UW oceanographers also are participants in a number of national programs:

• EOS Amazon Project
• World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE)
• U.S. Joint Global Ocean Fluxes Study (US JGOFS)
• U.S. Global Change Research Information Office
• Ridge Interdisciplinary Global Experiments (RIDGE)
• NE Pacific Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics (GLOBEC)
• Life in Extreme Environments (LExEn)
• Sandy Duck Experiment