Liquid Robotics, Inc. (LRI) developer of the Wave Glider and a company, which partnered with IGPP on the successful proof-of-concept Autonomously Deployed Deep-ocean Seismic System - Communications Gateway for Ocean Observatories (ADDOSS) project, has prepared a case study report on ADDOSS’s successor, the proposed (pending NSF funding)  Robotically Installed and Online Remote Ocean Seafloor Observatory (RIO ROSO) program: http://goo.gl/0Ai7Bo.

Join SIO GAMES Saturday, June 4, at the Smithsonian in Washington DC, in celebration of World Ocean Day (https://ocean.si.edu/world-ocean-day-2016-smithsonian-national-museum-natural-history). During the event, which runs from 10AM-4:30PM, SIO GAMES will showcase its new two-player virtual reality game "ARCTIC EXPLORER: THE ELUSIVE NARWHAL” (siogames.ucsd.edu/ae/).

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has posted the committee report from the second, and final, phase of the lessons learned from Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident.  The congressionally mandated study (http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=21874), conducted by 17 distinguished scientists and engineers, including IGPP’s John Orcutt, has determined that the Fukushima accident offers a "wake-up call" as to the risks nuclear fuel pools pose to health and safet

Want to know more about the "Glamorous Life of a Geophysicist"? IGPP's John DeSanto has been keeping a blog that will allow followers to do just that!

IGPP Post-Doc Matthew Siegfried is one of three emerging researchers to have their NSF-funded Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (WISSARD) project-related research recently published. Siegfrield's West Antarctica Ice-sheet, Subglacial Lake Whillans findings appeared in the 16 March 2016 issue of Geophysical Research Letters (http://goo.gl/CuCTLK).