Across the world, big old trees face a dire future globally from agriculture, logging, habitat fragmentation, exotic invaders, and the effects of climate change, warn leading scientists in an article published this week in Science magazine. Jerry Franklin – School of Environmental and Forest Sciences – is a co-author. Read more here.
Read more »Listen: Every (Other) Breath You Take - KUOW
Ginger Armbrust – Professor and Director of UW Oceanography, and recipient of a multimillion dollar research award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation – talks about her research and what this new research money will do. Check it out!
Read more »Engineering Projects Will Transform Seattle, All Along the Waterfront - NY Times
This city’s urban shoreline on Puget Sound was never built with photo-snapping tourists in mind, or technology entrepreneurs jogging in the rain. In decades past, stretching back to the big-timber-and-fish era of the 1800s, the waterfront was a place of gaff hooks, warehouses and stink. But as brawny old Seattle faded, the hard parts of its industrial past — a shadow-casting highway viaduct, a crumbling sea wall — remained behind like bleached fossils even as the modern gloss of restaurants, hotels and apartment towers moved in.
Read more »Scientists find oldest dinosaur – or closest relative yet - UW Today
Researchers have discovered what may be the earliest dinosaur, a creature the size of a Labrador retriever, but with a five foot-long tail, that walked the Earth about 10 million years before more familiar dinosaurs like the small, swift-footed Eoraptor and Herrerasaurus. UW Biology post-doc Sterling Nesbitt led the study – read more here.
Read more »Op-ed on Washington State's efforts to address Ocean Acidification - NY Times
Washington State’s recent release of a Blue Ribbon Panel’s findings on how to mitigate and adapt to ocean acidification has garnered national attention. CoEnv scientists and staff played an important role on the Panel – read more about ocean acidification, the report’s findings, and next steps here.
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