Washington Sea Grant has partnered with Smith Brothers Farms of Kent, to produce a milk carton featuring “Cows for Clean Water” and offering a selection of simple steps for protecting Puget Sound. Read more here.
Read more »Handful of heavyweight trees per acre are forest champs - UW Today
Big trees three or more feet in diameter accounted for nearly half the biomass measured at a Yosemite National Park site, yet represented only 1 percent of the trees growing there. Jim Lutz, research scientist in Environmental and Forest Sciences, is lead author of a paper on the largest quantitative study yet of the importance of big trees in temperate forests.
Read more »Steep decline in research satellites will degrade Earth system studies - NYTimes
The precipitious decline of funding for US-based research satellites will imperil efforts to monitor the Earth system, a National Research Council report stated. Atmospheric Sciences’ Dennis Hartmann is quoted. Read more here.
Read more »Clouds' Effect on Climate Change is Last Bastion for Climate Dissenters - NY Times
The scientific majority believes clouds will likely have a neutral effect or even amplify global warming, perhaps strongly, but the lack of unambiguous proof has left room for dissent. Two CoEnv scientists – Christopher Bretherton, professor of atmospheric sciences, and Andreas Muhlbauer, research scientist in JISAO – are quoted. Read more here.
Read more »Masters' candidate raising funds for research through online crowdfunding site - MyBallard
Rachel Aronson is a Masters of Science candidate in the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs. She studies climate change impacts, and she’s turning to a burgeoning source of funding for her research – the Internet. Aronson is using Petridish.org, one of the many crowdfunding sites now providing a way for people to help scientists fund their research. Check it out!
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