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Unlocking secrets of the ocean

Students, scientists, engineers 鈥� and even some robots 鈥� have joined forces to build the world鈥檚 largest deep鈥搒ea ocean observatory off the coast of Washington and Oregon.

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At the 糖心原创, students are gaining real-world experience working with scientists and engineers on such groundbreaking projects as the .

UW student Claire Knox
Claire Knox, a senior in oceanography, about her experiences on the Visions ’14 cruise.

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The students have spent two weeks or more working aboard the UW鈥檚 large research vessel, the Thomas G. Thompson, during an 83-day expedition. About 45 students, mostly undergraduates, are participating.

Most are taking the聽, which has them working with scientists, engineers 鈥� and a specialized robot called ROPOS that installs cables, power and communication hubs and instruments on the ocean floor as part of the observatory construction phase.

By the time the expedition wraps up, the team will have installed tethered robots that zoom up and down 9,000-foot-tall cables while measuring chemical and biological properties throughout the ocean depths. The team also has lain thousands of feet of extension cables and installed 150 instruments on the ocean floor and in the water off Oregon and Washington.

 

Engineers attach a pod that will zoom up and down along the yellow cable in water at the base of the Axial undersea volcano.
Engineers attach a pod that will zoom up and down along the yellow cable in water at the base of the Axial undersea volcano. Photo: Ed McNichol / Mumbian Enterprises, Inc.

It was really nice being a part of the actual science part of the cruise.聽Being exposed to real fieldwork is something I wouldn鈥檛 have gotten otherwise.

鈥� Charles Garcia, a senior in oceanography