David Schmidt selected as next ESS Chair

Professor David Schmidt will take on the role of Chair of the Department of Earth and Space Sciences this summer (July 1st, 2024).
Professor Schmidt earned his Ph.D. in Geophysics from Berkeley in 2002 and joined ESS as Associate Professor in 2013. 

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UW Geologist connects landslide research with communities in high-risk regions

Alison Duvall, University of Washington associate professor of Earth and Space Sciences, is working to understand how climate and climate change might affect the frequency, severity and downstream impacts of landslides, and bring what she learns to community partners working to reduce risk in vulnerable places. 

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ESS Graduate Students Awarded AGU Outstanding Student Presentation Awards

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) recently announced the 2023 Outstanding Student Presentation Award (OSPA) recipients. Three ESS graduate students, Anna Ledeczi, Madeleine Lucas, and Jensen DeGrande, are awardees.

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Could a WA volcano erupt again in our lifetime? What would happen?

ESS Professor Emeritus George Bergantz is interviewed about Cascade volcano hazards.

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Earth and Space Sciences' Cailey Condit awarded 2024 NSF CAREER Award

Cailey Condit, a UW Assistant Professor and petrologist in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences was recently awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, the most prestigious award presented by NSF to support junior faculty. 

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UW's Eric Steig awarded 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship

ESS Professor and Chair Eric Steig, a University of Washington glaciologist and geochemist, recently was awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, an honor given to 188 “culture creators” working across 52 disciplines. 

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UW Environment disciplines rank among top 10 in the world

Out of 16,400 university programs at 1,500 institutions in 96 locations around the world, UW has five subjects in the top 10 in 2024, including Geology (No. 8), Earth & Marine Sciences (No. 

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ESS Professor Eric Steig Named 2024 Guggenheim Fellow

The Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced on Thursday April 11 their appointment of 188 Guggenheim Fellowships to a distinguished and diverse group of culture-creators working across 52 disciplines. ESS Professor and current chair, Eric Steig, was one of just two fellows in the field of Earth Science.

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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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