Earthquake showed Taiwan was well prepared for a big one - more so than parts of U.S.
Following a devastating earthquake in 1999, Taiwan upgraded its seismic infrastructure. Experts said it offers lessons for the U.S. West Coast. ESS Postdoctoral researcher Larry Syu-Heng Lai, and Professor and Pacific Northwest Seismic Network Director Harold Tobin are quoted.
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In the Field: UW researchers traveling to capture total solar eclipse
On Monday, large parts of the United States will experience a total solar eclipse. This eclipse is expected to be a more significant event than the one in 2017, and the next one visible from the U.S.
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Signs of life detectable in single ice grain emitted from extraterrestrial moons
The ice-encrusted oceans of some of the moons orbiting Saturn and Jupiter are leading candidates in the search for extraterrestrial life. A new lab-based study led by the University of Washington in Seattle and the Freie Universität Berlin shows that individual ice grains ejected from these planetary bodies may contain enough material for instruments headed there in the fall to detect signs of life, if such life exists.
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Opening up about menstruation during fieldwork to promote inclusivity
With fieldwork trips often planned down to the minute, discussion of where and when bathroom breaks occur is a common conversation among researchers. Commonly left out of these conversations is the topic of periods. ESS Assistant Professor Michelle Muth and PhD Student Sabrina Kainz are quoted.
Read moreAfter 2014 Oso landslide, what did we learn about preventing disaster?
ESS Professor and geomorphologist David Montgomery is quoted. Montgomery served on a governor-appointed landslide commission in the wake of Oso.
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ESS Alumni Climbing into History
Not surprisingly, over the years, UW geology and geophysics students and faculty have enjoyed and excelled at rock climbing and mountaineering.
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80 mph speed record for glacier fracture helps reveal the physics of ice sheet collapse
There’s enough water frozen in Greenland and Antarctic glaciers that if they melted, global seas would rise by many feet. What will happen to these glaciers over the coming decades is the biggest unknown in the future of rising seas, partly because glacier fracture physics is not yet fully understood.
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ESS Professor Fang-Zhen Teng elected as a Geochemistry Fellow
Prof. Fang-Zhen Teng of the Department of Earth and Space Sciences was recently elected as a Geochemical Fellow of the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry. This international award, established in 1996, is bestowed upon outstanding scientists who have, over some years, made a major contribution to the field of geochemistry.
Read moreResearchers utilize fiber optics to detect Cook Inlet's seismic activity
Brad Lipovsky, assistant professor in ESS, and a team of scientists are conducting research with Cook Inlet’s fiber optic cables to measure seismic activity. “We can observe marine mammals that make acoustic vocalizations, we can also observe the seismic waves of earthquakes that pass through the area,” Lipovsky said.
Read more at the Public Radio for Central Kenai PeninsulaQ&A: How 'slow slip' earthquakes may be driven by deep hydraulic fracturing
The Cascadia Subduction Zone is a massive geologic fault that last ruptured in January 1700. But while this fault has stayed quiet for centuries, it regularly generates small tremors that accompany gradual, nondisruptive movement along the fault.
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