Researchers utilize fiber optics to detect Cook Inlet’s seismic activity
Brad Lipovsky, assistant professor in ESS, and a team of scientists are conducting research with Cook Inlet’s fiber optic cables to measure seismic activity. “We can observe marine mammals that make...
View ArticleESS Professor Fang-Zhen Teng elected as a Geochemistry Fellow
Prof. Fang-Zhen Teng of the Department of Earth and Space Sciences was recently elected as a Geochemical Fellow of the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry. This...
View Article80 mph speed record for glacier fracture helps reveal the physics of ice...
There’s enough water frozen in Greenland and Antarctic glaciers that if they melted, global seas would rise by many feet. What will happen to these glaciers over the coming decades is the biggest...
View ArticleESS 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.
View ArticleAfter 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.
View ArticleOpening 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...
View ArticleSigns 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...
View ArticleIn 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....
View ArticleEarthquake showed Taiwan was well prepared for a big one – more so than parts...
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...
View ArticleESS 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...
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