APL-UW

Department Lead  

Chris Chickadel

Senior Principal Oceanographer

Affiliate Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Areas   Research Tools  
  • Air-Sea Exchange—gas and heat, biogeochemical cycling, rainfall
  • Coastal—rivers, tidal flats, nearshore
  • Ocean/Atmosphere—climate change, ocean circulation, atmospheric rolls, hurricanes
  • Sensors—microwave, infrared, laser, hydrophone, dissolved gas
  • Waves—wave breaking, internal waves

Our remote sensing tools span a wide range of scales — from satellite remote sensing, to field experiments using surface and airborne platforms, and to laboratory experiments in wave tanks. Remote sensing instruments used include electro-optical sensors (microwave, infrared, and laser) and acoustic sensors (sonars and hydrophones).

Projects All Media Coverage All Publications All

Around the Americas — One Island One Ocean

Andy Jessup, Harry Stern, Amanda Labrado, Jim Thomson

5 May 2025

Arctic PISCES

Jim Thomson, Jason Gobat, Craig Lee, Bonnie Light, Axel Schweiger

14 April 2025

First Look at PACE Ocean Color Observations

Ali Chase

26 April 2024

Seawater synergy

DEIXIS Magazine

Wudan Yan

1 November 2025

3 reasons why the Pacific Ocean tsunami fizzled before reaching WA

The Seattle Times

Conrad Swanson

30 July 2025

How to see bioluminescence in Seattle's waterways

Seattle Met

Taylor McKenzie Gerlach

12 June 2025

Fostering tropical cyclone research and applications with synthetic aperture radar

Mouche, A., and 28 others including R.C. Foster

1 January 2026

Pelagic sharks target long-lived, retentive anticyclonic eddies in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean

Braun, C.D., and 12 others including P. Gaube

20 November 2025

Global distribution and governing dynamics of submesoscale density fronts

Whalen, C.B., and K. Drushka

1 October 2025
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