With about a month and a half remaining in the Arctic melt season, sea ice cover continues to decline at a rapid pace, and is currently on par with where the 2007 record melt season stood at the same time of year. Read more about it here; UW’s Polar Science Center is mentioned.
Read more »25 from UW, including 2 from CoEnv, selected for state Academy of Sciences - UW News
The Washington State Academy of Sciences has named 35 new members, 25 of them from the University of Washington, in recognition of distinguished and continuing scientific achievements. From CoEnv, new members include E. Virginia Armbrust of Oceanography, and Clifford Mass of Atmospheric Sciences. Congratulations!
Read more »UW Arboretum's 'Art in the Park' contest already receiving stunning submissions
The contest doesn’t even start until tomorrow (August 1st), but the UW Botanic Gardens is already receiving beautiful photos by the Arboretum’s Art in the Park Campers. Learn more about this great opportunity, and check out the work of these students, here!
Read more »Endangered whales sing haunting wintertime songs - UW News
Kate Stafford, an oceanographer with UW’s Applied Physics Lab, wanted to find out if any endangered bowhead whales passed through the Fram Strait, an inhospitable, ice-covered stretch of sea between Greenland and the northern islands of Norway. When she listened to the audio picked up by a recording device that spent a year in the icy waters, she was stunned at what she heard: whales singing a remarkable variety of songs nearly constantly for five wintertime months.
Read more »Underwater ‘electrical outlets’ put in place for cabled ocean observatory project - UW Today
The first U.S. cabled ocean observatory reached a milestone on July 14 with the installation of a node 9,500 feet deep off the coast of Oregon. Like a giant electrical outlet on the seafloor that also provides Internet connectivity, the node was spliced into a network of cable segments totalling some 560 miles that were laid in the summer of 2011.
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