A report released earlier this week by the 13-member Lenfest Forage Fish Task Force – which includes UW scientists Tim Essington (School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences) and Dee Boersma (Biology) – details the importance of forage fish to commercially valuable fish species and other’s dependent upon them as a food source. Check out the report’s executive summary, or read about it in the Washington Post.
Read more »UW Environmental Challenge goes big(ger) this year - UW News
This year’s Environmental Challenge was met with bigger, bolder and greener projects than ever. The annual event, co-sponsored by the Foster School of Business, the College of the Environment and the College of Engineering, gave over $22,000 in awards to some very cool project. Read more here! (There’s a video too!)
Read more »Fossil raindrop impressions imply greenhouse gases loaded early atmosphere
In ancient Earth history, the sun burned as much as 30 percent dimmer than it does now. Theoretically that should have encased the planet in ice, but there is geologic evidence for rivers and ocean sediments between 2 billion and 4 billion years ago. Scientists have speculated that temperatures warm enough to maintain liquid water were the result of a much thicker atmosphere, high concentrations of greenhouse gases or a combination of the two.
Read more at UW Today »UW's Tony Irving is the go-to man in the red-hot world of meteorites - Seattle Times
A chance meeting between a pair of treasure-hunting brothers and Tony Irving, an affiliate professor in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences, has led to the discovery of some the most extraordinary and valuable meteorites in history. Read more here.
Read more »UW Professor Norbert Untersteiner remembered - Seattle Times
Professor Norbert Untersteiner – Department of Atmospheric Sciences in UW’s College of the Environment – passed away earlier this month; he was 86. Read about his remarkable life and legacy – from his childhood in Austria to his adventures and work in the Arctic – in this Seattle Times piece.
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