For University of Washington professor Sally Brown, it’s always been about food in cities. She got her start as a chef in New York City, then ran a wholesale vegetable business selling only locally grown vegetables in the New York area. Brown then went to graduate school to learn how city waste could be used to enrich soils on nearby farms.
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A new University of Washington study finds that in coral reefs where fishing occurs, nearly half of the key nutrients found in fish urine are absent from the ecosystem due to there being fewer large-bodied and predator fish present.
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Based at the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, Levin hopes to connect the dots across all programs to yield better conservation outcomes.
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Congratulations to Oceanography's Charles Eriksen and Deborah Kelley, and Atmospheric Sciences' Steven Warren! All three were elected into the newest class of American Geophysical Union fellows.
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A paper published this week in Science finds evidence to support stories that a massive flood occurred in China about 4,000 years ago, during the reign of Emperor Yu. The study, led by Chinese researcher Qinglong Wu, suggests that a huge landslide dam break could have redirected the Yellow River, giving rise to the legendary flood that Emperor Yu is credited with controlling.
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