UW building new kind of ocean observatory

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Channel: UW (University of Washington) · 2009 · Education

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The University of Washington is slated to receive approximately $126 million 
to install 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 climate, 
store human-generated carbon dioxide, cause ocean acidification, support 
major fish stocks and threaten coastlines with storms and tsunamis.

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