A partnership between the University of Washington, Oregon State University and University of Alaska Fairbanks, CICOES fosters collaborative, multidisciplinary research across ocean, atmosphere, and fishery sciences.
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Atmospheric research including Arctic circulation and climate variability, air-sea interaction, carbon cycle, aerosol, and land-surface hydrology.
Chemical tracers of ocean circulation, sea floor observations, coastal ocean observations, tsunami observations and modeling, Innovative observations in the Arctic and north Pacific, and ocean acidification.
Fish ecosystem studies and management, J-SCOPE, ocean acidification, ocean climate variability and climate change, and marine mammals.
Eighteen hundred meters below Antarctica’s Southern Ocean, a volcanic ridge lined by hydrothermal vents burbles in the dark. As these vents belch out scalding water rich with iron and other compounds, they nourish the microscopic plankton that krill and other crustaceans eat, sustaining a food web that culminates in larger predators such as penguins, seals, and whales.
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By Joe Selmont, CICOES
For more than a century, a collection of orange cup coral skeletons bided their time in the Smithsonian’s archives. The corals were acquired off the U.S. West Coast by the crew aboard the R/V Albatross, a steam-powered, cast iron vessel and the first ship built specifically for marine research by any government.
When Ángel Adames-Corraliza was 10, a Category 4 tropical cyclone named Hurricane Georges tore its way across Puerto Rico.
