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• 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

• Earthquake Research in Japan May Help Warn Us when the 'Big One' is Coming | KING 5
  The network of seismic stations keeping track of earthquakes as they happen in the northwest has a new leader. Harold Tobin, the new director of the Pacific Northwest Seismic ... - Read More

• Oldest Fossils or Just Rocks? Scientists at Odds over 3.7 Billion-year-old Structures | The Washington Post
  It was an extraordinary claim: Scientists studying a rock formation in Greenland said they had discovered Earth's oldest fossils, a series of small, cone-shaped structures left by ... - Read More

• Q&A with Harold Tobin, Director of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network
  

  Earthquake expert Harold Tobin joined the UW this fall as professor of ... - Read More

• Studying the Atmosphere Through Ice | Peter Neff | King5
  Scientists are using ice samples from Greenland and Antarctica to study how Earth's atmosphere has changed throughout history. Peter Neff, a postdoctoral researcher in Earth and ... - Read More

• Chlorate-rich Soil May Help Us Find Liquid Water on Mars | Astrobiology Magazine
  If liquid water exists on the surface of Mars, it is most likely in the form of a briny mixture with magnesium chlorate salts. Research by Jonathan Toner and David Catling, both ... - Read More

• NASA Probe Will Track Melting Polar Ice in Unprecedented Detail | Nature
  NASA is set to launch its most advanced global ice-monitoring satellite, which has been in the works for nearly a decade. Peter Neff, a glaciologist at the UW, is - Read More

• UW Polar Scientists Advised NASA on Upcoming ICESat-2 Satellite
  

  NASA plans to launch a new satellite this month that will measure elevation changes on Earth with unprecedented detail. Once in the air, it will track shifts in the height of ... - Read More

• Volcano Under Ice Sheet Suggests Thickening of West Antarctic Ice is Short-term
  A region of West Antarctica is behaving differently from most of the continent's ice, and a study led by UW-ESS postdoctoral researcher Nicholas Holschuh has discovered a new clue ... - Read More

• Detecting Life's Influence on Planetary Atmospheres | Space.com
  Biosignatures that vary in time and atmospheric gases that shouldn't exist without life to replenish them could be two possible ways to detect life on exoplanets. A research paper ... - Read More

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