The Daily UW highlights ESS 130th Anniversary
ESS Professor Emerita Jody Bourgeois and Assistant Professor Akshay Mehra are quoted.
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Using a fiber optic cable and machine learning to track glacial melt
Understanding how glaciers melt is key to understanding environmental change, water security, and sea level rise. A new study, led by ESS graduate student John-Morgan Manos, uses Distributed Acoustic Sensing to train a machine learning model to predict glacier runoff.
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The Memory of Darkness, Light and Ice film features work of ESS faculty and alum
A new film, The Memory of Darkness, Light, and Ice, features the work of a group of international collaborators, including Eric Steig and Andrew Schauer, and ESS Alum Paul Bierman. The film tells the remarkable story of the first ice core, drilled in Greenland at the Camp Century military base, and the new discoveries being made on ancient sediment that was recovered from the bottom of the ice, but never analyzed until now.
Read moreRocky planets: A new target in the search for extraterrestrial life
Assistant Professor Joshua Krissansen-Totton is quoted.
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Rocky planets orbiting small stars could have stable atmospheres needed to support life
A UW-led study recently published in Nature Communications finds that certain rocky planets orbiting a small star 40 light years away may have stable atmospheres needed to support life. Lead author and ESS assistant professor Joshua Krissansen-Totton is quoted.
Read more at UW NewsWhat do this year's earthquakes mean for the Pacific Northwest?
Researchers at the United States Geological Survey and Pacific Northwest Seismic Network are looking into recent spikes in seismic activity across the Pacific Northwest. While USGS and PNSN seismologists are not alarmed, they do stress the importance of being ready. ESS Professor and PNSN Director Harold Tobin is quoted.
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Life could exist on Mars in shallow meltwater pools below icy surface, study suggests
A new study from researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, UW, and other universities suggests microbes could find a potential home beneath layers of ice known to exist on Mars' surface. Lead author Aditya Khuller will join the UW Applied Physics Laboratory as a senior research scientist in November. ESS professor emeritus and co-author Steve Warren is quoted.
Read more at UW NewsCollege 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!
Read morePNW 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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