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Read more in UW TodayKristin Laidre awarded 2017 Pew Marine Fellowship
Kristin Laidre was awarded the 2017 Pew Marine Fellowship to study the effects of climate change on polar bears. Laidre's project entails working with researchers and agencies in four Arctic nations to compare data across all studied polar bear populations and compile the most comprehensive assessment to date of population status. Laidre plans to examine the potential this metric has for assessing population status.
Read more at UW TodayUW Glaciologists uncover truths about hidden lakes on West Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier
UW Glaciologists, Alexander Huth and Ian Joughin,and Noel Gourmele of the University of Edinburgh used data from the European Space Agency’s CryoSat-2 to study a sudden drainage of large pools below Thwaites Glacier. Thwaites Glacier is one of two fast-moving glaciers at the edge of the West Antarctic ice sheet. The recently published study in The Cryosphere shows four interconnected lakes that drained in eight months. The glacier sped up by about 10 percent during that time, showing that the glacier’s long-term movement is fairly oblivious to trickles at its underside.
Read more at The CryosphereUndergraduate, Eliza Dawson, won the Outstanding Student Paper Award from the AGU Fall Meeting in December
Eliza Dawson, an undergraduate of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, won the Outstanding Paper Award from the AGU Fall Meeting in December for her work relating changes in inter-hemispheric dust loads to variability of the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ).
Read more at AGUGCeCS Capstone Opportunity
Posted January 26, 2017 The Northwest Climate Science Center (NW CSC) has an opportunity for a graduate student to develop a GCeCS capstone project that will help them with their ongoing climate science communication efforts. The NW CSC provides climate science support to managers of our region’s natural resources. The UW office is looking for a student interested in helping improve their communication projects while also working on a capstone project.
Read moreIf I were going to blog ….or guidelines for grad students blogging about their capstone communication
Miriam Bertram, January 23, 2017 You’ve completed your capstone project; maybe you gave a series of presentations on “The Road to Paris: Climate Change Science and Policy” or developed a lab for a high school classroom. You’ve evaluated what your audience retained or learned, written your capstone report. Now those Program on Climate Change tyrants want you to write a blog.
Read moreDargan Frierson and Judy Twedt create "The Sound of Earth's Fever"
With NASA releasing the 2016 global temperature data, Dargan Frierson and Judy Twedt made quick work of the high temperatures. Using the global temperature data from 1880-2016, they created a song about the Earth's global temperature. Lower notes mean lower temperature, and higher notes are higher temperature. They chose notes from a musical scale and added drums just for effect. Dargan and Judy state that they "pause in 1977, a critical year for climate" because "scientists were confident at this point that heat-trapping gases from fossil fuels were the main way humans were influencing the climate".
Listen on SoundcloudSarah 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 Today