Fernando Resende, assistant professor in SEFS, is creating technology to be used in the vast swaths of beetle-killed trees across the West, a technology that would not only produce liquid biofuels but would also mitigate forest fires and beetle infestations. Learn more about Resende’s exciting project here!
Read more »On maximizing the ROI of land conservation - Science
Conservation costs money, and the benefits don’t always outweigh the costs. To shed light on how conservation decisions may provide benefits or costs to larger regional goals, researchers from SEFS, and other collaborators, developed an economic model aimed at maximizing the ROI on the cost of the acquisition of lands for conservation. Their work was cited as the Editors’ Choice in Science; read the original open access paper here!
Read more »While Arctic sea ice reaches record low, Antarctic's is at record high - The Atlantic
Why is Antarctica seeing record-high sea ice accumulation? Does this change the game regarding global warming? APL‘s Jinlun Zhang is mentioned in this explanation of the atmosphere-ocean patterns and processes scientists are exploring in our polar regions.
Read more »Shifting winds in the Arctic could significantly impact lower latitudes - AccuWeather
Higher pressure over the North American continent and Greenland are driving recent changes in the wind patterns across the Arctic, which are impacting sea ice and could bring changes to the weather across North America and Europe, according to a new study from JISAO. Read more about this study here.
Read more »Fifty years later, Columbus Day storm still holds power - Bellingham Herald
The hurricane-force winds of the 1962 Columbus Day Storm still blow memories through the minds of those who lived through the most powerful windstorm ever recorded in the lower 48 states and certainly the largest in the Pacific Northwest. The effects were so wide-ranging that they included attacks by escaped zoo animals. ATMO‘s Cliff Mass is quoted in this memorial.
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