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• Alaska Earthquake Provides Valuable Insight for Pacific Northwest Scientists | KING 5
  A powerful earthquake off Alaska's southern coast jolted coastal communities and forced residents to briefly scramble for higher ground over fears of a tsunami. Paul Bodin, UW ... - Read More

• 7 University of Washington Researchers Elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences in 2022. Congratulations to Prof. Dave Montgomery
  

  Seven scientists and engineers at the University of Washington have been elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences, according to an Read More

• ESS Faculty Steig and Fudge to Lead Major New Drilling Project in Antarctica
  NSF-funding research led by Eric Steig and TJ Fudge at UW, with Heidi Roop at U. Minnesota, Murat Aydin at UC Irvine, Mark Twickler and Joe Souney at UNH, will drill for ice ... - Read More

• Early Life Was Pumping out Oxygen, but the Earth's Mantle Was Absorbing It | Universe Today
  The Great Oxidation Event took place 2.4 billion years ago. That's when photosynthetic bacteria flooded the atmosphere with oxygen, banishing early, non-oxygen using lifeforms to ... - Read More

• The College of the Environment Has Created a CoEnv COVID-19 Resources Page.
  The College of the Environment has created a Read More

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  Oxygen first accumulated in the Earth's atmosphere about 2.4 billion years ago, during the Great Oxidation Event. A long-standing puzzle has been that geologic clues suggest ... - Read More

• Analysis: It's Time to Rethink the Disrupted US Food System from the Ground Up | The Conversation
  "The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic shutdowns have severely disrupted and spotlighted weaknesses in the U.S. food system. Farmers, food distributors and government ... - 快帆翻国外加速软伀

• NSF Plots a Course for the Next Decade of Earth Sciences Research
  ESS faculty Kate Huntington is highlighted today for her leadership on the decadal vision for Earth Sciences at NSF, produced by the National Academies. A new report released ... - Read More

• How Routine Monitors Weather the Pandemic Storm | Eos
  Much of routine monitoring can be done remotely these days, but networks aren't completely immune to COVID-19's society-halting symptoms. Harold Tobin, director of the UW-based ... - 免费翻国外墙的app

• Scientist Killed in Mount St. Helens Eruption Remembered 40 Years After Deadly Blast | KING 5
  David Johnston, a scientist studying Mount St. Helens when it erupted in 1980, was killed in the blast. His body was never recovered. Steve Malone, emeritus research professor of ... - Read More

• A Plate Boundary Emerges Between India and Australia | Eos
  Tectonic plates blanket the Earth like a patchwork quilt. Now, researchers think they've found a new plate boundary -- a line of stitching in that tectonic quilt -- in the ... - Read More

• 2.9 Earthquake out of Mead, WA Felt Across the Inland Northwest on Friday Afternoon | KREM
  A 2.9 magnitude earthquake hit Mead, Washington around 2:30 p.m. on Friday according to the United States Geological Survey. Paul Bodin, UW research professor of Earth and space ... - Read More

• 40 Years After Mount St. Helens Eruption, Pandemic Sparks Parallels | Geekwire
  Seismologist Steve Malone, emeritus research professor of Earth and space sciences at the UW, feels a magnitude-5.1 rumble of deja vu whenever he hears the latest developments in ... - Read More

• 1,000-year-old Bones Represent Oldest Tsunami Victims in East Africa | National Geographic
  A thousand years ago, a thriving early Swahili village bustled on the banks of Tanzania's Pangani River a few miles inland from the Inidan Ocean. Residents built their houses out ... - Read More

• Seismologists to Host Virtual Event on 40th Anniversary of Mount St. Helens Eruption
  

• Faculty/staff Honors: Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies, Social Equity Award, Swedish Physical Geography Honor (Dave Montgomery), New Cascade Public Media Director
  

  Recent honors to University of Washington faculty and staff have come from the Association of Asian Studies, the American Society of Public Administration, the Swedish Society ... - Read More

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