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• UW Scientist on How Climate Change is Impacting Soil and the Food We Grow | MyNorthwest.com
  David Montgomery, a professor of Earth and space science at the UW, argues that with the onset of climate change our soil is not going to be able to support our food - Read More

• Wind Shifts Caused by Human-induced Global Warming Cause of West Antarctic's Melting Ice | UPI
  Human-caused climate change has triggered wind shifts in Antarctica, according to a new study, driving accelerated melting across the continent's west coast. Eric Steig, professor ... - Read More

• USGS Awards $10.4M to ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning System in the Pacific Northwest
  

  The U.S. Geological Survey today announced $10.4 million in funding to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, ... - Read More

• Analysis: Restoring Soil Can Help Address Climate Change | The Daily Beast
  "It's time to take soil seriously. As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states with very high confidence in its latest report, land degradation represents 'one of the ... - Read More

• Analysis: Restoring Soil Can Help Address Climate Change | The Conversation
  "It's time to take soil seriously. As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states with very high confidence in its latest report, land degradation represents 'one of the ... - Read More

• New Study Definitively Links Western Antarctic Ice Melt to Human-caused Climate Change | New York Daily News
  As scientists watch the world's ice melt away, predict sea level rises, and sound the alarm about climate change, they have been struggled to demonstrate a direct link between ... - Read More

• First Evidence of Human-caused Climate Change Melting the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
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• Soundbites/B-roll: UW Hosts Student Robotics 'moon Landing' Challenge
  

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• Video: UW Hosts Student Robotics 'moon Landing' Challenge
  

  A robotics challenge July 20th at the UW featured twenty-eight teams of middle and high schoolers from Forks to Walla Walla and ... - Read More

• Soundbites/B-roll: UW Hosts Student Robotics 'moon Landing' Challenge
  

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• Kids Re-enact Moon Landing in Robot Challenge at UW -- and Win Trips to NASA Sites | GeekWire
  Middle and high school students from across Washington state competed in a robotics challenge last week at the University of Washington to mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo ... - Read More

• UW 'M9 Project' Has Bad News for Seattle, Bellevue | Q13
  The latest study from the M9 Project says many buildings in the Seattle area are at risk when a large earthquake hits nearby. Marc Eberhard, professor of civil and environmental ... - Read More

• Student Robotics Competition at UW Celebrates Apollo 11 Anniversary | KING 5
  Twenty-eight teams of 5-12th graders from across Washington state converged on the University of Washington Friday to show off their piloting, robotics, coding, and rock ... - Read More

• Students Compete in 'moon Landing' Challenge | KOMO Radio
  Young students across the state took part in a "moon landing" challenge at the UW using drones and robots. Robert Winglee, professor of Earth and space sciences at the UW, is ... - Read More

• UW Hosts Student Robotics Challenge Friday to Mark 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 Moon Landing
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• UW Hosts Student Robotics Challenge Friday to Mark 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 Moon Landing
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• 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

• Seismologists Seek Space on Volunteers' Floors and Lawns to Study Seattle Seismic Risks
  

  The Puget Sound area is vulnerable to several types of seismic risks. We might fixate on “The Really Big One” - the offshore hazard famously 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

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