Ray Hilborn – Professor, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences – recently authored a book entitled “Overfishing: what everyone needs to know”. In it, he explores questions like What is overfishing?, How do we estimate the abundance of animals in the ocean?, and How will climate affect fish populations? to name a few. Check out the recent New York Times book review of it here.
Read more »New study highlights the commercial and ecological importance of forage fish - Washington Post
A report released earlier this week by the 13-member Lenfest Forage Fish Task Force – which includes UW scientists Tim Essington (School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences) and Dee Boersma (Biology) – details the importance of forage fish to commercially valuable fish species and other’s dependent upon them as a food source. Check out the report’s executive summary, or read about it in the Washington Post.
Read more »Fossil raindrop impressions imply greenhouse gases loaded early atmosphere
In ancient Earth history, the sun burned as much as 30 percent dimmer than it does now. Theoretically that should have encased the planet in ice, but there is geologic evidence for rivers and ocean sediments between 2 billion and 4 billion years ago. Scientists have speculated that temperatures warm enough to maintain liquid water were the result of a much thicker atmosphere, high concentrations of greenhouse gases or a combination of the two.
Read more at UW Today »Weather and climate-related extreme events: an op-ed in Eos
Atmospheric Sciences Professor John M. Wallace published an op-ed in the AGU journal Eos, exploring the relationships between global warming and extreme events. What does one mean in relation to the other, and is the conversation useful? Check out the PDF here.
Read more »SAFS lab develops genomic resources for Pacific Herring - PloS ONE
Pacific herring are culturally and commercially important. To understand more about them at the organism and population scales, we need access to their genome. Scientists in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences published a paper in PLoS ONE this week that describes their work to provide genomic resources to further research on the Pacific Herring. Authors include Steven Roberts, Lorenz Hauser, Lisa W.
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