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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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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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Hurricane Coastal Impacts
Jim Thomson, Alex de Klerk
14 December 2021
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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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Wind waves in sea ice of the western Arctic and a global coupled wave–ice model
Cooper, V.T., L.A. Roach, J. Thomson, S.D. Brenner, M.M. Smith, M.H. Meylan, and C.M. Bitz
31 October 2022
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Anticyclonic eddies aggregate pelagic predators in a subtropical gyre
Arostegui, M.C., P. Gaube, P.A. Woodworth-Jefcoats, D.R. Kobayashi, and C.D. Braun
7 September 2022
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Relative current effect on short wave growth
Guimarães, P.V., F. Ardhuin, Y. Perignon, A. Benetazzo, M.-N. Bouin, V. Garnier, J.-L. Redelsperger, M. Accensi, and J. Thomson
6 August 2022
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