Assistant Professor Alison Duvall has received the American Geophysical Union's early-career award for researchers in the Earth and space sciences!
Read more at UW Today »UW geologist wins early-career award from American Geophysical Union
Arc volcano releases mix of material from Earth's mantle and crust
New research from Earth and Space Sciences' Fang-Zhen Teng shows that a common type of volcano isn't just spewing molten rock from the mantle, but contains elements suggesting something more complicated is drawing material out of the Earth's crust.
Read more at UW Today »See, hear, and study the deep sea: Ocean Observatories Initiative data now live
Data is now streaming from the deep sea, thanks to an observatory installed off of the Pacific Northwest coast by the UW as part of a larger National Science Foundation (NSF) initiative to usher in a new age of oceanographic research.
Read more at UW Today »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 »UW-led field project watching clouds from a remote island off Antarctica
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.
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