December 14, 2006
Microbe fixes nitrogen at a blistering 92 C, may offer clues to evolution of nitrogen fixation
A heat-loving archaeon capable of fixing nitrogen at a surprisingly hot 92 degrees Celsius, or 198 Fahrenheit, may represent Earth’s earliest lineages of organisms capable of nitrogen fixation, perhaps even preceding the kinds of bacteria today’s plants and animals rely on to fix nitrogen.
December 7, 2006
Creation of new seafloor documented as never before
Seismometers in the right place at the right time detected the growing swarm of tiny undersea earthquakes that culminated in a volcanic eruption last January off the coast of Mexico.
November 30, 2006
Fish to elephants: Transferred technique shows patrols reduce poaching
A technique used since the 1930s to estimate the abundance of fish has shown for the first time that enforcement patrols are effective at reducing poaching of elephants, African buffaloes and black rhinos in the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania.
November 24, 2006
Serengeti patrols cut poaching of buffalo, elephants, rhinos
A technique used since the 1930s to estimate the abundance of fish has shown for the first time that enforcement patrols are effective at reducing poaching of elephants, African buffaloes and black rhinos in the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania.
Resilient form of plant carbon gives new meaning to term ‘older than dirt’
A particularly resilient type of carbon from the first plants to regrow after the last ice age – and that same type of carbon from all the plants since – appears to have been accumulating for 11,000 years in the forests of British Columbia, Canada.
November 17, 2006
$1.5 million to advance promise of woody biomass for fuel in Washington
With a potentially huge supply of woody material thinned from Washington forests, the state’s pulp and paper mills could become the “biorefining” backbone for turning woody plant material into fuel and other products, a University of Washington professor says.
November 16, 2006
From woody material to fuel: $1.5 million Denman chair leads way to innovation
With a potentially huge supply of woody material thinned from Washington forests, the state’s pulp and paper mills could become the “biorefining” backbone for turning woody plant material into fuel and other products, a UW professor says.
November 7, 2006
UW experts available for background information on flooding, landslides
University of Washington faculty members are able to provide background on the ways local watersheds have been managed, the effects of land-use changes on watersheds or other information concerning flooding and landslides as the region continues to experience wet weather.
November 2, 2006
A sea change in Forestry as seven faculty retire, nine new ones arrive
A 730-mile road trip in mid-September found long-tenured College of Forest Resources profs rubbing shoulders with faculty so new some hadn’t fully unpacked since moving to Seattle.
UW students on the case (and on the ship) researching problems in Puget Sound
While the Seattle Post-Intelligencer was running a six-part series on problems plaguing Puget Sound, UW undergraduates, graduate students and faculty were at work on board the UW’s 274-foot research vessel gathering information needed to help puzzle out some of the sound’s most pressing problems.
Backgrounder: Dispelling fears of a worldwide fisheries crisis
NOTE: Last week newspapers trumpeted a report in Science magazine that predicted the collapse of all seafood fisheries by 2048.
October 27, 2006
Inaugural vendor fair to encourage use of minority- and women-owned businesses
Twenty-five small businesses that supply goods and services to the University of Washington will be showcased in a vendor fair Nov.
October 5, 2006
UW prof leads board advising NOAA on critical science issues
David Fluharty, a University of Washington marine affairs expert, has been named to chair the science advisory board of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the federal agency that manages and conducts research about the nation’s ocean and atmospheric resources.
September 15, 2006
Pioneering work assessing sustainable fisheries earns international award
A University of Washington professor who says that solving today’s fisheries problems will best be accomplished by applying lessons learned in the many successful fisheries in the world is one of three winners of this year’s Volvo Environment Prize, announced in Sweden this week.
August 29, 2006
Coastal ocean observatory extends miles up Columbia River
The Columbia River is the source of three quarters of the water pouring into the Pacific Ocean from the West Coast.
August 17, 2006
Streamer line innovation saves seabirds from that sinking feeling
Globally each year, hundreds of thousands of seabirds looking for a free lunch end up snagged on baited hooks as commercial longline vessels set their gear.
Memorial Friday, Sept. 8, for James Palais
James Palais, considered a key figure in establishing the Korean studies field in the United States, will be honored at a memorial service from 3 to 5 p.
June 6, 2006
Mussel strain: Same species responds differently to same warming, depending on location
Based on current trends for both air and water temperatures, by 2100 the body temperatures of California mussels — found along thousands of miles of coast in the northeast Pacific Ocean and not just in California — could increase between about 2 degrees F and 6.
May 25, 2006
Where wildlife and urban life meet
The bear that found itself in the University District earlier this week was a rarity, but bears in Seattle’s outer suburbs aren’t uncommon this time of year as they scavenge for springtime food in what once was their habitat, Fish and Wildlife Department’s Kim Chandler told the The Seattle Times.
May 18, 2006
State ocean policy: UW grad students help out
Washington’s first formal ocean policy, the blueprint for which is due on the gover-nor’s desk by the end of the year, aims to prepare for looming changes along the shores of a state renowned for its natural resources.
May 11, 2006
Holly’s folly: New Arboretum design isolates invasive species while giving others room to grow
A new home for the hollies — the design for which includes both elegant and humorous elements — is being planned at the Washington Park Arboretum, a part of the University of Washington Botanic Gardens.
May 8, 2006
Sixth expedition to North Pole installs mooring in 2 ½ miles of ocean
This year’s University of Washington-led North Pole Environmental Observatory program, which ran April 10 through early May, was followed immediately by another UW-led expedition concerning what’s called the freshwater switchyard of the Arctic Ocean, which is underway until about May 17.
April 20, 2006
The North Pole Was Here: New York Times reporter writes about chilling in the arctic
“They call their project the North Pole Environmental Observatory, but that name gives the impression that it’s some exotic domed facility,” writes New York Times reporter Andrew Revkin.
April 19, 2006
Media Alert: Arbor Day, Earth Day photo opportunities
Among the events coinciding with Earth Day this year are the College of Forest Resources’ annual Arbor Day Fair for area first- and second-graders, and a day of trail building and clean up with volunteers from the Student Conservation Association at the Washington Park Arboretum, a part of the UW Botanic Gardens.
April 13, 2006
Speaker: We may already have technology to beat global warming
Stabilizing the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide at tolerable levels may be possible using cost-effective technology that already exists.
April 11, 2006
Current understanding, emerging issues of coastal rivers is topic Wednesday
With few of the Pacific Northwest’s 200 coastal rivers remaining unaltered by human development, watershed scientists are meeting this week to consider emerging policy issues and scientific challenges they foresee in the decade ahead.
March 23, 2006
Greenland’s glaciers pick up pace in surge toward the sea
With warming temperatures as the possible underlying cause, scientists wonder what is pushing Greenland’s glaciers out to sea as much as 50 percent quicker than before.
March 9, 2006
Salmon leave no stone unturned, affect whole ecosystem in process
Like an armada of small rototillers, female salmon can industriously churn up entire stream beds from end to end, sometimes more than once, using just their tails.
UW ship to the rescue: Fuel filters help boaters in distress
Still hundreds of miles from Hawaii, the Wright family was getting into trouble at sea after their fuel filters were fouled by poorly refined diesel they’d taken on in the Marquesas Islands.
Leave it to salmon to leave no stone unturned
Like an armada of small rototillers, female salmon can industriously churn up entire stream beds from end to end, sometimes more than once, using just their tails.
February 24, 2006
Devices tease out individual sounds from underwater racket
While biologists sort out what levels of noise go unnoticed, are annoying or cause harm to marine mammals, physical oceanographer Jeff Nystuen is giving scientists and managers a way to sift through and identify the sounds present in various marine ecosystems.
February 23, 2006
Devices tease out individual sounds from underwater racket
While biologists sort out what levels of noise go unnoticed, are annoying or cause harm to marine mammals, physical oceanographer Jeff Nystuen is giving scientists and ecosystem managers a way to sift through and identify the sounds present in various marine ecosystems.
Pacific Science Center in grips of polar blast March 2-5
With the extent of Arctic ice reaching record-breaking lows in recent seasons and Antarctic ice sheets losing dramatic, miles-wide pieces of ice, the world’s attention has been focused on changes underway at both ends of the Earth.
February 16, 2006
Sea Grant chooses veteran of ‘other Washington’
The woman who helped shape marine policy at the national level and spoke before Congress and federal ocean agencies on behalf of 83 of the nation’s largest oceanographic institutions has joined the UW as director of the Washington Sea Grant Program.
Valuable species not fished out, study shows
When fishing boats return with catches of increasingly less-valuable fish, the commonly held notion is that the more valuable species have been fished out.
February 14, 2006
Shopping list gets longer — not less choosy — in some of world’s largest fisheries
When fishing boats return with catches of increasingly less-valuable fish, the commonly held notion is that the more valuable species have been fished out.
February 8, 2006
Silver-LEED winning Merrill Hall exemplifies energy-conservation efforts
Smart lighting choices and a solar panel provided by Seattle City Light are among the reasons the U.
February 2, 2006
Small tale: Parasitic anglerfish takes size prize, prof says
The authors of a paper in last week’s Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Section B, who say their 7.
January 27, 2006
Flap over fishes: Who’s the smallest of them all?
The authors of a paper in this week’s Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Section B, who say their 7.
January 26, 2006
A senior thesis at sea: Oceanography students do research on Galapagos Islands
Senior Jennifer Glass was back in class Monday after returning from Ecuador where she had a chance to lead a group making the first detailed maps of a seafloor rift that’s part of the hot spot responsible for the formation of the Galapagos Islands.
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