UW News
Eric D’Asaro
June 21, 2018
NASA, NSF expedition to study ocean carbon embarks in August from Seattle
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More than 100 scientists and crew from more than 20 U.S. research institutions, including the UW, will depart in August for a month-long expedition to study how the ocean absorbs carbon from the atmosphere.
January 18, 2018
Temporary ‘bathtub drains’ in the ocean concentrate flotsam
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An experiment using hundreds of plastic drifters in the Gulf of Mexico shows that rather than simply spread out, as current calculations would predict, many of them clumped together in a tight cluster.