Snow crabs and northern prawns, brine and breccia on Mars and more: This week’s published research

Each week we share the latest peer-reviewed publications coming from the College of the Environment. Over the past week, fifteen new articles co-authored by members of the College of the Environment were added to the Web of Science database, including articles about stock assessment models, marina development in Seattle, emergency response to marine disease, and more. Read on!

Mar 17, 2015

Weekly Research

Antarctic response to ozone depletion, atmospheric rivers in the PNW, mechanics of mussels and more: This week's published research

Each week we share the latest peer-reviewed publications coming from the College of the Environment. Over the past week, nine new articles co-authored by members of the College of the Environment were added to the Web of Science database, including studies of the economic valuation of your backyard birds, how nitrogen is processed in marine sediments, and more. Read on!

Mar 12, 2015

UW's Friday Harbor Labs prove to be a prime spot to study ocean acidification

For more than a century, scientists at UW have utilized Friday Harbor Laboratories’ unique location on the shores of the Puget Sound to study a variety of marine species. With the debut of the Ocean Acidification Environmental Laboratory in 2011, research at Friday Harbor Labs expanded into monitoring the water’s pH and dissolved oxygen levels, total alkalinity, effects of ocean acidification, and strategies for adaptation.

Ecosystem services in estuaries, the velocity of ice sheets, beetle-killed trees on fire, and more: This week's published research

Each week we share the latest peer-reviewed publications coming from the College of the Environment. Over the past week, twenty-eight new articles co-authored by members of the College of the Environment were added to the Web of Science database, including two open-access papers about biomass burning and modeling of clouds and aerosols, nonnative sea grass, and more. Read on!

Feb 17, 2015

Weekly Research

Seasonal cycles of maize, conflict and collaboration, submarine volcanoes, and more: This week's published research

Each week we share the latest peer-reviewed publications coming from the College of the Environment. Over the past week, eighteen new articles co-authored by members of the College of the Environment were added to the Web of Science database, including studies on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, the effects of hunting and fragmentation on animals in Bolivia, climate change and land use in Oregon, and much more. Check them out!