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Andy Jessup
Senior Principal Oceanographer Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Affiliate Associate Professor, Mechanical 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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Energy Harvested from a River in Alaska |
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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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Tracking Swordfish for Ocean Research
Peter Gaube
4 November 2019
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Wave Glider Observations in the Southern Ocean
James Girton, Jim Thomson, Alex de Klerk, Avery Snyder, Ryan Newell
4 September 2019
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Wave Measurements at Ocean Weather Station PAPA
Jim Thomson, Joe Talbert, Eric D'Asaro, Ramsey Harcourt
29 August 2019
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Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star departs Seattle for important arctic mission
KING 5 News (Seattle)
Glenn Farley
4 December 2020
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Spearfish insights from the IGFA great marlin race
HOT Bluewater Magazine
1 November 2020
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The rainbows of Bristol Bay
Cool Green Science, The Nature Conservancy
Matthew Miller
9 September 2020
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Challenges in the identification and interpretation of phenological shifts: Anthropogenic influences on adult migration timing in salmonids
Tillotson, M.D., M.C. Arostegui, C.S. Austin, A.E. Lincoln, W. Matsubu, K.N. McElroy, and T.P. Quinn
25 January 2021
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Wave-driven flow along a compact marginal ice zone
Thomson, J., B. Lund, J. Hargrove, M.M. Smith, J. Horstmann, and J.A. MacKinnon
19 January 2021
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Long-term observations of the group structure of surface waves in ice
Gemmrich, J., T. Mudge, and J. Thomson
13 January 2021
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