Faculty History

• Soil Health: The Next Agricultural Revolution | EcoWatch
  "By adopting three practices -- no-till farming, cover crops and diverse crop rotations -- farmers worldwide can help preserve the world's soils, feed a growing global population, ... - Read More

• Earth's Magnetic Pole is Wandering, Lurching Toward Siberia | Live Science
  Earth's north magnetic pole is on the move, unpredictably lurching away from the Canadian Arctic and toward Siberia. Ronald Merrill, an emeritus professor of Earth and space ... - Read More

• Chlorate-rich Soil May Help Us Find Liquid Water on Mars | Space
  If liquid water exists on the surface of Mars, it is most likely in the form of a briny mixture with magnesium chlorate salts, according to new experiments done by UW researchers. ... - Read More

• Scientists Claim Progress in Earthquake Prediction | The Washington Post
  The Big One -- a catastrophic earthquake -- is coming. When? Where? How violent and destructive will it be? Scientists would love to be able to answer these questions, but they've ... - Read More

• UW Glaciologist Gets First Look at NASA's New Measurements of Ice Sheet Elevation
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• Ancient Whale Named for UW Paleontologist Elizabeth Nesbitt
  

  A newly discovered species of whale -- found preserved in ancient rock on the Oregon coast -- has been named for a University of Washington paleontologist.

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• A Puppy Has Dug Up a 13,000-year-old Bone Belonging to an Ice Age Woolly Mammoth | Inquisitr
  A Labrador pup named Scout will forever go down in history as the ultimate good boy. The eight-month-old puppy has contributed to an exciting paleontological find after digging up ... - Read More

• Congressional Bill Would Keep Early Earthquake-warning-system Projects on Track, if Trump Signs It | The Seattle Times
  A bipartisan bill passed by Congress on Tuesday will likely keep the development of early earthquake-warning projects in the Pacific Northwest on track, if approved by President ... - Read More

• Antarctic Scientists Begin Hunt for Sky’s ‘detergent’ | Nature News
  To understand how the sky cleanses itself, a team of Australian and US researchers is heading to Antarctica, using ice cores to track down the atmosphere’s main detergent. Peter ... - Read More

• The 19th Century Antarctic Air Molecules That Could Change Climate Models | Discover Magazine
  Friends and loved ones bid adieu to members of the latest research team to begin the long trek to Antarctica this weekend. Peter Neff, a postdoctoral researcher in Earth and space ... - Read More

• Digitizing Earthquake Alerts to Save Precious Time in a Disaster | KING 5
  Scientists at the UW and the U.S. Geological Survey are working to add hundreds more digital earthquake detectors in Washington and Oregon in the coming years. Paul Bodin, network ... - Read More

• Timing a Tsunami | BBC
  How fast do Tsunamis travel, what makes them so devastating and can we predict when they're going to hit? Jody Bourgeois, professor emeritus of Earth and space sciences at the UW, ... - Read More

• 4 Volcanoes Near Vancouver 'very High Threat,' but Experts Say No Need to Duck and Cover | Globe News
  Scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey have ranked the volcanoes across the country at their current risk to erupt. And the results are troubling for a number of volcanoes ... - Read More

• Q&A: Provost Mark Richards' Welcome Lecture Asks: 'What Really Killed the Dinosaurs?'
  

  The University of Washington this summer welcomed a new provost and executive vice president, Mark Richards, ... - Read More

• When Will the Big One Hit?
  When will the "Big One" hit? Harold Tobin, the new director of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, answered this and more of our earthquake - Read More

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