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Teledyne Honors Doug Webb

Douglas Webb, an esteemed Oceanographer Emeritus from Woods Hole, MA, and founder of Teledyne Webb

Research, received recognition for his lifelong contributions to science at the Teledyne Marine facility located inNorth

Falmouth, MA, in early June. Teledyne staff members Clara

Hulburt, Shea Quinn and Clayton Jones delivered an infor- mative and historical talk about Webb’s legacy as an engineer, scientist, innovator, and world changer.

Webb contributed signi? cantly to developing low-frequency acoustic sound sources such as SOFAR, RAFOS, and Tonpilz for water mass tracking, long-range navigation, and tomogra- phy. He played a key role in the development of Vertical Cur- rent Meters (VCMs) to measure water chimney convection and pro? ling ? oats (ALACE). He commercialized this devel- opment (APEX) which became part of the ARGO program.

Standing Left to Right: Karl Boettger, Brian Maguire, Shea Quinn,

He invented and developed the Teledyne Slocum gliders.

Clayton Jones, Clara Hulburt, Kathi Sheehan and Andrey Morozov.

Webb pioneered the development of the buoyancy systems

Sitting: Doug Webb.

used in these ? oats and gliders, revolutionizing how scientists approach ocean data gathering. Argo is the most successful ocean observing program, contributing critical information Rutgers University Center for Ocean Observing Leadership about climate and sea level change. (RUCOOL) received the 2024 TOS Ocean Observing Award

Webb was also honored by Rutgers University’s under- for innovation and excellence in sustained ocean observation graduate class of 2024 with a letter of appreciation after the at the 2024 Ocean Sciences Meeting in New Orleans, LA.

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