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This presentation draws on anthropological work I undertook among wave scientists in the United States to argue that what oceanographers take ocean waves to be has been strongly imprinted by the techniques, technologies, and media \u2014 maritime, photographic, filmic, information theoretic \u2014 through which waves have come to be known. I offer an account of ethnographic fieldwork I conducted on board the FLoating Instrument Platform (FLIP), a seagoing vessel managed by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, in La Jolla, California. FLIP is a singular vessel, one that, once at sea, can \u201cflip\u201d 90 degrees into a vertical position \u2014with all the instrumentation inside swiveling correspondingly\u2014to become a stable platform from which to measure wave action. Moving from an examination of the contemporary use of infrared and laser imaging to study waves from FLIP, I place the platform within a longer history of wave science, reaching back into the Cold War, when ocean observation projects were conditioned by nuclear-age American maritime expansion, particularly in the Pacific. I then flip to the recent present, as scientists turn from understanding waves not only as a kind of infrastructure for maritime networks, but also as avatars of anthropogenic climate change.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch the seminar<\/strong><\/p>\n[vimeo 557020646 w=640 h=360]\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/557020646\">Ocean Waves, Ocean Science, Ocean Media<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user9924558\">Stefan Helmreich<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This seminar is part of the\u00a0<strong>Making the unknown knowable\u00a0<\/strong>seminar series. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/thebeam\/2021\/04\/20\/seminar-series-making-the-unknown-knowable\/\">Click here to read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof Stefan Helmreich, Department of Anthropology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 27 May 2021. Recording available below. Abstract How do oceanographers apprehend ocean waves? 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