Washington SeaGrant was recently awarded nearly $900,000 by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to help coastal communities protect against hazards, including tsunamis, winter storms and sea-level rise. The three-year project will help prepare Washington’s roughly 3,100 miles of coastline and more than 45 coastal cities for current and future hazards. The award is one of six NOAA Regional Coastal Resilience Grants awarded this year.
Read more at UW Today »
The UW’s School of Environmental and Forest Sciences is hosting its second-annual contest for undergraduate and high school students in Washington to create videos about what climate change means to them, in three minutes or less. The top five entries in each age group will be critiqued and judged by a panel of climate scientists, artists and filmmakers and screened in a public viewing at Seattle’s Town Hall this spring.
Read more at UW Today »
Each week we share the latest peer-reviewed publications coming from the College of the Environment. Over the past week, ten new articles co-authored by members of the College were added to the Web of Science database. They include articles about the global seafood trade, forest ecosystem services, and more. Read on!
Read more »
Satellite pictures show that the massive Greenland ice sheet is getting darker. Darker surfaces absorb more heat from the sun, hastening melt that contributes to global sea-level rise. A University of Washington scientist is co-author on a new paper that tracks down why the ice sheet is darkening. The study, led by Columbia University, was published March 3 in The Cryosphere.
Read more at UW Today »
Sometimes all it takes is artistic drive, a beneficial collaboration, and one charismatic critter to take home gold. A University of Washington team won first place in a science communication video contest that culminated during the recent Ocean Sciences Meeting. The entries were critiqued and evaluated beforehand by more than 37,000 middle-school student judges hailing from 1,600 classrooms in 17 different countries.
Read more at UW Today »
