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Sarah Myhre talks to Yale Climate Connections about being a young climate scientist
Postdoc Sarah Myhre recently talked to Yale Climate Connections about being a young climate scientist studying climate change and its effect on her moral responsibilities.
Read more at Yale Climate ConnectionsBradley Markle helps relate temperature spikes in the Northern Hemisphere to Southern Ocean winds
A new study, recently published in Nature Geoscience by a group of UW researchers - Bradley Markle, Eric Steig, Cecilia Bitz, and T.J. Fudge - aims to show that "fierce winds circling Antarctica — an important lever on the global climate — shift quickly in response to Northern Hemisphere temperature spikes".
Read more at UW TodayStephen Riser and a team of UW researchers are helping to lead an effort to monitor the Southern Ocean
Stephen Riser, from the School of Oceanography, is a chief scientist of an expedition to better understand the Southern Ocean by dropping robotic floats around Antarctica to monitor carbon dioxide uptake. He and other UW researchers are currently two-thirds of the way through a month long voyage.
Read more at UW TodayUW Applied Physics Lab scientists--Steele, Stern and Schweiger--talk about their approach to sharing climate science in a lunch time conversation with Jerry Lange, Seattle Times.
"For years now, climate scientists have seen explaining their work as a way to help the public make good decisions in response to global warming — without politics."
Seattle Times article by Jerry LangeGerard Roe helps connect climate change to individual glacier retreats
Gerard Roe, of the Earth and Space Sciences department, recently published a paper on glacier retreat as evidence of regional climate change. Gerard says, "because of their decades-long response times, we found that glaciers are actually among the purest signals of climate change." This method uses a signal-to-noise ratio that relies on observational records for glacier length, local weather, and the basic size and shape of the glacier, but does not require detailed computer modeling. The technique could be used on any glacier that had enough observations.
Read more at UW NewsEric Steig was mentioned in The Washington Post
Eric Steig, of the Earth and Space Sciences department was mentioned in The Washington Post about the current destabilization of Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica.
Read more at The Washington PostPCC Graduate Twila Moon talks about mapping Greenland glaciers
Glaciers and ice sheets move in unique and hard to map patterns as observed by satellite images that help map the speed of flowing ice in Greenland, Antarctica and mountain ranges around the world. Twila Moon, a graduate of the PCC, talks about using this evidence to help map out glaciers in Greenland. With the new database, she can study the movements of more than 240 glaciers, which comprise nearly all of the outlets from the ice sheet.
Read more at The University of BristolTom Ackerman and Stephen Gardiner - Can a Philosopher and Scientist Co-teach a Class on Climate Engineering?
Tom Ackerman and Stephen Gardiner discuss the success and limitations of a social science and geoscience partnership with a co-taught course in Winter of 2015. The course aimed at trying to provide scientific and ethical foundations to students through climate engineering.
Read More at Climate Engineering AssessmentLuAnne Thompson on KUOW talking about being a climate scientist
LuAnne Thompson talked with Bill Radke of KUOW.org about "being a little braver" when it comes to climate science communication.
Listen at KUOW.orgHarry Stern discusses the future of Arctic Ocean shipping
Hannah Hickey interviews Harry Stern, a polar scientist at the University of Washington’s Applied Physics Laboratory who has been studying the Arctic Ocean for decades, about the fate of future shipping routes through the Arctic Ocean.
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