment Technology Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=33010 Wed, 16 May 2007 00:28:44 GMT Two of Greenland's largest glaciers shrank dramatically and dumped twice as much ice into the sea during a period of less than a year between 2004 and 2005. And then, less than two years later, they returned to near their previous rates of discharge. Future warming may lead to rapid pulses of retreat and increased discharge rather than a long, steady drawdown, researchers say. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=30544 Environment Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=30544 Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:50:43 GMT Scientists with a just-announced $19 million grant are poised to develop new technologies and infrastructures to monitor changes in the Columbia River and predict how they affect wide swaths of ocean. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=26440 Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=26440 Tue, 29 Aug 2006 07:00:00 GMT This year's University of Washington-led North Pole Environmental Observatory program, which ran April 10 through early May, was followed immediately by another UW-led expedition concerning what's called the freshwater switchyard of the Arctic Ocean, which is underway until about May 17. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=24625 Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=24625 Mon, 08 May 2006 07:00:00 GMT With warming temperatures as the possible underlying cause, scientists wonder what is pushing Greenland's glaciers out to sea as much as 50 percent quicker than before. As a glacier loses large pieces of ice on its leading edge, openings may be created for ice to stream through more quickly, sort of like water flooding through a sudden break in a dam. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=23320 Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=23320 Thu, 23 Mar 2006 07:00:00 GMT While biologists sort out what levels of noise go unnoticed, are annoying or cause harm to marine mammals, physical oceanographer Jeff Nystuen is giving scientists and managers a way to sift through and identify the sounds present in various marine ecosystems.Knowing what sound is already there is needed when trying to establish noise regulations. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=22771 Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=22771 Fri, 24 Feb 2006 07:00:00 GMT As researchers Wednesday announced the lowest amount of ice cover in more than a century in the Arctic, the fourth consecutive year of record and near-record lows, two polar scientists at the University of Washington's Applied Physics Laboratory say they believe a tipping point has been reached. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=12459 Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=12459 Thu, 29 Sep 2005 07:00:00 GMT Two ocean-diving gliders built at the University of Washington were retrieved late last month near Kauai after setting a world record by traveling a quarter of the way across the Pacific Ocean. Two other UW gliders, awaiting retrieval from the Labrador Sea, have set another world endurance record with a deployment of 193 days as of early April. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=9418 Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=9418 Tue, 05 Apr 2005 07:00:00 GMT Extreme changes in the Arctic Oscillation in the early 1990s -- and not warmer temperatures of recent years -- are largely responsible for declines in how much sea ice covers the Arctic Ocean, with near record lows having been observed during the last three years, University of Washington researchers say. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=7070 Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=7070 Thu, 16 Dec 2004 07:00:00 GMT The world's fastest glacier, Greenland's Jakobshavn Isbrae, doubled its speed between 1997 and 2003. The rapid movement of ice from land into the sea provides key evidence of newly discovered relationships between ice sheets, sea level rise and climate warming. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=6848 Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=6848 Tue, 07 Dec 2004 07:00:00 GMT While forecasting hurricane tracks has become better and better, our ability to determine the potential ferocity of such storms has not advanced nearly as far. Five floats from the University of Washington's Applied Physics Laboratory, loaded with instruments and deployed in the path of hurricane Frances, have transmitted data that may help scientists better understand ocean conditions that put a damper on tropical storms and those that pour on the gas. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5525 Science Sandra Hines (shines@u.washington.edu) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5525 Wed, 15 Sep 2004 07:00:00 GMT