Spotlight

Undergraduate

Florence van Tulder, Student Researcher

Florence van Tulder’s undergraduate experience in Oceanography featured unique opportunities to engage in ...

Students Design Underwater Robot

Equipped with three video cameras and a pneumatically powered gripper that can grasp items underwater, the ...

Oceanography Senior Thesis Symposium 2012

Our 2012 seniors conducted research in the eastern tropical north Pacific off of the coast of Mexico on th ...

2012 Incoming Undergraduates

Welcome to our freshmen, transfers and new majors... ...

Jasper Boas - Alumni Spotlight

It actually might seem kind of weird how I ended up at UW, but to be perfectly honest, I’m a huge college ...

Fran Janny - Student Spotlight

Why did you choose to become an Oceanography major? I enjoyed how interdisciplinary the major was, ...

Senior Thesis Symposium

The Oceanography Senior Thesis Symposium presentations ...

Graduate

Scientists coax shy microorganisms to stand out in a crowd

The communities of marine microorganisms that make up half the biomass in the oceans and are responsible ...

Antarctica Sea Ice Microbial Ecology

During the Austral spring (September and October) we will be undertaking an investigation of several unex ...

Frost Flowers featured by NPR

Kulwich Wonders, a podcast and website, recently featured the research of graduate student, Jeff Bowman, ...

Tom Connolly - Graduate Spotlight

When and why did you choose to become an Oceanography Graduate student? ...

Rika Anderson - Best Student Poster at ISME

At this year's 14th International Society of Microbial Ecology (ISME) conference the winner of Best S ...

Frost Flowers Foster Microbes

Delicate ice-crystal structures called frost flowers arise on the surface of newly formed sea ice under v ...

Evan Firth

First-year graduate student Evan Firth attends internationally competitive course, entitled Field Techniqu ...

The Coldest, Deepest Ocean Water Mysteriously Disappears

The coldest deep ocean water that flows around Antarctica has been mysteriously disappearing at a high rat ...

Faculty

Mike McPhaden, AGU President

AGU member since 1979. Senior scientist, NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, and affiliate prof ...

Frost Flowers featured by NPR

Kulwich Wonders, a podcast and website, recently featured the research of graduate student, Jeff Bowman, ...

Gunnar I. Roden

Gunnar Ivo Roden Gunnar was born on December 27, 1928 in Tallinn, Estonia. He passed away peacefully ...

Mark Warner - Faculty Spotlight

Like many people in my generation, my goal to become a marine biologist was sparked by watching TV special ...