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• Early Life Was Pumping out Oxygen, but the Earth's Mantle Was Absorbing It | Universe Today
  The Great Oxidation Event took place 2.4 billion years ago. That's when photosynthetic bacteria flooded the atmosphere with oxygen, banishing early, non-oxygen using lifeforms to ... - Read More

• The College of the Environment Has Created a CoEnv COVID-19 Resources Page.
  The College of the Environment has created a Read More

• Volcanic Activity and Changes in Earth's Mantle Were Key to Rise of Atmospheric Oxygen
  

  Oxygen first accumulated in the Earth's atmosphere about 2.4 billion years ago, during the Great Oxidation Event. A long-standing puzzle has been that geologic clues suggest ... - Read More

• Analysis: It's Time to Rethink the Disrupted US Food System from the Ground Up | The Conversation
  "The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic shutdowns have severely disrupted and spotlighted weaknesses in the U.S. food system. Farmers, food distributors and government ... - Read More

• NSF Plots a Course for the Next Decade of Earth Sciences Research
  ESS faculty Kate Huntington is highlighted today for her leadership on the decadal vision for Earth Sciences at NSF, produced by the National Academies. A new report released ... - Read More

• How Routine Monitors Weather the Pandemic Storm | Eos
  Much of routine monitoring can be done remotely these days, but networks aren't completely immune to COVID-19's society-halting symptoms. Harold Tobin, director of the UW-based ... - Read More

• Scientist Killed in Mount St. Helens Eruption Remembered 40 Years After Deadly Blast | KING 5
  David Johnston, a scientist studying Mount St. Helens when it erupted in 1980, was killed in the blast. His body was never recovered. Steve Malone, emeritus research professor of ... - Read More

• A Plate Boundary Emerges Between India and Australia | Eos
  Tectonic plates blanket the Earth like a patchwork quilt. Now, researchers think they've found a new plate boundary -- a line of stitching in that tectonic quilt -- in the ... - Read More

• 2.9 Earthquake out of Mead, WA Felt Across the Inland Northwest on Friday Afternoon | KREM
  A 2.9 magnitude earthquake hit Mead, Washington around 2:30 p.m. on Friday according to the United States Geological Survey. Paul Bodin, UW research professor of Earth and space ... - Read More

• 40 Years After Mount St. Helens Eruption, Pandemic Sparks Parallels | Geekwire
  Seismologist Steve Malone, emeritus research professor of Earth and space sciences at the UW, feels a magnitude-5.1 rumble of deja vu whenever he hears the latest developments in ... - Read More

• 1,000-year-old Bones Represent Oldest Tsunami Victims in East Africa | National Geographic
  A thousand years ago, a thriving early Swahili village bustled on the banks of Tanzania's Pangani River a few miles inland from the Inidan Ocean. Residents built their houses out ... - Read More

• Seismologists to Host Virtual Event on 40th Anniversary of Mount St. Helens Eruption
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• Faculty/staff Honors: Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies, Social Equity Award, Swedish Physical Geography Honor (Dave Montgomery), New Cascade Public Media Director
  

  Recent honors to University of Washington faculty and staff have come from the Association of Asian Studies, the American Society of Public Administration, the Swedish Society ... - Read More

• New Data from Martian Meteorite Hints at Conditions for Early Life | Forbes
  Japanese researchers have found tantalizing traces of ancient organic molecules containing nitrogen in an Antarctic meteorite known to have come from Mars. David Catling, a ... - Read More

• First Results from NASA's ICESat-2 Map 16 Years of Melting Ice Sheets
  

  Using the most advanced Earth-observing laser instrument NASA has ever flown in space, a team of scientists led by the University of Washington has made precise measurements of ... - Read More

• Confidence Erupts from a Camp at a Volcano: Summer Camp at Mount Saint Helens Empowers Girls with Science, Confidence, and Fun.
  GeoGirls is a 5-day, 4-night volcanology and technology summer camp run by the Mount St. Helens Institute. Featuring Elizabeth Urban and Kate Allstadt, from ESS & - Read More

• Marc Hirschmann Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  Along with UW president Ana Mari Cauci, and a number of other prominent scientists, artists, and other leaders, experimental petrologist Marc M. Hirschmann was made a member of ... - Read More

• How to Move 'hands On' Classes Online
  

  Every spring, Laura Prugh teaches a wildlife research techniques class at the University of Washington. Her ... - Read More

• The Hunt for Hydroxyl Radicals in Antarctica Could Reveal the Secrets of Our Future Climate
  In every sense, gazing into an Antarctic time tunnel is a chilling experience. You lean over an icy entrance about the size of a dinner plate being exceptionally careful not to ... - Read More

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