From Earth’s surface to hundreds of kilometers deeper than oilmen drill, the Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) is investigating the surprising quantity of carbon in the deep, dark Earth beyond photosynthesis. Co-authored by OCEAN’s John Baross, the book Carbon in Earth outlines questions that will guide DCO’s program through 2019 and beyond. Click here to read more about this project.
Read more »Save the whales? There's an app for that! - Deep Sea News
Check out OCEAN’s Michelle Weirathmueller’s guest blog post at Deep Sea News, wherein she discusses the possibility of saving right whales by installation of passive acoustic monitoring. Also check out her personal science blog, which is super cool and we are so glad we found it!
Read more »What is behind the daily mass migration of crows to Bothell?
If you look up in the sky in north Seattle, you will likely see them every evening around sunset: Hundreds, perhaps thousands of crows flying overhead, headed in the same direction, just like clockwork. Those crows join up with more crows along their nightly route and eventually a murder of many thousands of crows converges on the rooftops and trees around the University of Washington, Bothell campus.
Read more at the Seattle PI »Dramatic changes following Elwha Dam removal - Kitsap Sun
Millions of cubic yards of sediment once trapped behind the dams on the Elwha River is moving downstream and into the Strait of Juan de Fuca. The rapid formation of gravel bars since December has been gaining the attention of researchers, including OCEAN‘s Andrea Ogsdon and Emily Ediam. Read more about this process, and why scientists think that these changes are just a drop in the bucket compared to the changes to come.
Read more »Changes in cloud distribution explain some weather patterns - UW News
Regional cloud changes, such as those that result in less rain during monsoons in India and those that indicate a widening of the tropics, may be as important to watch as the overall amount of cloud cover, new University of Washington research indicates. Authors of the paper, led by Ryan Eastman, a UW research scientist in atmospheric sciences, set out to examine observations collected from weather stations around the world as a way to study the distribution of clouds.
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