Ed Miles’ impacts on marine and climate science, as well as the College of the Environment and across the University of Washington campus, will live on.
Read more »Remembering UW’s Ed Miles (1939-2016)
UW part of NOAA-led cruise to study West Coast ocean acidification
The fifth West Coast Ocean Acidification Cruise is underway, with UW faculty, students, and staff investigating changes to ocean chemistry from Baja to British Columbia.
Read more at UW Today »Sockeye salmon, the shallow slip deficit, and more
Each week we share the latest peer-reviewed publications coming from the College of the Environment. Over the past week, four new articles co-authored by members of the College were added to the Web of Science database. They include articles about sockeye salmon, the shallow slip deficit, and more. Read on!
Read more »Early Earth's air weighed less than half of today's atmosphere
New research from the University of Washington uses bubbles trapped in 2.7 billion-year-old rocks to show that air at that time exerted at most half the pressure of today's atmosphere.
Read more at UW Today »Dennis L. Hartmann elected to National Academy of Sciences
Dennis L. Hartmann, a University of Washington professor of atmospheric sciences, is among 84 new members and 21 foreign associates elected as fellows of the National Academy of Sciences. They were chosen in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research, according to a May 3 news release from the academy. Hartmann joined the UW faculty in 1977 after earning his bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from the University of Portland and his doctorate in geophysical fluid dynamics from Princeton University.
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