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• The Webb Telescope Can't Find Alien Life Until Researchers Agree on This Fundamental Component | Inverse
  Researchers have long debated what kind of chemistry might serve as a bonafide alien biosignature. Joshua Krissansen-Totton, assistant professor of Earth and space sciences at the ... - Read More

• How Earthquake Research Can Help Save the PNW from 'The Big One' | Axios Seattle
  A new research center in the Pacific Northwest aims to answer those questions and others, to help the region prepare for a possible magnitude 9 earthquake that is predicted to ... - Read More

• Five UW Faculty Members Elected As AGU Fellows, Plus More Honors
  

  The American Geophysical Union announced Sept. 13 that five University of Washington faculty members have been elected as ... - Read More

• New Effort to Study the Potential for a Big Earthquake in the PNW | KUOW
  The Cascadia Region Earthquake Science Center will be the first center of its kind in the nation, focused on earthquakes at subduction zones. Harold Tobin, director of the Pacific ... - Read More

• New Science Center Will Focus on the Cascadia Subduction Zone | KNKX
  Earth scientists at the UW are lead partners in a new effort to study potential for "The Big Rip" in the Northwest. The Cascadia Region Earthquake Science Center will be the first ... - Read More

• Dozens of Earthquakes Reported in Swarm off Vancouver Island | Bellingham Herald
  Four moderate earthquakes shook the Pacific Ocean floor off Vancouver Island on Sunday, part of a "swarm" of nearly three dozen tremors over the past week that Canadian ... - Read More

• Prepping for the 'Big One': $15M Going Toward Earthquake Research | MyNorthwest
  A new research center will focus on the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a fault stretching more than 620 miles from the northern edge of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, to Cape ... - Read More

• Could Western Washington See a Similar Earthquake to Morocco? | FOX 13
  An earthquake devastated Marrakech, Morocco over the weekend--and Western Washington is no stranger to these seismological events. Harold Tobin, director of the Pacific Northwest ... - Read More

• Feds Award $15M for New Cutting-edge Research Center to Study Pacific NW Earthquakes | GeekWire
  The National Science Foundation announced the creation of the Cascadia Region Earthquake Science Center. The $15 million facility will be based at the University of Oregon and the ... - Read More

• UW a Lead Partner on New NSF-funded Earthquake Research Center
  

  The University of Washington is a lead partner on a new multi-institution earthquake research center based at the University of Oregon that the National Science Foundation ... - Read More

• The Mineral Talc May Host Slow Earthquakes During Subduction in Mexico | AGU's EOS
  Newly published work from UW shows that chemical transformations during subduction play a central role in the mechanical behavior of the faults that accommodate motion between the ... - Read More

• Punch a Hole in a Planet | New Scientist - 'Dead Planets Society' Podcast
  In this episode of Dead Planets Society, the hosts embark on a boring journey -- as in, they literally contemplate trying to bore through a planet. Baptiste Journaux, research ... - Read More

• Earthquake Felt by Hundreds Near Fall City | Northwest News Radio
  An earthquake measured at 3.8 in magnitude woke a lot of people up at 3:17 a.m. The earthquake was felt by hundreds of people all across western Washington. Harold Tobin, director ... - Read More

• Did You Feel It? 3.9-magnitude Earthquake Shakes People Awake Near Fall City | KIRO 7
  A 3.9-magnitude earthquake awakened people near Fall City Tuesday morning, with several aftershocks afterward. The initial quake at 3:17 a.m. was felt by people in Fall City, ... - Read More

• Greenland Was Smaller (perhaps Much Smaller) About 400,000 Years Ago
  A new study in Science co-led by ESS alum Paul Bierman, along with ESS chair Eric Steig, provides the first definitive evidence of a smaller-than-present Greenland ice sheet ... - Read More

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