Faculty History

• Drones Reveal Earthquake Hazards Hidden in the Abyss | Science
  Drones can now help scientists track movement of underwater subduction zones. Harold Tobin, professor of Earth and space sciences at the UW, is - Read More

• Beneath the Ice | Scientific American
  To predict how much climate change will raise sea level, researchers are studying ice shelves, where vast expanses of ice meet the ocean. Eric Steig, professor of Earth and space ... - Read More

• PNSN Records SounderFC Soccer Shakes
  Besides a blog post on the pnsn.com web site several news media picked up our efforts to record the shaking due to SounderFC fans at the MLS Cup finals on Nov. 10, 2019 in ... - Read More

• Experts Agree More Tools Are Needed to Monitor Local Volcanoes | Skagit Valley Herald
  Mount Baker, in plain sight as a white-capped dome on days when the sky is clear, and Glacier Peak, a somewhat camouflaged mountain in a sea of jagged ridges, are volcanoes that ... - Read More

• Seismologists Record 'soccer Shake' During Sounders' MLS Championship Game | KING 5
  The MLS championship game at Century Link Field gave a special opportunity for researchers from the University of Washington-based Pacific Northwest Seismic Network to see if the ... - Read More

• Latest Science Shows How the 'biggest One' Will Unfold in the Northwest | KING 5
  We often think of earthquakes originating from one single spot, spreading out like a bulls-eye. But the Cascadia subduction zone would be more like ripping a sheet. Erin Wirth, a ... - Read More

• Cargo Spaceship Lifts off with Satellite Made by Students in Seattle | GeekWire
  Northrop Grumman launched a robotic Cygnus cargo capsule to the International Space Station on Saturday, marking one giant leap for a small satellite built by students at the ... - Read More

• 'HuskySat-1' Docks with International Space Station | KIRO 7
  Over the weekend the first Washington student-built satellite launched into space, destined for the International Space Station. - Read More

• Washington Students to Make Satellite History with HuskySat-1 | KOMO 4
  Students are often told words of encouragement, such as "the sky is the limit." These University of Washington students opted to shoot for the stars - Read More

• Phenomenally Powerful Superbolts Follow Unusual Patterns | Geographical Magazine
  An analysis of nine year's worth of lightning data, covering two billion strikes has led to some unusual discoveries about the phenomenally powerful "superbolt." Robert Holzworth, ... - Read More

• Washington's First Student-built Satellite Preparing for Launch
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• Rediscovery of Old Sediment from Beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet
  Rare samples of ice & sediment from beneath the Greenland ice sheet, recently rediscovered after nearly 30 years in freezers in Copenhagen, are the subject of a new study ... - Read More

• Can Regenerative Agriculture Reverse Climate Change? Big Food is Banking on It | NBC News
  Regenerative agriculture works to draw carbon out of the atmosphere and into the soil, but there's an ongoing debate on how much carbon can be stored there and for how long. David ... - Read More

• An Atmospheric Mystery: Scientist Tracks the Unusual Superbolts Lightning over Oceans
  Robert Holzworth a professor at the UW department of earth and space sciences and director of the World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN), has been tracking lightning for ... - Read More

• WWLLN and Superbolts in the NewYorkTimes
  Science story about our (WWLLN) recent JGR paper regarding superbolts, which are lightning strokes which are more than 3 orders higher in energy than the - Read More

• New Insights into the Geodynamics of the India-Asia Collision
  The collision between India and Asia, one of the most dramatic tectonic events of the last 100 million years, could have had a more complex history than we thought. Learn more ... - Read More

• UW Scientists Track Newly-discovered Lightning 'superbolts' | KOMO
  University of Washington researchers have been studying a relatively newly discovered phenomenon where thunderstorms can occasionally put out a super-charged bolt that releases ... - Read More

• Last Day of the Dinosaurs' Reign Captured in Stunning Detail | National Geographic
  Rocks from deep inside the Chicxulub impact crater show what happened in the minutes to hours after one of our planet's most catastrophic events. Jody Bourgeois, professor ... - Read More

• Lightning 'superbolts' Form over Oceans from November to February
  

  The lightning season in the Southeastern U.S. is almost finished for this year, but the peak season for the most powerful strokes of lightning won’t begin until November, ... - Read More

• Solving the Mystery of the Moses Coulee Canyon to Be Discussed in Kennewick | Tri City Herald
  The mystery of Washington state's Moses Coulee canyon will be discussed at a free lecture Sept. 10 in Kennewick. Joel Gombiner, a graduate student in Earth and space sciences at ... - Read More

• Over 4,100 Earthquakes Strike West of Puget Sound, but You Can't Feel Them | Seattlepi.com
  An episodic tremor and slip event appears to be underway, according to scientists at the UW-based Pacific Northwest Seismic Network. Steve Malone and Mouse Reusch, both with PNSN, ... - Read More

• Small Tremors Light Up Pacific Northwest | KOMO
  The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network has recorded over 4,000 tremors along the West Coast since Aug. 11. Stephen Malone, a research professor emeritus of Earth and space sciences ... - Read More

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