Faculty History

• Remembering Dr. J Dungan Smith (1939-2021)
  Dr. James Dungan Smith is remembered as a great mentor, advisor, scholar, a brilliant and versatile scientist, and a loving father, grandfather and - Read More

• UW Part of $25M NSF-funded Effort to Retrieve Earth's Oldest Ice Core
  

  University of Washington glaciologists will join colleagues from around the country in a ne!w effortto discover Antarctica's oldest ice and learn more about the history of our ... - Read More

• Research, Education Hub on 'coastal Resiliency' Will Focus on Earthquakes, Coastal Erosion and Climate Change
  

  The National Science Foundation has funded a multi-institutional team led by Oregon State University and the University of Washington to work on increasing resiliency among ... - Read More

• How Does the Thermal Structure of a Subduction Zone Evolve?
  EGU Geodynamics blog post features Asst. Prof. Cailey Condit and collaborator Adam Holt's work using geodynamic models to understand thermal evolution over the lifetime of a ... - Read More

• Volcanic Eruptions May Have Spurred First 'whiffs' of Oxygen in Earth's Atmosphere
  

  A new analysis of 2.5-billion-year-old rocks from Australia finds that volcanic eruptions may have stimulated! population surges of marine microorganisms, creating the first ... - Read More

• A Visit to Mt. Baker’s Easton Glacier
  This week, a few members of our UW News team joined glaciologists from the UW Department of Earth & Space Sciences on a trip to Mt. Baker. Students that came along got a pop quiz ... - Read More

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