Oxygen in the upper waters of the North Pacific, an area that accounts for about 40 percent of the world’s oceans, decreased as much as 15 percent in a little less than two decades between the early 1980s and late 1990s.
Author: Sandra Hines
Oxygen in the upper waters of the North Pacific, an area that accounts for about 40 percent of the world’s oceans, decreased as much as 15 percent in a little under two decades between the early 1980s and late 1990s.
The size of ice domes and movement of ice rafts on the surface of Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, are consistent with what one could expect of melting caused by a hydrothermal vent plume, or plumes, in an ocean beneath the ice, say oceanographers John Delaney of the University of Washington and Richard Thomson of Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
The size of ice domes and the clockwise displacement of ice rafts on the surface of Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, are consistent with what one could expect of melting caused by a hydrothermal vent plume, or plumes, in an ocean beneath the ice, say oceanographers John Delaney of the UW and Richard Thomson of Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
Greenhouse warming and other human effects on the environment may increase the possibility of large, abrupt changes in global climate, according to a recent National Research Council report issued by a panel of 11 scientists that includes the UW’s Peter Rhines and John Wallace.
Emerging strategies of using “land trusts,” where private forests and wildlands are purchased or donated, or of managing such lands under “conservation easements,” where the use of the property is restricted but the landowner retains the title, will be explored by regional and national experts at a lecture that is free and open to the public Wednesday, Jan. 16, at the University of Washington’s College of Forest Resources.
Most solutions to fisheries problems have been shortsighted and don’t provide the right incentives for fishermen, resource managers or scientists, according to Ray Hilborn, University of Washington professor of aquatic and fisheries sciences and lead speaker for this year’s Bevan Series on Sustainable Fisheries.
A group of UW faculty intent on changing the culture of graduate education has just received $2.
Science’s race to observe the state of the Arctic in the face of looming climate change is the subject of a free, public lecture, Exploring the Cold Oceans of the North, by UW oceanographer Peter Rhines.
Washington’s oyster industry owes its origins to the fertile shellfish beds of Willapa Bay.
Designers with the architectural firm Miller Hull Partnership of Seattle are now considering ways to rebuild Merrill Hall, which was firebombed at the UW’s Center for Urban Horticulture last May.
Designers with the architectural firm Miller Hull Partnership of Seattle are now considering ways to rebuild Merrill Hall, which was firebombed at the University of Washington’s Center for Urban Horticulture last May, and will explain the pre-design phase and seek comments from the neighborhood and campus community Nov. 19.
The crane and forest around it are closed to the general public because of safety concerns (the forest around the crane, for example, is a hard-hat area), there are scientific instruments on the forest floor and the area needs to be kept as pristine as possible for research to be meaningful. Please don’t include the crane in travel or outdoors stories leading readers or viewers to think they can visit. This will only frustrate people and cause them to be upset with the research staff.
Going up — A key factor in forest growth, and subsequent carbon sequestration, is the way trees take up and give off water. Work at the crane covers this process from below the forest floor to the very tops of the trees. A new project at the crane site is trying to determine the significance of what scientists call hydraulic lift in the root zone.
The unspeakable attacks this morning are an assault on America and on civilized society everywhere. These acts come from a source that combines hatred, ignorance and remorseless violence.
About three quarters of the water pouring into the Pacific Ocean from the West Coast comes from the Columbia River.
New kinds of instruments and experiments — made possible with a just announced $5 million award from the W.M. Keck Foundation of Los Angeles — could give scientists the best way yet to study the rich microbial life that flourishes wherever the seafloor twists and buckles, and which is part of a biosphere beneath the Earth’s surface that may dwarf all life on land or in the sea.
President George Bush has named University of Washington Professor Marc Hershman — an expert on protecting and using coastal areas, developing seaports and the laws and policies governing U.S. ocean resources — and William Ruckelshaus as initial members of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy. The announcement from the White House Friday said the two Washington state residents were selected for the 16-member commission from nearly 30 finalists.
Today University of Washington administrators and friends in the Legislature pledged to rebuild the Center for Urban Horticulture, torched May 21 in an arson attack that burned the center’s main hall and destroyed or damaged years of research on ecosystem health and plant science.
Poplar research conducted at Center for Urban Horticulture since late ’80s
The University of Washington condemns this senseless act of arson that has destroyed decades of scientific inquiry aimed at improving the overall health of urban ecosystems. This misguided act has set back research concerning endangered plants in Washington, rehabilitation of degraded wetlands and even assistance for home gardeners. It is a vicious blow to some very gifted and dedicated faculty and students at the University of Washington. We abhor the violence and destructiveness of this act, and the potential risk to human safety. We hope the perpetrators are found and brought to justice.
Sunshine and May rains are bringing forth the earthy fragrance of field and flower to give everyone a touch of spring fever.
Tour one of the nation’s most sophisticated oceanographic vessels, learn more about deep-sea vents where superheated water billows out of the seafloor feeding whole communities of unusual microorganisms and learn about the latest University of Washington efforts to explore the world’s oceans at an open house the last weekend of March.
University of Washington researchers are expected to receive $3.6 million over three years as part of a national consortium of institutions studying space medicine in hopes of someday sending men and women to Mars.
The Washington Department of Natural Resources is in the process of re-calculating the amount of timber that might be sold from state timber lands and is expected to revise the 650 million board feet per year that has been used as a target since 1996. The environmental, economic and technical considerations when calculating a sustainable harvest level will be considered by five regional experts in Seattle Feb. 28, from 1 to 5 p.m., as part of the Denman Forestry Issues Series offered by the University of Washington’s College of Forest Resources.
The University of Washington’s College of Forest Resources recently brought together 10 experts on forest certification to provide information to state and Congressional leaders, county land commissioners, agency personnel, environmental groups and foresters. Following is a list of Web sites and experts that might be helpful for future stories about forest certification in Washington state and elsewhere.
Either count the fish or count on many more decades of debate about what’s helping and what’s hurting Pacific Northwest salmon.
Paul Boardman, who has represented Washington state and the nation’s forest-products industry in Japan since the early 1990s, has been named director of the Center for International Trade in Forest Products at the University of Washington’s College of Forest Resources.
A run of salmon facing new environmental conditions diverged into two populations in as few as 13 generations – a time span of only about 60 years – according to research conducted at the University of Washington with sockeye salmon in Lake Washington and the Cedar River near Seattle.
A University of Washington oceanographer is in Washington, D.C., today for a press conference announcing the first phase of a program that could take climate forecasting to the next level of accuracy by routinely making measurements up to a mile beneath the sea surface at points across all the world’s oceans.
A small earthquake off the coast of Washington that caused hydrothermal vent systems miles away to pump out substantially warmer water at 10 times the rate and in an unexpected pulsing pattern has seafloor geologists questioning long-held assumptions about how fluid circulates within oceanic crust.
Teachers Beverly Mowrer of Sedro-Woolley High School, Cynthia Maldonado of Kelso’s Cornerstone Christian Community School, Robert Mize of Steilacoom Historical School and Misty Nikula-Ohlsen of Bellingham’s Whatcom Day Academy will sail Sept. 1 to 19 with scientists who are seeking information about the rugged, volcanically active areas on the seafloor 200 miles off the Washington coast.
Teachers Diane Nielsen of Mercer Island High School, Tom Lee of Battleground’s Columbia Adventist Academy, Evan Justin of Vashon Island Middle School and Melissa Cohen of Seattle’s Meany Middle School are among the teachers sailing Aug. 3 to 21 aboard the University of Washington’s vessel the Thomas G. Thompson seeking information about the rugged, volcanically active areas on the seafloor 200 miles off the Washington coast.
Intriguing archaeological sites that may go back 15,000 years and a mountain lake pierced by a volcanic cone that has been isolated for at least 30,000 years are among the primary targets for an international team of researchers heading for the North Pacific in the sixth year of the International Kuril Island Project.
The sheer diversity of tropical forests – where 130 acres can contain as many as 1,100 tree species and 366,000 individual trees – has long clouded the basic ecological question of whether tropical trees of the same species are “aggregated” or dispersed randomly across the landscape.
Undergraduates from the University of Washington’s College of Forest Resources will be explaining the range of careers possible in forestry today and competing in logger sports using chain saws, crosscut saws and axes during “Garb Day.”
Jerry Franklin was one of the first ecosystem scientists to visit Mount St.
More than 2,200 first-, second- and third-graders and their teachers have reserved spots at this year’s Arbor Day Fair sponsored by the University of Washington’s College of Forest Resources and its alumni association.
Kristiina A. Vogt, a professor with the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and former University of Washington faculty member, has been selected by UW President Richard L. McCormick as the new dean of the College of Forest Resources, effective July 1.
The following is a list of experts at the University of Washington who can help reporters who are preparing stories to mark the 20th anniversary of the eruption of Mount St. Helens. The first three scientists listed still have active research programs at the mountain.