A University of Washington study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences uses a new approach to get a global picture of the fate of marine carbon. It finds that the polar seas export organic carbon to the deep sea, where it can no longer trap heat from the sun, about five times as efficiently as in other parts of the ocean.
Read more at UW Today »UW professor is digitizing every fish species in the world
Friday Harbor Labs-based scientist Adam Summers is working to scan and digitize every fish species on the planet!
Read more at UW Today »UW oceanographers grow, sequence genome of ocean microbe important to climate change
A University of Washington team has shed new light on a common but poorly understood bacteria known to live in deep, low-oxygen waters where the impacts of climate change are becoming significant.
Read more at UW Today »Opinion: Closing parts of the ocean to fishing not enough to protect marine ecosystems
Ray Hilborn, professor of aquatic and fishery sciences, argues that biodiversity is best served by regulating fisheries over a country's entire economic zone.
Read more at UW Today »Ocean forecast offers seasonal outlook for Pacific Northwest waters
A new tool developed by researchers from the College of the Environment and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration creates seasonal outlooks for Pacific Northwest waters.
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