October 12, 2010
Forget the Coppertone: Water fleas in mountain ponds can handle UV rays
Water fleas from clear-water alpine ponds are better able to withstand UV radiation than those in murkier ponds nearby.
October 7, 2010
Illustrious career brings singular honors for Mike Wallace
For more than 40 years, John “Mike” Wallace has been a fixture at the UW.
Greatest warming is in the north, but biggest impact on life is in the tropics
In recent decades, documented biological changes in the far Northern Hemisphere — from species extinctions to shifting geographic ranges — have been attributed to global warming.
October 6, 2010
Greatest warming is in the north, but biggest impact on life is in the tropics
Rising temperatures are most obvious in colder climates, but the impact of warming on life could be much greater in the tropics.
September 30, 2010
New UW-based Northwest Climate Center to develop new tools for climate change planning
A grant of nearly $3.
September 23, 2010
Trio of PNW universities to develop new tools for climate change planning
The nearly $3.6 million in Interior Department funding will ramp up efforts already underway at three Pacific Northwest universities.
August 23, 2010
Astronomy conference at UW to explore the sun and other cool stars
For many people, all stars are “cool.
August 19, 2010
National Research Council endorses project in which UW is a major player
The National Research Council has endorsed a major telescope project in which the UW is a key player as a priority among science projects to receive federal funding in the next decade.
Nanoscale DNA sequencing could spur revolution in personal health care
In experiments with potentially broad health care implications, a research team led by a UW physicist has devised a method that works at a very small scale to sequence DNA quickly and relatively inexpensively.
Slow-moving ‘earthquake’ under Olympic Peninsula will be well recorded
UW seismologists have begun recording a slow-moving and unfelt seismic event under the Olympic Peninsula, and it promises to be the best-documented such event in the eight years since the regularly occurring phenomena were first discovered.
August 16, 2010
Nanoscale DNA sequencing could spur revolution in personal health care
A new technique works at a very small scale to sequence DNA quickly and relatively inexpensively.
August 13, 2010
National Research Council endorses project in which UW is a major player
The National Research Council has endorsed funding for an international telescope project in which the UW is a key player.
August 10, 2010
Slow-moving ‘earthquake’ under Olympic Peninsula will be well recorded
UW scientists will monitor slow-slip event with more than 100 seismic recording stations.
July 26, 2010
UW professor’s lifetime efforts receive international recognition
Estella Leopold, a University of Washington emeritus professor of biology, has been honored with the International Cosmos Prize.
July 8, 2010
Making clouds brighter: Could geoengineering slow climate warming?
Throughout history, natural events such as volcanic eruptions have periodically spewed tiny particles, called aerosols, into the atmosphere and cooled the Earth’s climate by reflecting sunlight back into space.
Media advisory: Ocean acidification findings for Puget Sound to be announced
WHAT: Learn where Puget Sound waters have particularly low pH values compared to what is normal for ocean waters and what proportion is probably the result of man-made carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
May 27, 2010
Longtime UW climate researcher is new Washington state climatologist
Nick Bond has been doing climate research at the UW since 1990, but he wants to learn even more about climate and its history in Washington state.
Weird orbits of neighbors can make ‘habitable’ planets not so habitable
Astronomers hunting for planets orbiting nearby stars similar to the sun are looking for signs of rocky, Earth-like planets in a “habitable” zone, where conditions such as temperature and liquid water remain stable enough to support life.
May 26, 2010
Longtime UW climate researcher is new Washington state climatologist
Nick Bond, senior meteorologist with the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, will take over climatologist role.
May 24, 2010
Weird orbits of neighbors can make ‘habitable’ planets not so habitable
Computer models indicate some exoplanets might fluctuate between being habitable and not because of eccentric orbits of neighboring planets.
May 3, 2010
Experts list: Lessons from Mount St. Helens being applied today
May 18 marks the 30th anniversary of the eruption of Mount St.
April 29, 2010
Research shows part of Alaska inundated by ancient megafloods
New research indicates that one of the largest fresh-water floods in Earth’s history happened about 17,000 years ago and inundated a large area of Alaska that is now occupied in part by the city of Wasilla, widely known because of the 2008 presidential campaign.
April 28, 2010
Research shows part of Alaska inundated by ancient megafloods
New research shows one of the largest fresh-water megafloods in Earth’s history inundated an area now occupied in part by Wasilla, Alaska.
April 1, 2010
International convention shoots down proposed Zambia, Tanzania ivory sales
Petitions by Tanzania and Zambia for exceptions to a ban on ivory sales, strongly opposed by conservationists including Samuel Wasser of the UW (see our story <A href="http://uwnews.
March 11, 2010
UW conservation biologist urges more protection for elephants
An international convention will meet next week to decide whether to grant requests from Tanzania and Zambia to lower the protection status of their elephants, allowing them to conduct one-time sales of stockpiled ivory.
The smell of salt air, a mile high and 900 miles inland
The smell of sea salt in the air is a romanticized feature of life along a seacoast.
Conservationists urge treaty panel to reject ivory sale by Tanzania, Zambia
A team of conservationists writing in Science says relaxing a moratorium on ivory sales could increase the slaughter of African elephants.
March 10, 2010
The smell of salt air, a mile high and 900 miles inland
Researchers find that chemistry involving airborne chloride, thought to occur only on seashores, occurs at similar rates 900 miles inland.
February 27, 2010
Media advisory: UW expert on great earthquakes, tsunamis available for media on Chile quake
Brian Atwater, a University of Washington affiliate professor of Earth and space sciences and a U.
February 18, 2010
UW is home to network that keeps an eye on lightning around the world
What do you do if you are a scientist who studies space physics and electromagnetic properties of the atmosphere and a powerful force — namely, lightning — interferes with your work? If you are Robert Holzworth, you study the interference.
February 11, 2010
Scientists urge new approaches to agriculture in the face of climate change
Yields from some of the most important crops begin to decline sharply when average temperatures exceed about 30 degrees Celsius, or 86 Fahrenheit.
Radical new directions needed in food production to deal with climate change
Yields from some of the most important crops begin to decline sharply when average temperatures exceed about 30 degrees Celsius, or 86 Fahrenheit.
January 28, 2010
How many argon atoms can fit on the surface of a carbon nanotube?
Phase transitions – changes of matter from one state to another without altering its chemical makeup – are an important part of life in our three-dimensional world.
How many argon atoms can fit on the surface of a carbon nanotube?
Scientists have devised a way to explore how phase changes of matter from one state to another function in fewer than three dimensions.
January 26, 2010
New formula helps gauge the winds of change
UW research devises formula to examine just what types of change occur over time among complex and integrated structures.
January 21, 2010
Why hasn’t Earth warmed as much as expected? New report explores reasons
Earth has warmed much less than expected during the industrial era based on current best estimates of Earth’s “climate sensitivity” — the amount of global temperature increase expected in response to a given rise in atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide.
Faculty lecture: Climate change seen through the prism of the fossil record
Peter Ward has never been one to shy away from controversy.
January 19, 2010
Why hasn’t Earth warmed as much as expected? New report explores reasons
Earth has warmed much less than expected during the industrial era based on current best estimates of Earth’s “climate sensitivity” — the amount of global temperature increase expected in response to a given rise in atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide.
January 14, 2010
New research resolves conflict in theory of how galaxies form
For more than two decades, the cold dark matter theory has been used by cosmologists to explain how the smooth universe born in the big bang more than 13 billion years ago evolved into the filamentary, galaxy-rich cosmic web that we see today.
Sophomore is second author for research paper in major astronomy journal
New research led by UW scientists has shown clearly that two relatively nearby stars that normally are surrounded by disks have, at least once, seen those disks completely dissipate over a period of several years before they reformed from material spewing from the stars.
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