John Delaney News

Scientists have worked at deeper sites than Gulf oil spill

Wednesday, June 02, 2010

KING5's Glenn Farley interviews John Delaney about working in the deep sea.

A Deluge of Data Shapes a New Era in Computing

Monday, December 14, 2009

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. A 2020 vision for Ocean Science

Seattle Times Editorial

Sunday, September 06, 2009

A University of Washington oceanography professor's tenacious pursuit of research grants will yield an undersea observatory of extraordinary capacity and potential.

KING5 News

Wednesday, September 02, 2009

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.

New York Times

Wednesday, September 02, 2009

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.

MARS Deep-Sea Observatory Goes Live

Friday, November 21, 2008

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.

New AUV used to map locations of OOI RSN node sites

Thursday, August 14, 2008

The newest in a class of unmanned submersible robots has helped locate optimal locations for seafloor observation sites off the northwestern United States.

In Galileo's Wake

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

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.

Riding a wave of ocean research

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

An article in the Tillamook, Oregon, Headlight Herald discusses ocean observatory activities on the Oregon Coast.

Daily Astorian article and radio interview

Friday, June 20, 2008

Program Director John R. Delaney was interviewed by the Daily Astorian in Astoria, Oregon in June 2008.

Video: The Leading Edge of an Environmental Renaissance

Friday, April 18, 2008

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.

The Economist: 20,000 gigabytes under the sea

Friday, December 7, 2007

The World in 2008: Science

Interview on KUOW Radio

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

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.

Oceanography's Third Wave

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Article in Science Magazine: Underwater observatories linked by thousands of kilometers of fiber-optic and power cables aim to revolutionize oceanography.

BBC: Oceans lined with research cable

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

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.

New York Times Article: ‘Bringing the Ocean to the World,’ in High-Def

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

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.

Seattle Times Article: A Sea of Activity

Tuesday, February 14, 2004

University of Washington professor John Delaney is directing the Neptune project, which would increase understanding of the ocean floor off Washington's coast.

Science Magazine Article: Profile of John Delaney

Tuesday, February 6, 2004

Marine Geologist Hopes to Hear the Heartbeat of the Planet