News | Department of Earth and Space Sciences

Apr 29, 2024 | Awards and Honors

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.

Black and White close up of Eric Steig with snow in the background.

Apr 24, 2024 | Awards and Honors

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.

Apr 17, 2024 | Awards and Honors

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.

Apr 12, 2024 | Awards and Honors

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.

Apr 5, 2024 | In the News

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.

Apr 5, 2024

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.

Red streaks across the surface of the moon Europa with a black background.

Mar 25, 2024

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.

Three people hiking in front of a stream, with rocks and blue sky behind them, doing field work.

Mar 25, 2024

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.

Mar 19, 2024 | In the News

After 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.

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.