Monitoring the Restless Earth for the Next “Big One”
and regions at risk.But, until recently, the geological activity that leads to an earthquake like Chignik was a significant blind spot to scientists, lying hidden and inaccessible beneath the waves.Now, thanks to ongoing collaboration and development between underwater technology company Sonardyne, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the ability to remotely monitor our restless earth is not just possible but also becoming standard practice.Using a technique called GNSS-A, an increasing amount of coastline most vulnerable to earthquake and tsunami hazards, including
O-Ring Seal Design: Face Seals for External Pressure
much more detail than possible in this article. Zoom in on the sections relevant to your work, then come back later and explore other seal designs, such as dovetail grooves, SAE Boss seals, crush seals, rotary seals, and others that might be helpful another day on another project. In my early years at Scripps, I found the Handbook a little confusing in parts. Older, experienced engineers and machinists helped me through it. In the long time since, from inside the Arctic Circle to the bottom of ocean trenches, Parker design guidelines never once let me down. Pretty epic win-loss ratio. In the early 1980&rsquo
Entanglement Acquires Applied Ocean Sciences
government agencies and research institutions, including the World Wildlife Fund, U.S. Navy, DARPA, NOAA, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and the Office of Naval Research. Its scientific collaborations also include globally respected institutions such as the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and the Walter Munk Foundation for the Ocean.“This is a defining moment for Entanglement, and I’m proud to welcome AOS into the Entanglement family,” said Jason Turner, Chairman and CEO of Entanglement. “At its core, this acquisition is about
PacWave Inks ‘Historic’ US Wave Power Purchase Deal
.S. grid for the first time.The agreement marks a major step for CalWave, which will deploy its xWave technology at the PacWave test site. The company said the project represents its move from research and development into commercial operations after previously exporting power only to a microgrid at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography during a 2021–22 open-ocean deployment.The five-year agreement, running from 2026 to 2030, enables BPA to purchase up to 20 MW of energy per hour from OSU. PacWave’s offshore test site does not always operate at full capacity, but the arrangement provides
Researchers Link Antarctic Ice Loss to Subsurface “Storms”
ocean interactions to the early-career research team, said: “This study and its findings highlight the urgent need to fund and develop better observation tools, including advanced oceangoing robots that are capable of measuring suboceanic processes and associated dynamics.”Lia Siegelman of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego joined Poinelli and Nakayama on this project. Funding was provided by NASA’s Cryospheric Sciences Program with support from the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division
Scientists Discover Six Million Year Old Ice in Antarctica, Offers Unprecedented Window into a Warmer Earth
co-authors on the paper are: Julia Marks Peterson, Christo Buizert and Jenna Epifanio of Oregon State; Valens Hishamunda, Austin Carter and Michael Bender of Princeton; Lindsey Davidge, Eric Steig and Andrew Schauer, University of Washington; Sarah Aarons, Jacob Morgan and Jeff Severinghaus of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California, San Diego; Andrei V. Kurbatov and Douglas Introne of the University of Maine; Yuzhen Yan of Tongji University; and Peter Neff of the University of Minnesota.COLDEX is supported by the NSF Office of Polar Programs; the Science and Technology
Lander Lab: Cost Efficiency of Baited Ocean Landers
; writes Clark in her paper, “the findings presented herein are applicable to global aquatic biodiversity and conservation monitoring programs.”Baited CamerasAutomatic time lapse cameras for benthic studies have been in use since the 1950’s by researchers such as Prof. John D. Isaacs, Scripps Institution of Oceanography/UCSD, and Dr. Harold E. Edgerton, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.WHOI’S Harold E. Edgerton (left) assists in deploying a tethered deep-sea camera system onboard Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s Research Vessel CALYPSO during Mediterranean fieldwork in 1953. Photo
Hydrothermal Vent Temperatures Used to Forecast Eruptions
subtle but detectable temperature changes could offer the means to predict seafloor volcanic eruptions.Led by Thibaut Barreyre of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and University of Brest, with collaborators from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Lehigh University, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the study presents a 35-year time-series of temperature measurements from five hydrothermal vents along the East Pacific Rise, one of the most active segments and well-studied of the global mid-ocean ridge system.“Mid-ocean ridges are where much of Earth&rsquo
Barrels of Caustic Waste Found Off California
New research from UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography reveals that barrels of caustic waste, thought to be related to the pesticide DDT, have created an extreme environment around them.Though the study’s findings can’t identify which specific chemicals were present in the barrels, DDT manufacturing did produce alkaline as well as acidic waste.“One of the main waste streams from DDT production was acid, and they didn’t put that into barrels,” said Johanna Gutleben, a Scripps postdoctoral scholar and the study’s first author. “It makes you
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