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• Glacier Retreat in Alaska
  ESS graduate student Tayrn Black, who defended her PHD dissertation last month, has published research documenting 38 years of change for glaciers in Alaska’s Kenai Fjords ... - Read More

• New Tsunami Warning to Those in Seattle: If the Earth Starts Shaking, Get to Higher Ground ASAP | GeekWire
  If a really big earthquake hits offshore from Seattle, the city's shorelines could be struck with massive tsunami waves within a matter of three minutes. In a worst-case scenario, ... - Read More

• Earthquake Could Produce Tsunami Waves That Would Hit Seattle in Minutes | KIRO 7
  State officials are releasing new information about what a tsunami produced by a major earthquake on the Seattle Fault could do to Seattle and Puget Sound. The study prepared by ... - Read More

• Water Worlds Could Have Plumes of Nutrients Carried Up from Down Below | Universe Today
  Earth's oceans are one huge, uniform electrolyte solution. They contain salt (sodium chloride) and other nutrients like magnesium, sulphate, and calcium. We can't survive without ... - Read More

• On Alien Worlds, Exotic Form of Ice May Transport Nutrients | Space
  A high-pressure form of water ice known as ice VII has been shown to be capable of transporting salts rather than expelling them. Any potential alien life in the waters of vast ... - Read More

• Dave Montgomery's New Book: Healthier Soils Mean Healthier People.
  ESS faculty member, geomorphologist David Montgomery, has been exploring how practices that rebuild soil health affect the quality of the food that comes from that soil. His new ... - Read More

• Seismologist: Oregon Earthquakes Not a Precursor of the 'Big One' | MyNorthwest
  You can take a breath of relief -- the earthquakes that occurred in the Pacific Ocean off the Oregon coast this week are not a precursor of the "Big One." Several earthquakes ... - Read More

• Study Says Worst-case Northwest Tsunami Risk is Underestimated | KIRO 7
  It's hard to imagine anything worse than the 2011 tsunami in Japan. But a professor at the University of Southern California says an even larger tsunami could potentially hit the ... - Read More

• A Mega-tsunami in the Pacific North-west? It Could Be Worse Than Predicted, Study Says | The Guardian
  Scientists find the size of the 'outer wedge' of a faultline can magnify a rupture's impact, worrying news for a fault running from Vancouver Island to northern California. Harold ... - Read More

• Study: Regenerative Farming Boosts Soil Health, Yielding More Nutritious Crops | Mongabay
  A recent study, published in the journal PeerJ, compared the nutritional content of food crops grown using conventional versus regenerative farming practices -- those that build ... - Read More

• Dinosaur Apocalypse: The Last Day | PBS
  PBS NOVA explores a new theory for what caused the dinosaur extinction, based on evidence from Montana. UW Provost Mark Richards, professor of Earth and space sciences, is ... - Read More

• Pandemic Delays Afflict Polar Science
  The COVID19 pandemic has had a significant impact on Antarctic sciences, hitting an enterprise that was already stretched. Among the projects affected is the UW-led "Hercules ... - Read More

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