Environment
November 8, 2010
Tiny marine creatures could help diagnose the health of Puget Sound
University of Washington researchers are using tiny sea creatures called foraminifera to help diagnose the health of Puget Sound.
November 4, 2010
Eat a fish, save a rainforest: Professor says to weigh alternatives before we curtail fishing
Alarming news reports and journal articles in recent years about fisheries facing ruin the world over has led to calls to curtail, or more drastically, to completely cease harvesting fish from coastal and ocean waters.
August 19, 2010
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.
June 19, 2010
UW team wins $1.3 million to radically reduce hospital energy use
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) has announced that University of Washington researchers, with the architectural firm NBBJ, will receive a $1.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to extend nationally a model that reduces hospital energy use by 60 percent. The work of the UW team reflects a fundamental game change. Once upon a time, it…
August 6, 2009
Scientists compile most comprehensive look ever at fish stocks
Twenty-one fisheries management researchers and marine ecologists — many of whom have been at odds with each other in the past over the state of the world’s fisheries — have collaborated on a groundbreaking paper that puts forth a common way to look at fish abundance and exploitation as well as identifying management tools that have worked for rebuilding depleted fish stocks.
August 21, 2008
Underwater scout: New robot searches out best locations for components of undersea lab
Like a deep-sea bloodhound, Sentry — the newest in an elite group of unmanned submersibles able to operate on their own in demanding and rugged environments — has helped scientists pinpoint optimal locations for two observation sites of a pioneering seafloor laboratory being planned off Washington and Oregon.
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