The first cohort of DINOSIP students gain hands-on experience with oceanographic technology and sampling methods on the R/V Rachel Carson.

Researchers are using easily deployed and relatively inexpensive AUVs to find and map seafloor methane seeps. The vehicles' imaging sonars were cross-calibrated with shipboard instruments during a pilot study on Lake Washington in preparation for extensive mapping and characterization of hundreds of methane seep sites on the Cascadia Margin.

NANOOS serves the citizenry of the Pacific Northwest, integrating ocean observing assets, data management systems, and models to yield information products that diverse coastal communities use to ensure safety, to build economic resilience, and to increase understanding of the coastal ocean. (links to YouTube)

Installed on a yacht competing in the 2022/23 Ocean Race around the world is an Imaging FlowCytobot that takes 30K high-res images of phytoplankton per hour. Optical Oceanographer Ali Chase is using this vessel of opportunity to advance studies of phytoplankton group distributions across ocean basins. (links to YouTube)

Scholarship, discovery, innovation, and application. Video highlights of APL-UW research, education, and community activities during the past year. (apl-uw YouTube channel)

The report is organized to showcase high-impact discoveries reported to the community and our scientists', engineers', and students' extraordinary abilities to conceive, design, and execute experiments in the field over the past year.