The American Meteorological Society
at the University of Washington

Dave Grant - Sandy Hook, NJ 07732

In June the Ocean Institute's entire marine technology and minority recruitment staff (That would be Dave) was invited to the UW campus and NOAA facilities to study ocean technology and remote sensing.


The view towards Mt. Ranier from the "quad."


Main Library


NOAA research vessel


Pool for testing submersible buoys.

 
Pressure tank for testing equipment at "depths" of over 1000 meters.

 
A rack of "Drifters" - Buoys that repeatedly sink and resurface to broadcast water conditions.
   Paths of "drifters" in the Gulf of Alaska, Bering Strait and Beaufort Sea.

 
Sites tsunami warning buoys.

 
Several generations of Buoys
in the engineering lab.

 
Path of the Chile Tsunami

 
Path of the Pacific Island Tsunami

 
Computer-generated analysis of the tsunami waves.

 
Path of the 2006 Kuril Tsunami

 

 
Computer-generated analysis of the tsunami waves.

 

 

Details of the great Indonesian "Christmas" Tsunami: Epicenter and submerged landslides.
   

 
Studying global change: The effects of ocean acidification.

 
Ocean acidification?
No, just a moldy dead fish in lake Seattle.

  
Telling time by the sun at UW


One last look at "the mountain."