“The virus lady”, she’s known as. Alexandra Morton stunned U.S. scientists last fall with trace evidence found in wild salmon of a virus that killed millions of farmed fish in Chile. That was just the beginning. Read more about Morton here; SAFS‘ Tom Quinn and Ray Hilborn are quoted. 

Leveraging a set of photographs that had been tucked away for decades, researchers show the sensitivity of Greenland’s glaciers as they responded to the warm and cool periods of the 20th century. The Polar Science Center‘s Benjamin Smith is quoted. Read more here. 

SAFS‘ Ray Hilborn published an op ed in the New York Times about what it means for a fishery to be sustainable. Read it here! 

Scientists dissecting the remains of the disastrous 1980 explosion of Mt. St. Helens in Washington state say that crystal formations trapped in volcanic rocks hold important clues about when a magma-loaded mountain is about to blow — a discovery that could help volcanologists make more accurate predictions about future eruptions. ESS‘ Olivier Bachmann is quoted. Read more here! 

Check out this video and poster where UW graduate students explore the theme of ocean change from a multidisciplinary perspective, fulfilling one of the key goals of University of Washington’s IGERT Program on Ocean Change (IPOC). By helping students examine changes in the ocean from an interdisciplinary perspective, IPOC enables them to handle the complex problems an uncertain future for the oceans will present.