By Viviana Castillo, APL-UW The humid air penetrates my pores as I sit over the bridge on a massive ship. The sun is setting, I can hear the engines roaring as the water splashes the sides of the hull. I put my headphones on to try and drown out the noise. It doesn’t work, but I pretend it does. I’m
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Finnish wave energy developer Wello Oy launched the next iteration of their Penguin wave energy converter (WEC) into the water in Tallinn, Estonia as part of the CEFOW (Clean Energy From Ocean Waves) project. The Penguin WEC2 will be towed to the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney, Scotland, where it will be deployed alongside Wello’s original Penguin WEC.
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An ocean research center of the University of Victoria, Ocean Networks Canada (ONC), is installing new infrastructure at its deepest node on its offshore observatory—Cascadia Basin, an abyssal plain 2,700 m below sea level—to test the location’s potential for a future large-scale neutrino observatory. Neutrinos are one of the universe’s most essential ingredients and one of nature’s most abundant subatomic
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