Author: Deborah Kelley
Welcome to the Interactive Oceans Data Portal
The Interactive Oceans Data Portal is an interface designed to provide scientists, educators, and students easy access to Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI)
Student Application: Please Join Us On the VISIONS 2020 Seagoing Expedition
We are looking for students interested in the UW Sea-Going Research and Discovery course (OCEAN 411). This at-sea course will provide you
Pythias Oasis: An Underwater Spring Unlike Any Other
In ancient Greece, the Pythia was the oracle at Delphi who sat in a temple built above a seismic fissure and ‘prophesized’
A Record-Setting Operations and Maintenance Regional Cabled Array Cruise
This summers’ Regional Cabled Array (RCA) 44-day expedition set a record for operational infrastructure, number of Jason dives and logistics. The RCA
An Endless Stream of Coffee
I never drank coffee until I became a teacher. Fourteen years of teaching and now I look forward to my cup of coffee every morning. It isn’t the taste or smell I look forward to. Routine brings me comfort.
John Casey
On June 30, during the orientation and safety meeting for Leg 4 of Visions ‘19, I felt my phone vibrate inside my pocket. It rang for a long time.
Night Owls
At 3 am on any given day of VISIONS’19, you can be sure that a lively scene is unfolding under a spinning disco ball inside a blue shipping container on the Atlantis’s focsle deck.
Teacher Stowaway – Working for Room and Board
This is a ship I cannot sleep on. Everything is different from being on land. The rolling of the waves, noises of the engine, sloshing sounds of waves against the hull, echoing of a 24-hour working metal city, and shared “head” for 5 people that sounds like it is situated right by my pillow.
In Hot Water
On the surface, 300 miles offshore of Oregon, the R/V Atlantis is surrounded on all sides by deep blue water and rolling