An earthquake warning in your hand
Rumblings started underground - and phones lit up. For the first time ever in Washington, ShakeAlert sent real-time warnings just seconds before the shaking began. PNSN Director Harold Tobin is quoted.
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Mount Rainier looks less snowy as climate change melts glaciers worldwide
On clear days, when Mt. Rainier is visible from Seattle and Tacoma, locals say "The mountain is out." But lately, melting glaciers have made that iconic view look rockier and less snowy. ESS Associate Research Professor TJ Fudge is quoted.
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How oxygen made the deep ocean home to animals, spurring rapid evolution
New research shows deep-ocean oxygenation supported animal evolution, but only after 390 million years when above-ground plants increased woody biomass, altering atmospheric and aquatic oxygen levels. This trend closely correlates with the rise of modern vertebrates. ESS Graduate student Kunmanee "Mac" Bubphamanee is lead author.
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'Revolutionary' seafloor fiber sensing reveals how falling ice drives glacial retreat in Greenland
A UW-led team of researchers, including ESS postdoc Dominik Gräff and Assistant Professor Brad Lipovsky, used a fiber-optic cable to capture calving dynamics across the fjord of the Eqalorutsit Kangilliit Sermiat glacier in South Greenland. This allowed them to document — without getting too close — one of the key processes that is accelerating the rate of glacial mass loss and in turn, threatening the stability of ice sheets, with consequences for global ocean currents and local ecosystems.
Read the full story on UW NewsUW professor on threats to glaciers, impact on western Washington
UW Associate Research Professor TJ Fudge talks about the status of glaciers in the Pacific Northwest and the dangers of shrinking glaciers.
Read more on King5Scientists say new government climate report twists their work
Assistant Professor Joshua Krissansen-Totton told Wired that "his work on ocean acidity billions of years ago has 'no relevance' to the impacts of human-driven ocean acidification today, and that calcium carbonate saturation is quickly diminishing in the ocean alongside rising acidity." The DOE report's section on ocean acidification cites research by Krissansen-Totton.
Read more on WiredWhat makes a tsunami - and what to do if one comes
ESS Professor and PNSN Director Harold Tobin is interviewed.
Read more at NPRMinimal U.S. effects from tsunami don't mean the forecast was inaccurate
"We should count it as a win that a tsunami occurred, we got a warning, and it wasn't the worst-case scenario." ESS Professor and PNSN Director Harold Tobin is quoted. Article also quotes ESS Professor Emerita Jody Bourgeois and alum and CWU Professor Breanyn MacInnes.
Read more at NBC NewsNew global study from Hyperion Research explores how cloud computing is transforming open science research
Associate Professor Marine Denolle is quoted.
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Seismologists tapped into the fiber optic cable network to study offshore faults
UW ESS researchers showed that they can monitor seismic activity at the ocean floor using fiber optic cables without disrupting telecommunications. They developed this technique in Alaska and then tested it off the coast of Oregon.
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