News out of ESS

Geology’s “Girls in the Boat”

While the world celebrates again the “Boys in the Boat,” our department would like to celebrate two geology majors who played historical roles in UW Husky Women’s Crew.

Study shows UW farm practices restore soil health

The soil beneath our feet may not often catch our attention but keeping it healthy can have major impacts on climate change and the overall sustainability of our food production system.

In the field: tracking seismic clues in one of the driest places on Earth

Unlike the Pacific Northwest, the Atacama Desert in Chile experiences very little rain. But the two regions are both seismically active. Faults in the Atacama Desert are slowly sliding past each other in a way similar to the Seattle Fault in Puget Sound and the San Andreas Fault in California.

Evidence of past large-scale earthquakes – field trip for incoming graduate students

In September, Dr. Brian Atwater, along with graduate students Paul Morgan, Hope Sisley, Andrew Shumway, and Trent Thomas, and postdocs Larry Lai and Jey Kim, led a fieldtrip for the group of incoming grads and postdocs to Copalis, near Ocean Shores, WA.

UW ESS in the media

• Unearthing climate history frozen in time, The Globe and Mail (part 1) Read part 2 and part 3 of the series
• UW Researchers land $10.6M to build subduction zone observatory
• ESS PhD student Madeleine Lucas honored as 2023 Homecoming Scholar
• ESS Faculty honored with 4 major AGU Awards this year
• ShakeAlert offers latest earthquake science as region practices Great ShakeOut safety drill
• ESS Alum and “Ranger of the Lost Art” Doug Leen releases new book

Community Thank You

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