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May 21, 2013

UW's new $239M underwater lab: big opportunities and challenges

  • Corrosion is a major concerns so scientists have been testing equipment made out of airplane-grade titanium.
    • By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP
    Associated Press

    Scientists are eager for access to information from a quarter-billion dollar lab at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean that they hope will teach them about climate change, earthquakes and even the origins of life on Earth and other planets.

    The $239 million National Science Foundation project will install video cameras, seismic monitors and other gauges along a volcano in deep waters off the Pacific Northwest coast, giving researchers the ability to monitor activity 2 miles below the ocean surface.


     
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