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! 

Each week we share the latest publications coming from the College of the Environment. This week, three new articles co-authored by members of the College of the Environment were added to the Web of Science or published online. 1. Title: Molecular Paleohydrology: Interpreting the Hydrogen- Isotopic Composition of Lipid Biomarkers from Photosynthesizing Organisms (Abstract only; subscription required for full text) Authors: Sachse, Dirk1; Billault, Isabelle2; Bowen, Gabriel J.3; Chikaraishi, Yoshito4; Dawson, Todd E.5; Feakins, Sarah J.6; Freeman, Katherine H.7; Magill, Clayton R.7; McInerney, Francesca A.8; van der Meer, Marcel T. 

With historically unprecedented ice loss in the Arctic, The Coast Guard suddenly has vast new areas where it needs to monitor ship traffic and perform search-and-rescue operations, and researchers from UW have been tagging along. OCEAN‘s Jamie Morison is quoted; read more about this partnership and what they’re finding. 

A new report by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Washington Department of Ecology concludes that existing studies fail to show conclusively that nitrogen from septic systems, fertilizers and other human sources have caused Hood Canal’s oxygen levels to drop by 0.2 milligrams per liter — the threshold for legal enforcement. OCEAN‘s Jan Newton is quoted; read more here.