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Salty seas make lightning brighter | Hakai Magazine
Monday, January 4, 2021
Salt seems to be the reason why bolts are brighter over the ocean than over land. Robert Holzworth, professor of Earth and space sciences at the UW, is quoted. Read More -
3rd small earthquake hits Puget Sound area | The Seattle Times
Sunday, January 3, 2021
A small earthquake with a magnitude of 3.0 was reported near Carnation on Tuesday morning, one day after a smaller magnitude 2.2 quake was reported in the same location on Monday, according to the UW-based Pacific Northwest Seismic Network. Harold Tobin, director of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network and professor of Earth and space sciences at the UW, is quoted. Read More -
Small earthquake near Monroe follows other recent minor quakes in the Puget Sound area | The Seattle Times
Monday, December 28, 2020
A magnitude 2.9 earthquake was recorded about four miles from Monroe at 2:41 a.m. Monday, according to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network. Ken Creager, professor of Earth and space sciences at the UW, is quoted. Read More -
WWLLN detects increasing lightning in the Arctic as Earth warms
Thursday, December 17, 2020
Nature magazine reports on the AGU ( American Geophysical Union) paper presented this year by ESS Professors Holzworth,and McCarthy, senior scientist Jacobson, Grad student Todd Anderson, and collaborators Dr. James Brundell and Dr. Craig Rodger of the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. The authors found that the fraction of global lightning occurring north of 65 degrees has greatly increased in the last decade, and varies with the global temperature anomaly. They predict a 100% increase in Arctic lightning by the time the Earth warms another 0.5 degrees Centigrade. Read More -
An ice core from the roof of the world | Eos
Monday, December 14, 2020
An innovative National Geographic expedition collected the world's highest ice core from Mount Everest. Eric Steig, professor of Earth and space sciences at the UW, is quoted. Read More -
How the first life on Earth survived its biggest threat -- water | Nature
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Living things depend on water, but it breaks down DNA and other key molecules. So how did the earliest cells deal with the water paradox? David Catling, professor of Earth and space sciences at the UW, is quoted. Read More -
NSF-funded deep ice core to be drilled at Hercules Dome, Antarctica
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Researchers in Earth and Space Science are leading a new ice core project in Antarctica. Grad student Gemma O'Connor and ESS Chair Eric Steig are featured in UW news. Read More -
Optical lightning superbolts: Holzworth comments on recent optical work
Monday, December 7, 2020
Prof. Holzworth reviews and comments on recent optical lightning papers about superbolts, pointing out that recent optical work suggesting that superbolts are all from positive cloud to ground strokes, is misleading and possibly wrong. It certainly disagrees with the RF superbolt work based on the UW managed WWLLN network. Read More -
ArtSci Roundup: Global Challenges Discussion, Katz Lecture: Abderrahmane Sissako, and more
Thursday, November 12, 2020
During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the UW, and the greater community, together online.
Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All UW faculty, staff, and students have access to Zoom Pro via UW-IT.
Round Table Discussion 2: What Documents Constrain, Narrate, or Liberate Subjecthood?
November 11, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM | Online
Join the Henry Art Museum for a discussion on documented processes that are prescribed and enforced by official and state methods and how they can limit, if not erase, who we are, and, in doing so, lend insight into how we render persons as subjects and as legible. Round table participants include Assistant Teaching Professor of Interdisciplinary Visual Arts Dan Paz, and Assistant Professor of Law, Societies, and Justice and American Ethnic Studies Dr. Carolyn Pinedo-Turnovsky.Free | Register and More Info
Katz Lecture: Abderrahmane Sissako, “In Conversation: African Worlds / World Films”
November 12, 12:00 PM | Online
Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities, Abderrahmane Sissako joins scholars of film andAfrican Studies for a conversation on world cinema, post-colonialism, thinking 'Africa' beyond the confines of the continent, and in particular his 2014 film Timbuktu. The conversation will be in French and English.
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Global Month: A Conversation with Leela FernandesNovember 12, 5:30 – 6:30 PM | Online
Students and researchers are partnering across traditional boundaries to create a more equitable world. Join new Jackson School Director Leela Fernandes and Akhtar Badshah as they explore the essential role of area studies and international engagement in building a brighter future for all.
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Global Challenges DiscussionNovember 12, 6:00 – 7:30 PM PM | Online
Hosted by the Honors Program, Director of UW Honors Dr. Vicky Lawson will moderate a robust conversation between three UW teachers and thought leaders whose work interacts with this topic. Part-time Lecturer in the departments of Comparative History of Ideas and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Jeanette Bushnell, Professor of Public Health Clarence Spigner, and Research Associate Professor of Earth and Space Sciences Michelle Koutnik bring perspectives from glaciology, indigenous philosophy, public health, and so much more to the first online Global Challenges/Interdisciplinary Answers event.
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Jacob Dlamini: "Safari Nation: A Social History of the Kruger National Park"
November 12, 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Online
Jacob Dlamini‘s Safari Nation opens new lines of inquiry in the study of national parks in Africa and the rest of the world. Safari Nation details the ways in which Black people devoted energies to conservation and to the park over the course of the twentieth century. In this book talk sponsored by the Department of History and the Jackson School of International Studies, the author will discuss how Safari Nation engages both with African historiography and with ongoing debates about the "land question," democracy, and citizenship in South Africa.
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ONLINE: Jeremy DenkNovember 13, 12:00 PM – November 20 11:59 PM | Online
Jeremy Denk -- one of today's most virtuosic and imaginative pianists, a MacArthur Fellow and Avery Fisher grantee, and a thoughtful and engaging writer about music and more -- will delight Meany Center audiences with a performance that highlights and reflects on three leaders of the Romantic movement: Robert and Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms. The program features Missy Mazzoli's Bolts of Loving Thunder, composed in 2013 and inspired by what she calls the "romantic and stormy idea of Brahms."
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Book Talk: State Formation in China and Taiwan with Julia Strauss
November 13, 1:00 – 2:30 PM | Online
University of London Professor Julia Strauss will be giving a book talk sponsored by the Taiwan Studies Program of her newly published work, State Formation in China and Taiwan: Bureaucracy, Campaign, and Performance. This book is a comparative study of regime consolidation in the 'revolutionary' People's Republic of China and the 'conservative' Republic of China (Taiwan) in the years following the communist victory against the nationalists on the Chinese mainland in 1949.
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WWLLN and Superbolts in AGU Press Release
Thursday, November 12, 2020
Prof. Robert Holzworth was interviewed by AGU regarding some new research by Los Alamos National Lab scientists concerning superbolts from two optical instruments on satellites. Our ESS World Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN) is mentioned as the source of data for last years superbolt paper published by Dr. Holzworth, and that paper is also linked in the press release. Read More
