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Chris Chickadel
Principal Oceanographer Affiliate Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering |
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- Air-Sea Exchange—gas and heat, biogeochemical cycling, rainfall
- Coastal—rivers, tidal flats, nearshore
- Ocean/Atmosphere—climate change, ocean circulation, atmospheric rolls, hurricanes
- Sensors—microwave, infrared, laser, hydrophone, dissolved gas
- Waves—wave breaking, internal waves
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Our remote sensing tools span a wide range of scales — from satellite remote sensing, to field experiments using surface and airborne platforms, and to laboratory experiments in wave tanks. Remote sensing instruments used include electro-optical sensors (microwave, infrared, and laser) and acoustic sensors (sonars and hydrophones).
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Mapping Underwater Turbulence with Sound |
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Riding Waves to Generate Electricity |
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A recently published paper details the flow conditions around a full-scale hydrokinetic river turbine.
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Characterizing PNW Seafloor Methane Seeps with a Fleet of Small AUVs
Craig McNeil
14 October 2022
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microSWIFTs: Tiny Oceanographic Floats Measure Extreme Coastal Conditions
Jim Thomson, EJ Rainville, Jacob Davis, Madison Smith
19 April 2022
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Using a Wave Energy Converter for UUV Recharge
Curtis Rusch, Morteza Derakhti, Brian Polagye, Dana Manalang, Jim Thomson
11 April 2022
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UW scientists drop sensors into Hurricane Ian
KING5 News
Sebastian Robertson
29 September 2022
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UW-developed wave sensors deployed to improve hurricane forecasts
UW News
28 September 2022
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Where food is scare, ocean predators find snacks in swirling eddies
Popular Science
Laura Baisas
8 September 2022
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Global observations of rotary-with-depth shear spectra
Waterhouse, A.F., and 10 others including C.B. Whalen
1 December 2022
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Acoustic sensing of ocean mixed layer depth and temperature from uplooking ADCPs
Brenner, S., J. Thomson, L. Rainville, D. Torres, M. Doble, J. Wilkinson, and C. Lee
7 November 2022
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Wave propagation in the marginal ice zone: Connections and feedback mechanisms within the air–ice–ocean system
Thomson, J.
31 October 2022
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