Author, reporter Lynda Mapes discusses year with 100-year-old ‘Witness Tree’ in April 21 talk

What would it be like to spend an entire year embedded in the forest, learning about the human and natural history of a 100-year-old tree? Local author and Seattle Times reporter Lynda V. Mapes did just that during her Bullard Fellowship in Forest Research, in which she spent 2014-15 at Harvard Forest in Petersham, Massachusetts, learning from scientists, researchers—and an old red oak tree.

Negative shortwave cloud feedback, the Black Sea oxygen inventory, 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 negative shortwave cloud feedback, the Black Sea oxygen inventory, and more. Read on!

UW-led field project watching clouds from a remote island off Antarctica

Instruments, installed in late March, will record just how cloudy it is in the Southern Ocean, how much sunlight reaches the surface, and how much water is in these clouds.

It turns out not all clouds are created equal. Though Seattle presents an ideal location for cloud-gazing, it can’t reproduce the unique clouds in a part of the world thought to play a key role in the planet’s climate. The vast Southern Ocean circling Antarctica soaks up a large portion of the carbon emissions taken up by the oceans and stores some of the extra heat trapped by the carbon emissions that remain in the air.

ROV team with ties to UW Environment heads to the White House

In 2015, prior to the International Competition, AMNO & CO took first place at the MATE ROV Pacific Northwest Regional competition.In 2015, prior to the International Competition, AMNO & CO took first place at the MATE ROV Pacific Northwest Regional competition.

AMNO & CO, a team of local students who design and build ocean-ready remote-controlled submersibles, was recently invited to attend the prestigeous White House Science Fair on April 13, 2016. According to the White House, students attending this year’s Science Fair—the last of six hosted by the Obama Administration—are tackling the nation’s greatest challenges, from combatting climate change to uncovering new ways to fight cancer and reaching farther beyond our atmosphere as part of the Mars generation.

Carbon dioxide in the free troposphere, butterflies, 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 carbon dioxide in the free troposphere, butterflies, and more. Read on!