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The eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula, a finger of the southern polar continent that juts toward South America, has experienced summer warming of perhaps a half-degree per decade – a greater rate than possibly anywhere else on Earth – in the last 50 years, and that warming is largely attributed to human causes.
But new UW research shows that the Southern Hemisphere’s fall months – March, April and May – are the only time when there has been extensive warming over the entire peninsula.
A study published in Nature Geoscience shows that woody plant matter is almost completely digested by bacteria living in the Amazon River, and that this tough stuff plays a major part in fueling the river’s breath.
“People thought this was one of the components that just got dumped into the ocean,” said Nick Ward, a UW doctoral student in oceanography. “We’ve found that terrestrial carbon is respired and basically turned into carbon dioxide as it travels down the river.”
FORT WORTH, Texas – Chris Williams was named recipient of the 2013 Ben Hogan Award on Monday in a black-tie ceremony at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas. Williams became the second Husky, joining Nick Taylor in 2010, to be honored with college golf’s most prestigious award.
Pictured: UW Coach Matt Thurmond (left) and Chris Williams at the 2013 Ben Hogan Awards ceremony.
DNA analysis is unearthing the origins of the Minoans, who some 5,000 years ago established the first advanced Bronze Age civilization in present-day Crete, and new findings suggest they are most closely related to modern Europeans.
Dr. George Stamatoyannopoulos, University of Washington professor of medicine and genome sciences, believes that the data highlight the importance of DNA analysis as a tool for understanding human history.
The fin whale is the second-largest animal ever to live on Earth. It is also, paradoxically, one of the least understood. The animal’s huge size and global range make its movements and behavior hard to study.
Oceanographers are using a growing number of seafloor seismometers, devices that record seafloor vibrations, to carry out inexpensive and non-invasive studies of the endangered whales.
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Join us on June 15 at CenturyLink Field in downtown Seattle, for the 138th Commencement of the University of Washington.
