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Scientists have worked at deeper sites than Gulf oil spill
KING5's Glenn Farley interviews John Delaney about working in the deep sea. Full Story
Monday, December 14, 2009A Deluge of Data Shapes a New Era in Computing
A new book, The Fourth Paradigm, addresses the transformational effects of inexpensive high-bandwidth sensors on scientific fields. Regional Scale Nodes Director John Delaney is a contributing author. Reviewed on December 14 in the New York Times. Full Story
Sunday, September 06, 2009Seattle Times Editorial
A University of Washington oceanography professor's tenacious pursuit of research grants will yield an undersea observatory of extraordinary capacity and potential. Full Story
Wednesday, September 02, 2009KING5 News
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. Full Story
Wednesday, September 02, 2009New York Times
The vast network of fiberoptic and power cables and stations will relay continuous scientific data and video images from the depths of the seafloor via the Internet. Full Story
Friday, November 21, 2008MARS Deep-Sea Observatory Goes Live
Six years and $13.5 million dollars in the making, the MARS Observatory went "live" on Monday, November 10, 2008, returning the first scientific data from 900 meters (3,000 feet) below the ocean surface. Full Story
Thursday, August 14, 2008New AUV used to map locations of OOI RSN node sites
The newest in a class of unmanned submersible robots has helped locate optimal locations for seafloor observation sites off the northwestern United States. Full Story
Tuesday, July 22, 2008In Galileo's Wake
An article about John Delaney and his work on ocean observatories appears in the Lehigh University Alumni Bulletin, Spring 2008 issue. Delaney is Director of the Regional Scale Nodes program within the NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative. Full Story
Wednesday, July 9, 2008Riding a wave of ocean research
An article in the Tillamook, Oregon, Headlight Herald discusses ocean observatory activities on the Oregon Coast. Full Story
Friday, June 20, 2008Daily Astorian article and radio interview
Program Director John R. Delaney was interviewed by the Daily Astorian in Astoria, Oregon in June 2008. Full Story
Friday, April 18, 2008Video: The Leading Edge of an Environmental Renaissance
John Delaney, Director of the Regional Ocean Observatory program at the University of Washington and Professor of Oceanography, presented the Provost's Distinguished Lecture on October 30, 2007. Click on "Full Story" to access the video of this lecture.
Full Story Friday, December 7, 2007The Economist: 20,000 gigabytes under the sea
The World in 2008: Science Full Story
Tuesday, December 4, 2007Interview on KUOW Radio
John Delaney and John Baross, both professors of Oceanography at the University of Washington, are interviewed by KUOW's Steve Scher on the Weekday program about ocean observatories and ocean science. Full Story
Tuesday, November 20, 2007Oceanography's Third Wave
Article in Science Magazine: Underwater observatories linked by thousands of kilometers of fiber-optic and power cables aim to revolutionize oceanography. Full Story
Wednesday, October 3, 2007BBC: Oceans lined with research cable
The sea bed may already be strewn with a web of communication cables, but now marine scientists are laying hundreds of kilometres of their own. Oceanographers are building a network off the US west coast that will feed instruments at the bottom of the sea. Full Story
Tuesday, September 4, 2007New York Times Article: ‘Bringing the Ocean to the World,’ in High-Def
Thousands of miles of fiber-optic cables are strung across the world’s oceans, connecting continents like so many tin cans in this age of critical global communication. Full Story
Tuesday, February 14, 2004Seattle Times Article: A Sea of Activity
University of Washington professor John Delaney is directing the Neptune project, which would increase understanding of the ocean floor off Washington's coast. Full Story
Tuesday, February 6, 2004Science Magazine Article: Profile of John Delaney
Marine Geologist Hopes to Hear the Heartbeat of the Planet Full Story