SEATTLE — The University of Washington has received about $126 million to create a cable network on the seafloor to improve ocean observations.
The UW money is part of a larger grant the National Science Foundation announced today to the Ocean Observatories Initiative.
The university will build a regional cable network off the Pacific Northwest that will provide electrical power and communications bandwidth to instruments on the seafloor. This will allow researchers monitoring earthquakes, ocean currents, water chemistry and other ocean processes to tap into that power with sensors, robots and other instruments.
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