Could deuterium be the key to finding aliens?
A new paper by UW ESS Professor David Catling and Assistant Professor Josh Krissansen-Totton, recently accepted in the Astrophysical Journal, explores how deuterium could play a key role in the search for extraterrestrial life.
Read moreTsunami researchers hunt for clues about the next big Pacific Northwest quake
ESS alum Carrie Garrison-Laney (UW Washington Sea Grant) is quoted and current ESS graduate student Bering Tse is mentioned in this Washington Post article on Cascadia paleotsunami research.
Read more at the Washington PostThree ESS faculty among recipients of College of the Environment new seed grants
Three ESS faculty, professor Fang-Zhen Teng, associate professor Marine Denolle, and professor David Montgomery are among recipients of the College of the Environment's Seed Grant Program designed to foster new cross-college collaborations that use a system-based approach to understand environmental challenges.
Read more at UW EnvironmentIs there hope for the James Webb Space Telescope and the TRAPPIST-1 planets after all?
A recent study published in Nature Communications led by ESS assistant professor Josh Krissansen-Totton is referenced in a video by popular science communicator Dr. Becky Smethurst, an astrophysicist at the University of Oxford.
Watch on YouTubeThe power of a logjam: A vision of the Northwest's rivers of old
ESS professor of geomorphology David Montgomery and alum Tim Abbe are quoted.
Read more at the Seattle TimesESS in the Northwest Geological Society
The Northwest Geological Society meets most months for dinner talks. The November meeting included congratulations the Society founder, Eric Cheney upon his 80th birthday, and a talk by Brian Atwater that excerpted correspondence recently found by Thomas Ott in archives held by the Quaternary Research Center.
Read moreNASA funds effort to study effects of the space environment on living organisms
NASA recently awarded $2.5M to establish a regional scientific consortium, BioS-ENDURES, based at the University of Washington that will use an interdisciplinary approach to explore how the space environment affects living things. ESS Associate Professor Drew Gorman-Lewis is part of the interdisciplinary team.
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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.
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