{"id":175053,"date":"2021-12-14T08:47:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T13:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/?p=175053"},"modified":"2021-12-14T10:16:52","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T15:16:52","slug":"nbcmp_meet_vanuffelen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/uncategorized\/nbcmp_meet_vanuffelen\/","title":{"rendered":"NBCMP_Meet_VanUffelen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>&#8220;Above water, GPS technology tells us where things are, but that doesn\u2019t work underwater. I want to use sound to determine locations in the marine environment.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/NBCMP_VanUff.jpg\" alt=\"VanUffelen in lab\" width=\"900\" height=\"646\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-174958\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/NBCMP_VanUff.jpg 900w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/NBCMP_VanUff-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/NBCMP_VanUff-100x72.jpg 100w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/NBCMP_VanUff-768x551.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/NBCMP_VanUff-364x261.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/916\/NBCMP_VanUff-500x359.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2>Lora Van Uffelen<\/h2>\n<p><em>\u2014Assistant Professor of Ocean Engineering<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lora Van Uffelen spends way more time than she\u2019d like running back and forth between her lab and her office, which are located across campus from each other. It\u2019s more than just inconvenient; it\u2019s not conducive to efficient teaching or research.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s one of several reasons why the assistant professor of ocean engineering is looking forward to the construction of the new Ocean Technology Building. Her lab and office will be nearby, many of her colleagues and collaborators will be in the same building, and the laboratory facilities will be designed to accommodate her specific research needs.<\/p>\n<p>Van Uffelen uses underwater vehicles like gliders to study how sound travels through the water and how it can be used to learn about the ocean and determine the location of platforms in the marine environment. \u201cAbove water, GPS technology tells us where things are, but that doesn\u2019t work underwater,\u201d she said. \u201cI want to use sound to determine locations in the marine environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her underwater vehicles contain acoustic receivers that are helping her study sound propagation in the Arctic, where oceanographic conditions have changed dramatically in recent decades, causing sound to travel very differently than it used to. She also uses acoustic sensors to listen for the sounds of marine mammals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new building with a tank specifically built for underwater vehicles is going to be great for testing my vehicles and will make it easier to move my vehicles from the lab to the outside for satellite access,\u201d Van Uffelen said. \u201cIt\u2019s going to make life so much easier.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Above water, GPS technology tells us where things are, but that doesn\u2019t work underwater. I want to use sound to determine locations in the marine environment.&#8221; Lora Van Uffelen \u2014Assistant Professor of Ocean Engineering Lora Van Uffelen spends way more time than she\u2019d like running back and forth between her lab and her office, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175053"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175091,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175053\/revisions\/175091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}