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• 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

• Humanity Hit Fast Forward on Geological Time, and There's No Rewind | Popular Science
  Without much effort, humans can warm the atmosphere, turn rainforests into deserts, and bleach coral reefs. Now, according to a study published April 15 in the Proceedings of the ... - Read More

• Historic Logging Site Shows First Human-caused Bedrock Erosion Along an Entire River
  

  Geologic time is supposed to be slow, and the most solid object should be bedrock. But new University of Washington research upends both concepts: Effects of logging show that ... - Read More

• Rapid Warming in Northwestern Canada
  Eric Steig & Spruce Schoenemann (now at the U. Montana) co-authored a paper with the U. Toronto's Trevor Porter, showing recent warming in the Yukon has surpassed anything in the ... - Read More

• North Dakota Site Shows Wreckage from Same Object That Killed the Dinosaurs
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