Avery Snyder Field Engineer II asnyder@apl.washington.edu Phone 206-543-7279 |
Projects
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Wave Glider Observations in the Southern Ocean A Wave Glider autonomous surface vehicle will conduct a summer-season experiment to investigate oceanshelf exchange on the West Antarctic Peninsula and frontal airsea interaction over both the continental shelf and open ocean. |
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4 Sep 2019
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Southern Ocean climate change is at the heart of the ocean's response to anthropogenic forcing. Variations in South Polar atmospheric circulation patterns, fluctuations in the strength and position of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, and the intertwining intermediate deep water cells of the oceanic meridional overturning circulation have important impacts on the rate of ocean carbon sequestration, biological productivity, and the transport of heat to the melting continental ice shelves. |
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Submesoscale Mixed-Layer Dynamics at a Mid-Latitude Oceanic Front SMILE: the Submesoscale MIxed-Layer Eddies experiment |
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1 Mar 2017
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This experiment is aimed at increasing our understanding of the role of lateral processes in mixed-layer dynamics through a series of ship surveys and Lagrangian array deployments. Instrument deployments and surveys target the upper ocean's adjustment to winter atmospheric forcing events in the North Pacific subtropical front, roughly 800 km north of Hawaii. |
In The News
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Wave Glider surfs across stormy Drake Passage in Antarctica UW News, Hannah Hickey The University of Washington sent a robotic surf board to ride the waves collecting data from Antarctica to South America. |
20 Sep 2017
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UW Seaglider is milestone in climate change research Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Monica Guzman Scientists are concerned that climate change might increase the amount of fresh water exiting the Arctic so much that it could change the density of the Labrador Sea, altering the circulation of the world's oceans. Data obtained by UW's Seagliders will help in showing just how quickly that could be happening. |
29 Apr 2009
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