Stimulus money to help pay for seafloor observatory

The University of Washington is planning a groundbreaking $126 million observatory on the seafloor off the Pacific Northwest. The total includes about $35 million in federal stimulus money that will go to installing 500 miles of fiber-optic and power cables to beam images from the ocean floor onto the Internet, said John Delaney, a UW professor of oceanography and director of the underwater research facility called the Regional Scale Nodes program.

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