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Oso, 3 years on: Wrestling with lessons from deadly landslide, and how to protect people elsewhere | The Seattle Times
Monday, March 27, 2017
New research has documented a history of more than 200 other deep-seated landslides along a 15.5-mile stretch of the North Fork of the Stillaguamish that includes the Oso site. Sean LaHusen, a UW graduate student in Earth and space sciences who is involved in the research, is quoted. Read More -
Bombing Antarctica, flying into hurricanes, and drinking your own pee: Fantastic tales from the field | Popular Science
Monday, March 27, 2017
A roundup of stories from the coolest day jobs in the world. Nick Holschuh, a UW postdoctoral research in Earth and space sciences, is interviewed. Read More -
UW Scientists Use Lightning to Create Better Forecasts
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Profs. Robert Holzworth (ESS) , and Cliff Mass (AtmosSci) discuss a recent publication in which they used the UW/ESS managed WWLLN (World Wide Lightning Location Network) data to improve weather forecasting. Read More -
Balmy! Antarctica hit record-breaking 63 degrees F in 2015 | Live Science
Thursday, March 2, 2017
Temperatures on the Antarctic continent reached a record-breaking high of 63.5 degrees Fahrenheit in 2015, according to a new report. Eric Steig, professor of Earth and space sciences at the UW, is quoted. Read More -
'Strong' tremors recorded for the past week under Hood Canal | MyNorthwest.com
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
There's little doubt in local seismologists' minds that the numerous tremors recorded in the Puget Sound region over the past several days are related to a phenomenon that some say increases the risk of a major earthquake. Ken Creager, professor of Earth and space sciences at the UW, is quoted. Read More -
With drier conditions in the forecast, area could get a break from mudslides | The Seattle Times
Friday, February 17, 2017
This week's spate of mudslides blocking roads and railroad tracks might end soon, as drier conditions give soggy soil a chance to drain. David Montgomery, UW professor of Earth and space sciences, is quoted. Read More -
Large hidden lakes found draining below Antarctic glacier | NDTV
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Large hidden lakes beneath one of the planet's fastest-moving glaciers on the edge of West Antarctica are draining out at an unprecedented rate, a new study has found. Ben Smith, principal physicist at the UW's Applied Physics Laboratory, is quoted. Read More -
Hidden lakes drain below West Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier
Thursday, February 9, 2017
Thwaites Glacier on the edge of West Antarctica is one of the planet's fastest-moving glaciers. Research shows that it is sliding unstoppably into the ocean, mainly due to warmer seawater lapping at its underside. But the details of its collapse remain uncertain. Researchers at the University of Washington and the University of Edinburgh used data from the European Space Agency's CryoSat-2 to identify a sudden drainage of large pools below Thwaites Glacier, one of two fast-moving glaciers at the edge of the ice sheet. The study published Feb. 8 in The Cryosphere finds four interconnected lakes drained in the eight months from June 2013 and January 2014. Read More -
3.0 magnitude earthquake one of several that shook the San Juan Islands | Bellingham Herald
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
A small earthquake shook the San Juan Islands on Monday morning, one of a dozen tiny shakers within a few miles of each other, starting Sunday night and lasting into Monday afternoon. John Vidale, professor of Earth and space sciences at the UW, is quoted. Read More -
Complex life may have had a false start 2.3 billion years ago
Friday, January 20, 2017
A team at the UW did a study of Earth's oceans and found that they held suitable conditions for life at one point in time. This point occurred more than a billion years before the first fossils appeared. Michael Kipp, doctoral student in Earth and space sciences at the UW, is interviewed. Read More