A University of Washington study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences uses a new approach to get a global picture of the fate of marine carbon. It finds that the polar seas export organic carbon to the deep sea, where it can no longer trap heat from the sun, about five times as efficiently as in other parts of the ocean.
Read more at UW Today »UW professor is digitizing every fish species in the world
Friday Harbor Labs-based scientist Adam Summers is working to scan and digitize every fish species on the planet!
Read more at UW Today »UW oceanographers grow, sequence genome of ocean microbe important to climate change
A University of Washington team has shed new light on a common but poorly understood bacteria known to live in deep, low-oxygen waters where the impacts of climate change are becoming significant.
Read more at UW Today »Joseph Wartman, David Montgomery honored for Oso landslide report
Two University of Washington professors are among researchers honored this week by the Geological Society of America for their study of the March 2014 landslide in Oso, Washington.
Read more at UW Today »Cougars could save lives by lowering vehicle collisions with deer
You would never guess it from their soft eyes and timid demeanor, but the swift-footed deer is North America’s most dangerous mammal to humans. New research from UW's Laura Prugh explains why.
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