January 30, 2003
Get the lead out: Technique dampens effect of dangerous absorption
Adding composted biosolids rich with iron, manganese and organic matter to a lead-contaminated home garden in Baltimore appears to bind up the lead so it is less likely to be absorbed by the bodies of children who dirty their hands playing outside or are tempted to taste those delicious mud pies they “baked” in the backyard.
January 16, 2003
Mathematician’s theories hold promise for fisheries management
The key to managing fisheries so populations are stable and healthy may lie in the theories of an 18th century Presbyterian minister and amateur mathematician.
January 13, 2003
Expert seeks ways to foster development without depleting resources
“Science and Technology for Sustainability,” a free, public lecture by Harvard University’s William Clark, will focus on linking research to policy by, for instance, moving from arguments over statistics and reports generated by hundreds of different businesses, non-profits and government agencies to debates based on mutually agreed-on environmental data.
‘The end of the world’ has already begun, UW scientists say
In its 4.5 billion years, Earth has evolved from its hot, violent birth to the celebrated watery blue planet that stands out in pictures from space. But in a new book, two noted University of Washington astrobiologists say the planet already has begun the long process of devolving into a burned-out cinder, eventually to be swallowed by the sun.
January 9, 2003
Evidence found that parts of Antarctic ice sheets are melting
Rocks deposited by glaciers on mountain ranges in West Antarctica have given scientists the most direct evidence yet that parts of the ice sheet are on a long-term, natural trajectory of melting.
January 2, 2003
Hitchhiking rocks provide details of glacial melting in West Antarctic
Rocks deposited by glaciers on mountain ranges in West Antarctica have given scientists the most direct evidence yet that parts of the ice sheet are on a long-term, natural trajectory of melting.
December 23, 2002
UW Educational Outreach Web site, registration available following last week’s fire
The main University of Washington Educational Outreach building at 5001 25th Ave. N.E., near University Village, has been declared a total loss after an early-morning fire Dec. 19. Damage is estimated at $1 million.
December 12, 2002
Different kind of venting provides alternatives for finding life elsewhere
It was two years ago this month that scientists surveying the seafloor in the mid-Atlantic were startled to come upon a field of hydrothermal vents with pale “chimneys” the height of skyscrapers, far taller than any seen before, leading scientists to believe they were looking at a field unlike any previously discovered.
October 31, 2002
Overfishing may diminish genetic diversity even when millions of fish remain
Populations of marine fish may lose genetic diversity even if fishing stops while there are still several million individuals — a number previously assumed to be enough to preserve a diverse gene pool.
October 3, 2002
Area teacher joins expedition to Arctic
Educational mission will be documented on the Internet
September 23, 2002
Economists weigh if housing will remain as bright spot for forest sector
Orawin Velz, senior economist with Fannie Mae in Washington, D.C., will give the keynote address and John Mitchell, western regional economist with U.S. Bancorp out of Portland, is the luncheon speaker Thursday, the first day of an international forest-products markets conference sponsored by the University of Washington’s Center for International Trade in Forest Products.
August 22, 2002
Area teacher joins expedition to Arctic
Log on for Lake Stevens High School teacher Gail Grimes’ reports as the UW’s Rebecca Woodgate leads an expedition on the U.
August 20, 2002
Local teacher documenting expedition bound for crossroads of the Arctic
Log on starting Aug. 21 for Lake Stevens High School teacher Gail Grimes’ reports as University of Washington’s Rebecca Woodgate leads an expedition on the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star to a region of the Arctic where Atlantic and Pacific ocean waters interact in ways that could help explain the warming of the Arctic Ocean and thinning of the ice pack.
July 29, 2002
Conference considers ultrasound for cancer treatment, noninvasive surgery
In what is only the second meeting of its kind, the first conducted in the United States, more than 200 researchers and students are expected in Seattle for presentations Tuesday through Aug. 1 as part of an international symposium on therapeutic ultrasound. Presentations will be conducted at the Washington Athletic Club.
July 1, 2002
Donor tiles paving way for better service to gardeners at UW
The University of Washington’s Center For Urban Horticulture has spent the past year re-creating and reconnecting — work that’s far from done even many months after the May 21, 2001, arson attack damaged the center’s main building, rendering most if it beyond repair.
June 6, 2002
Ocean policy experts to meet in Seattle
Sixteen of the nation’s top ocean-policy experts, scheduled to meet in Seattle June 13 and 14, want to hear what Pacific Northwest residents consider to be the most pressing coastal and ocean issues facing the region and the nation.
May 30, 2002
Urban Horticulture struggles to rebuild
One year after a devastating arson fire, the Center for Urban Horticulture thanks its supporters even while it struggles to recover what was lost.
May 29, 2002
Smell like rotting animal flesh filling UW botany greenhouse again
An Amorphophallus titanum, also known as a corpse flower in its native Sumatra and elsewhere because of its foul odor, began blooming late Wednesday afternoon in the greenhouse operated by the University of Washington’s botany department.
May 23, 2002
Harvard expert to help launch climate change program
Well-known speaker will help as the institution launches a strong program geared toward the study of Earth’s climate change.
May 21, 2002
Lecture by Harvard expert marks launch of new UW climate program
Work on core curriculum is done, the first class of graduate students has been accepted and one of the world’s top experts on global climate change, Harvard University professor James McCarthy, will present a free, public lecture here May 30 as the University of Washington launches its Program on Climate Change.
May 16, 2002
Take a trip aboard UW’s research vessel
Daily journal entries and the ability to ask questions online allow anyone interested to go along on the research vessel Thomas G. Thompson as it maps the seafloor off the Washington coast.
Researchers pull project from frigid North Pole waters
A 1.6-mile long cable and 3,500 pounds of instruments were retrieved from a mooring that was anchored to the seafloor at the North Pole for a full year — eight times longer than the only previous mooring.
May 14, 2002
Special seminar: Rural landowners laboring to understand, comply with Forest-Fish rules
the University of Washington’s College of Forest Resources is bringing together representatives of four organizations that have been trying to help rural landowners understand and meet requirements of the new Forest and Fish Law.
Teachers from across Washington state join UW sea-going expedition
Log on starting Wednesday to join researchers and five public-school teachers on an oceanographic expedition aboard the University of Washington’s research vessel the Thomas G. Thompson as it works off our coast.
April 29, 2002
Thousands of youngsters to visit UW’s Arbor Day Fair starting May 1
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More than 2,200 students in the first-, second- and third-grades and their teachers have reserved spots at this year’s Arbor Day Fair sponsored by the University of Washington’s College of Forest Resources and its alumni association.
April 25, 2002
Squid gets education instead of dinner
More than 12 feet 6 inches long, it was caught in the Gulf of Alaska, frozen and sent by plane to Seattle where Ted Pietsch, professor of aquatic and fisheries sciences, picked it up Friday.
April 18, 2002
Wildflower seed mixes include some wicked bloomers
The seed packets have labels with romantic-sounding names such as meadow mixture and wedding wildflowers, while others tout backyard biodiversity and make reference to Earth Day.
Wildflower seed mixes full of weeds
The seed packets have labels with romantic-sounding names such as meadow mixture and wedding wildflowers, while others tout backyard biodiversity and make reference to Earth Day.
April 11, 2002
Tropical forests ‘exhale’ more CO2 than expected
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April 10, 2002
Tropical streams, rivers ‘exhaling’ millions of tons more CO2 than thought
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March 14, 2002
New molecular tools make study of tiny phytoplankton more possible
It’s the most prolific plant in the world’s oceans, explains assistant professor Ginger Armbrust.
Chum salmon returning to Big Beef Creek
The juvenile salmon released last week from the UW’s Big Beef Creek Fish Research Station are offspring of summer chum that returned 900-strong last year to the stream.
March 7, 2002
Summer chum return to Big Beef Creek in numbers not seen since ’70s
For the first time in decades hundreds of summer chum returned to Big Beef Creek Fish Research Station last fall. This follows five years of work to re-establish the run, an effort involving the UW, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the citizens of the Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group.
UW project measures ‘internal tide’ in Hawaii
Along the 1,600-mile-long Hawaiian Ridge, the moon’s inexorable pull is creating waves that break in the hidden depths of the ocean just as the surf does on the world-famous beaches of Hawaii, Oahu and Kauai.
February 25, 2002
Alaskan waters growing hospitable to sharks while seals and sea lions decline
University of Washington professor of fisheries and aquatic sciences Vince Gallucci has studied shark population dynamics for more than a decade. During the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Boston earlier this month, Gallucci presented findings during the session “Not Enough Sea Lions, Too Many Sharks: Global Warming Signal?”
February 21, 2002
Bruce Bare named dean of College of Forest Resources
Longtime UW Professor Bruce Bare, an expert on the economics, management and sustainable use of forestlands, has been named dean of the College of Forest Resources by President Richard L.
UW scientists looking for answers as shark population rises
Salmon shark fins cut the surface of the water.
February 20, 2002
Oceans to Stars Lecture Series: Molecular explorations reveal secrets of ocean life
The quest to predict toxic-algae outbreaks, estimate how much of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide is being absorbed by the oceans and gain other insights into the lives of phytoplankton — microscopic plants that generate about half the oxygen we breathe — are subjects of a free, public lecture, “Molecular Explorations of the Oceans: New Ways to Study Marine Ecosystems,” by University of Washington oceanographer Virginia Armbrust.
Hawaiian Ridge HOME to efforts to understand deep-ocean mixing
The first-ever direct measurements of the energy flux of the “internal” tide along the Hawaiian Ridge were reported last week by University of Washington researchers at the American Geophysical Union and American Society of Limnology’s Ocean Sciences meeting
February 15, 2002
Dean Bruce Bare and College of Forest Resources turning to concepts of environmental and resource sustainability
University of Washington President Richard L. McCormick has named long-time UW Professor Bruce Bare, an expert on the economics, management and sustainable use of forestlands, dean of the College of Forest Resources.
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