College of the Environment 2024-25 Dean's Office Scholarships awarded to 8 ESS students

Five ESS undergraduate students and three graduate students have been awarded scholarship funding for the 2024-25 College of the Environment Dean's Office scholarships. Please join us in congratulating these accomplished ESS students!

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PNW seismic monitoring expanding to volcanoes and underwater

Scientists say the more stations there are, the better the preparedness and early warning for earthquakes. PNSN research engineer Doug Gibbons is featured.

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FieldSound Season 3, Episode 3: Astrobiology with Jodi Young and Fabian Klenner

In this episode of FieldSound, we meet two researchers who work in vastly different systems, but whose paths cross in the interdisciplinary field of astrobiology. ESS postdoctoral researcher Fabian Klenner is interviewed.

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Is an uptick of rumblings under Mount Adams cause for seismic concern?

Mount Adams, a stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc, is the second-highest mountain in Washington state. The last time it erupted was more than 1,000 years ago, but it's been making some noise lately. To find out more about these rumblings, KUOW spoke to UW ESS professor and PNSN director Harold Tobin.

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'N Yo' Seismic Network: Marshawn Lynch Shakes the PNSN!

On October 10, 2024, Amazon Prime featured Marshawn’s visit to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network Seismology Lab during its Thursday Night Football pregame show before the Seattle Seahawks took on the San Francisco 49ers.

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ESS Celebrates 130 Years at the Burke Museum

On September 20, over 300 members of the UW Earth & Space Sciences community, including over 70 alumni, came together at the Burke Museum to celebrate the Department's 130th Anniversary.

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Monitoring at Mount Adams to increase after spike in earthquake activity

Harold Tobin, ESS Professor and director of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, is quoted.

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Explaining dramatic planetwide changes after world's last 'Snowball Earth' event

Some of the most dramatic climatic events in our planet’s history are “Snowball Earth” events that happened hundreds of millions of years ago, when almost the entire planet was encased in ice up to 0.6 miles (1 kilometer) thick. ESS PhD student Trent Thomas is lead author on a new study recently published in Nature Communications.

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Tacoma and Pierce County prep for 9.0 earthquake and tsunami

ESS and PNSN Research Professor Paul Bodin is quoted.

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Gerard Roe to give the John F. Nye lecture in glaciology at AGU

We are pleased to announce that Professor Gerard Roe has been awarded the John F. Nye Lectureship by the American Geophysical Union. Gerard will give the Nye Lecture at the 2024 AGU Fall Meeting in Washington, D.C. in December.  

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