APL-UW

Department Lead  

Luc Rainville

Senior Principal Oceanographer

Affiliate Assistant Professor, Oceanography

Research Areas   Instruments & Sensors  
  • Mixing—sets the temperature and salinity structure of the ocean and the distribution of chemical species
  • Circulation—from small estuaries to entire ocean basins, circulation is critical in a variety of processes
  • Biogeochemistry—mixing and circulation help regulate ocean productivity and ecosystems
  • Instruments—technology plays a critical role in oceanographic research

Photos and descriptions of: Absolute Velocity Profiler (AVP), Deep Advanced Microstructure Profiler (DAMP), Electromagnetic Vorticity Meter (EMVM), Expendable Current Profilers (XCP)/Expendable CTDs (XCTD), Lagrangian Float, Modular Microstructure Profiler (MMP), Salinity/Density Probe, Saglider, Shallow Water Integrated Mapping System (SWIMS), Triaxus, and TriSoarus.

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Arctic PISCES

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

14 April 2025

Sigma Profiler Measurements of Salinity Stratification in the Upper San Francisco Bay Estuary

Zoltan Szuts

15 May 2024

Sampling QUantitative Internal-wave Distributions — SQUID

James Girton, Aurelie Moulin, Emilio Mayorga, Ren-Chieh Lien, Zoltan Szuts

26 February 2024

Find info, tools and maps for outdoor rec and fishing in the PNW on the NANOOS website

Fox News 12 (KPTV Oregon)

31 July 2025

Increasingly acidic seas threaten oyster farming

The New York Times

Jim Robbins

7 July 2025

Research buoy gets refresh on Bellingham Bay

Cascadia Daily News

Hailey Hoffman

20 August 2024

Taming turbulence closure in tidally driven simulations of coastal oceans and estuaries

Harcourt, R.R., J.B. Mickett, and K.R. Prakash

1 January 2026

Curvature-induced subduction in a cyclonic eddy

Wu, W., L. Middleton, D.R. Tarry, E.A. D'Asaro, and A. Mahadevan

1 December 2025

A modular control aid for profiling floats with a Gulf Stream case study

Tolone, J., T. Harrison, T. Curtin, Z. Szuts, and D.A. Paley

25 November 2025
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