Faculty History

• Seattle Earthquake: 4.6 Magnitude Tremor Strikes One Week After California Quake | Newsweek
  An earthquake measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale hit Washington state in the early hours of Friday morning. Harold Tobin, director of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network at the ... - Read More

• 4.6 Earthquake Shakes Seattle Region Overnight | The Seattle Times
  A magnitude 4.6 earthquake shook Seattle and the Puget Sound region just before 3 a.m. Friday, according to the United States Geological Survey. Joan Gomberg, affiliate professor ... - Read More

• UW Seismologist Bill Steele on the Monroe Earthquake | KING 5
  University of Washington seismologist Bill Steele discusses the Monroe quake, early warning systems and what we can expect - Read More

• Northwest Seismologists See Lessons Learned from California Quakes | KNKX
  Seismologists in the Pacific Northwest have been getting a lot of calls in recent days after a major earthquake rattled remote Southern California over the Fourth of July weekend. ... - Read More

• Students Try Their Hand at a Mars Mission | Renton Reporter
  Local students are going to try their hand at putting people on Mars. Three talented Renton students are moving onto phase two of the Western Aerospace Scholars, after success in ... - Read More

• Saturn's Icy Moon Enceladus 'has All the Ingredients for Alien Life,' Scientists Say | Yahoo! News
  Geyser-like plumes of ice which erupt from the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus have offered a new hint that life could lurk in the moon's subsurface ocean. Lucas Fifer, a ... - Read More

• Astrobiologists Say Saturn's Moon Enceladus May Offer a 'free Lunch' | GeekWire
  The sea that lies beneath the icy surface of Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons, could provide even more fuel for extraterrestrial organisms than previously thought. UW doctoral ... - Read More

• Could These Stones from Africa Have Beginnings Beyond Earth? | History Channel
  Mysterious rocks are examined for their potential connection to extraterrestrial life. Peter Ward, a UW professor of Earth and space sciences, is - Read More

• Eric Steig in Science on "How Fast Will the Antarctic Ice Sheet Retreat?"
  Loss of Antarctic ice is contributing to sea level rise, but how fast this will occur in the future remains unknown. Eric Steig provides his perspective on the latest research, in ... - Read More

• On the Importance of Scientific Meetings
  Geological Society of America interviews PhD alumna Jillian - Read More

• Volunteers Asked to Give Up a Little Floorspace in Seattle to Help Scientists Better Map Seismic Data | GeekWire
  Researchers with the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network are looking for volunteers to help scientists better understand and map the Seattle Basin, a roughly 4-mile-deep area filled ... - Read More

• The World Needs Topsoil to Grow 95% of Its Food -- but It's Rapidly Disappearing | The Guardian
  Thanks to conventional farming practices, nearly half of the most productive soil has disappeared in the world in the last 150 years, threatening crop yields and contributing to ... - Read More

• Japanese Drill Ship Fails to Reach the Earthquake-generating Zone | Nature
  Japan's flagship ocean-drilling research vessel, Chikyu, has drilled deeper into the ocean floor than ever before. But it failed to achieve its ultimate goal of penetrating 5,200 ... - Read More

• Series of Small Earthquakes Detected in Washington and Oregon | The Seattle Times
  At least 13 small earthquakes have been recorded over the past two days in Oregon and Washington. Ken Creager, professor of Earth and space sciences at the UW, is - Read More

• 3.4 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Washington Coast Amid String of Tremors | MyNorthwest.com
  A 3.4-magnitude earthquake struck the Washington coast near Ocean Shores early Tuesday morning. Paul Bodin, network manager at the UW's Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, is ... - Read More

• UW Experts Talk About Volcano Research on Mount St. Helens Anniversary | Q13 FOX News
  Experts from the University of Washington, Harold Tobin and Steven Malone, give an in-depth look about today's volcanic research and monitoring on the day Mount St. Helens erupted ... - Read More

• Is Thwaites Glacier Doomed? Scientists Race Against Time to Find out | Public Radio International
  How quickly will Antarctica's massive Thwaites Glacier melt, and what will that mean for global sea levels and coastal cities? Researchers recently spent several weeks studying ... - Read More

• How Fast Will the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Retreat?
  Eric Steig has a commentary in Science about a new study from JPL on modeling ice sheets. The results show that feedbacks between glacier retreat and the solid Earth may slow ice ... - Read More

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