Two 91探花 professors argue in a Science perspectives article that ecosystem managers must learn to make decisions based on an uncertain future.
Environment
A 91探花atmospheric scientist is leading a six-week survey of eastern U.S. skies to see how winter conditions affect air quality.
We’ve long known that humans and our cities affect the ecosystem and even drive some evolutionary change. What’s new is that these evolutionary changes are happening more quickly than previously thought, and have potential impacts not in the distant future 鈥� but now.
Some of the oldest rocks on the planet push back scientific estimates of when life could have covered the Earth by 1 billion years.
The first early earthquake warning system for the region has begun testing with a small group of users at businesses and public agencies in Washington, Oregon and British Columbia.
A robot developed at the 91探花 will deploy instruments to gather information in unprecedented detail about how marine life interacts with underwater equipment used to harvest wave and tidal energy.
On the anniversary of a massive earthquake off our region’s coast, 91探花researchers are working on everything from tsunami evacuation structures to updated seismic hazard maps.
A 91探花researcher is chief scientist this month on a project to drill the first deep ice core at the South Pole, to understand the climate history in that section of Antarctica.
An international team led by the 91探花 has discovered a way to determine the tree cover and density of trees, shrubs and bushes in locations over time based on clues in the cells of plant fossils preserved in rocks and soil.
91探花 scientists published the first large-scale survey of impurities in North American snow. An almost 10,000-mile road trip showed that disturbed soil often mattered as much as air pollution for the whiteness of the snow.
Scientists with the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network will install instruments this Thursday to provide real-time monitoring of the stadium’s movement during the 2015 NFL playoffs. It’s a valuable test of their newest seismic technology.
Many of the worst West Coast winter floods involve heavy rains and melting snow, and 91探花hydrology experts are using the physics of these events to better predict the risks.
Water off Washington’s coast is warming a third of a mile down, where seafloor methane shifts from a frozen solid to a gas. Calculations suggest ocean warming is already releasing significant methane offshore of Alaska to California.
Surprisingly, the diversity of birds in suburban areas can be greater than in forested areas, according to John Marzluff’s new book “Welcome to Subirdia.”
A new tool developed at the 91探花displays real-time ocean acidification data for the open ocean and protected bays, helping shellfish growers and scientists see changes in water chemistry.
Scientists using a microbe that occurs naturally in eastern cottonwood trees have boosted the ability of willow and lawn grass to withstand the withering effects of the nasty industrial pollutant phenanthrene.
Instead of carbon dioxide, or CO2, creating a blanket that slowly warms the planet, long-term warming happens because a darker surface and more moist air can absorb more of the incoming rays.
Undergraduates this week were among the first people to try the latest in seafloor mapping technology — and use it to image a shipwreck on Seattle’s urban lake.
Within weeks of publishing surprising new insights about how zebrafish get their stripes, 91探花 researchers now explain how to “erase” them.
More diverse voices could help break a deadlock gripping the conservation community, say 238 co-signatories 鈥� including a dozen from the 91探花.
You can’t predict the future, but you can prepare for it — that’s the thinking behind architect (and architecture graduate student and 91探花staff member) Brian Rich and his principles of “future proofing” existing and historical buildings.
Freshwater fish with bellies full of shrews 鈥� one trout a few years back was found to have eaten 19 鈥� aren’t as random as scientists have thought.
91探花scientists worked with managers of federal parks and forests to come up with a strategy to address warmer temperatures, increased wildfires and more flooding in the North Cascades region.
A state-of-the-art imaging machine is coming to the 91探花 for use by researchers in a variety of disciplines.
The 91探花has an $8 million, four-year contract to develop technologies that can harness waves, tides and currents to power naval facilities worldwide.
Theannual one-day Sustainability Summit this year is the centerpiece of a new weeklong Sustainable 91探花Festival.
Better integration of citizen science into professional science is a growing consideration at the 91探花and elsewhere.
Tiny animals migrating from the ocean’s surface to the sunless depths helps shape our oceans. During the daylight hours below the surface the animals release ammonia, the equivalent of our urine, that plays a significant role in marine chemistry, particularly in low-oxygen zones.
Using evolutionary biology is one way to try to outwit evolution where it is happening too quickly and to perhaps find accommodations when evolution occurs too slowly.
Using a songbird as a model, scientists have described a brain pathway that replaces cells that have been lost naturally and not because of injury.
91探花students have had a unique experience off the coast of Washington and Oregon helping scientists and engineers complete construction of the world鈥檚 largest deep-ocean observatory.
Floating sensors built at the 91探花will be central to a new $21 million effort to learn how the ocean surrounding Antarctica influences climate.
The number of California blue whales has rebounded to near historical levels and, while the number of blue whales struck by ships is likely above allowable U.S. limits, such strikes do not immediately threaten that recovery.
Better understanding of how a deadly algae grows offshore and gets carried to Pacific Northwest beaches has led to a computer model that can predict when the unseen threat will hit local beaches.
One of Arizona’s largest watersheds 鈥� home to many native species of fish already threatened by extinction 鈥� is providing a grim snapshot of what could happen to watersheds and fish in arid areas around the world as climate warming occurs.
Observations show that the heat absent from the Earth’s surface is plunging deep in the north and south Atlantic Ocean, and is part of a slow, naturally recurring cycle.
A new study used seabed samples collected by 91探花graduate students in the late 1960s to question current interpretations of earthquake frequency along the West Coast.
Historic observations and NASA airborne data provide a decades-long record showing that the snowpack on Arctic sea ice is thinning.
Piles of ancient shells provide the first reliable long-term record for the powerful driver of year-to-year climate changes. Results show that the El Ni帽os 10,000 years ago were as strong and frequent as they are today.
Predictions that the lowest-oxygen environments in the ocean will get worse may not come to pass. 91探花research shows climate change, by weakening the trade winds, will shrink these extremely low-oxygen waters.