ESS in the News
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Alaska Earthquake Provides Valuable Insight for Pacific Northwest Scientists | KING 5
A powerful earthquake off Alaska's southern coast jolted coastal communities and forced residents to briefly scramble for higher ground over fears of a tsunami. Paul Bodin, UW ... - Read More -
7 University of Washington Researchers Elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences in 2020. Congratulations to Prof. Dave Montgomery
Seven scientists and engineers at the University of Washington have been elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences, according to an Read More
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ESS Faculty Steig and Fudge to Lead Major New Drilling Project in Antarctica
NSF-funding research led by Eric Steig and TJ Fudge at UW, with Heidi Roop at U. Minnesota, Murat Aydin at UC Irvine, Mark Twickler and Joe Souney at UNH, will drill for ice ... - Read More -
Early Life Was Pumping out Oxygen, but the Earth's Mantle Was Absorbing It | Universe Today
The Great Oxidation Event took place 2.4 billion years ago. That's when photosynthetic bacteria flooded the atmosphere with oxygen, banishing early, non-oxygen using lifeforms to ... - Read More -
The College of the Environment Has Created a CoEnv COVID-19 Resources Page.
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Volcanic Activity and Changes in Earth's Mantle Were Key to Rise of Atmospheric Oxygen
Oxygen first accumulated in the Earth's atmosphere about 2.4 billion years ago, during the Great Oxidation Event. A long-standing puzzle has been that geologic clues suggest ... - Read More
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Analysis: It's Time to Rethink the Disrupted US Food System from the Ground Up | The Conversation
"The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic shutdowns have severely disrupted and spotlighted weaknesses in the U.S. food system. Farmers, food distributors and government ... - Read More -
NSF Plots a Course for the Next Decade of Earth Sciences Research
ESS faculty Kate Huntington is highlighted today for her leadership on the decadal vision for Earth Sciences at NSF, produced by the National Academies. A new report released ... - Read More -
How Routine Monitors Weather the Pandemic Storm | Eos
Much of routine monitoring can be done remotely these days, but networks aren't completely immune to COVID-19's society-halting symptoms. Harold Tobin, director of the UW-based ... - Read More -
Scientist Killed in Mount St. Helens Eruption Remembered 40 Years After Deadly Blast | KING 5
David Johnston, a scientist studying Mount St. Helens when it erupted in 1980, was killed in the blast. His body was never recovered. Steve Malone, emeritus research professor of ... - Read More -
A Plate Boundary Emerges Between India and Australia | Eos
Tectonic plates blanket the Earth like a patchwork quilt. Now, researchers think they've found a new plate boundary -- a line of stitching in that tectonic quilt -- in the ... - Read More -
2.9 Earthquake out of Mead, WA Felt Across the Inland Northwest on Friday Afternoon | KREM
A 2.9 magnitude earthquake hit Mead, Washington around 2:30 p.m. on Friday according to the United States Geological Survey. Paul Bodin, UW research professor of Earth and space ... - Read More -
40 Years After Mount St. Helens Eruption, Pandemic Sparks Parallels | Geekwire
Seismologist Steve Malone, emeritus research professor of Earth and space sciences at the UW, feels a magnitude-5.1 rumble of deja vu whenever he hears the latest developments in ... - Read More -
1,000-year-old Bones Represent Oldest Tsunami Victims in East Africa | National Geographic
A thousand years ago, a thriving early Swahili village bustled on the banks of Tanzania's Pangani River a few miles inland from the Inidan Ocean. Residents built their houses out ... - Read More -
Seismologists to Host Virtual Event on 40th Anniversary of Mount St. Helens Eruption
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- *ESS Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion The ESS Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee develops and promotes strategies and best practices that enable all undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, staff, and faculty to feel welcome, valued, and able to thrive in our department. We recognize and seek to address systemic barriers to opportunity and access across race, gender, class, ethnicity, age, ability, sexual orientation, geography, citizenship status, and other factors.
- 2020.06.04 AGU Ethics Report from ESS Community Event
- 2020.06.04 AGU Report Presentation from ESS Community Event
- 2020.06.04 Chat from ESS Community Event
- 2020.06.04 ESS Email Announcement with Links from ESS Community Event
- 2020.06.04 File Legend from ESS Community Event
- 2020.06.04 Graduate School Email Announcement from ESS Community Event
- 2020.06.04 Letter from Collective Black Organizations of UW from ESS Community Event
- 2020.06.04 Notes from ESS Community Discussion (Pt 1)
- 2020.06.04 Notes from ESS Community Discussion (Pt 2)
- 2020.06.04 Script for ESS Community Event
- 2020.06.04 Slides for ESS Community Event
- 2020.06.04 Slides for ESS Community Event Without Poll Results
- 2020.06.04 Slides without Poll Results from ESS Community Discussion
ESS Resources
CoEnv Resources
- CoEnv Diversity Resources An overview of diversity resources compiled by the College of the Environment
- Support for Diversity-Oriented Meetings The College supports a range of student organizations that organize and host meetings attended by College of the Environment students where central goals of the meeting include linking science (natural and/or social) to policy or real world application, and advancing diversity and inclusion within the College, the University, and relevant STEM fields.
UW Resources
- OMA&D Academic Counseling Services Offers one-to-one advising and academic assistance to UW students, particularly those from low-income families and underrepresented backgrounds, as well as students who will be the first in their family to graduate from a four-year college.
- Q Center Serves students, faculty, staff and alumni of all sexual and gender orientation, identities and expressions. Hosts and supports student groups and events.
- Title IX Resources
- UW Faculty Senate Inclusivity and Community The UW Faculty Senate Inclusivity and Community page provides a list of links and resources aimed at helping faculty learn how to use the classroom and our campuses to foster a climate of inclusiveness
- wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ – Intellectual House Serves as a multi-service learning and gathering space for American Indian and Alaska Native students, faculty and staff, as well as others from various cultures and communities, to come together in a welcoming environment and share knowledge.
- Women’s Center Promotes gender equity and social justice through educational programs and services that allow all participants to succeed in life.
Student Resources & Funding
- Graduate School/Graduate Opportunities & Minority Achievement Program (GO-MAP) Works with graduate students, faculty and staff to strengthen and maintain campus diversity while enhancing academic opportunities for graduate students of color and encouraging scholarship and research that explores cultural diversity.
- STEM Resources (OMA&D) Provide a suite of services ranging from advising to career and graduate school preparation for underrepresented minority, low-income and first-generation students pursuing majors in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
- Undocumented student resources Provides support services for undocumented students throughout the various stages of their Husky Experience.
Short Summaries of Best Practices
- American Geosciences Institute (AGI) Presentation on Equity in Graduate Admissions
- Accessibility Checklists for MS Word, PDFs, and PPTs Provides short checklists for MS Word, PDFs, and PPTs to confirm whether documents meet basic accessibility standards.
- Accessible Conference Presentations This handout provides a sample of the information that could be sent out to presenters in advance of a conference to help them make their presentations more accessible.
- Avoiding Gender Bias in Reference Writing
- Make Your PowerPoint Presentations Accessible Guidelines from Microsoft on making PowerPoint presentations accessible to people with disabilities.
- Navigating Virtual Hate Responding to Zoombombing Video URL and Transcript Video URL and transcript from presentation by Sumun L. Pendakur and Jade K. Agua at the USC Race and Equity Center on responding to zoombombing.
- Navigating Virtual Hate: Responding to Zoombombing Presentation Chat Box Q&A Summary of chat box Q&A from presentation by Sumun L. Pendakur and Jade K. Agua at the USC Race and Equity Center on responding to zoombombing.
- Navigating Virtual Hate: Responding to Zoombombing Presentation Slides Slides from a presentation by Sumun L. Pendakur and Jade K. Agua at the USC Race and Equity Center on responding to zoombombing.
- Undocumented Students Workshop Summary