ESS Newsletters

• Edge of Pine Island Glacier's Ice Shelf is Ripping Apart, Causing Key Antarctic Glacier to Gain Speed
  

  The ice shelf on Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier lost about one-fifth of its area from 2017 to 2020, mostly in three dramatic breaks. The timelapse video incorporates ... - Read More

• South Pole and East Antarctica Warmer Than Previously Thought During Last Ice Age, Two Studies Show
  

  The South Pole and the rest of East Antarctica is cold now and was even more frigid during the most recent ice age around 20,000 years ago -- but not quite as cold as ... - Read More

• The Last Glacial Maximum in Antarctica Wasn't Quite So Cold.
  New paper led by recent ESS graduate student Emma Kahle, Eric Steig, TJ Fudge, et al. shows it was ~6.5°C colder at South Pole 20 kyr ago. This new result is is better agreement ... - Read More

• The Weather is Getting Weirder at Our Poles
  Using ground observations of precipitation in the Antarctic, as well as thunderstorm and lightning data in the Arctic (from 'Lighting in the Arctic, by Prof. Holzworth and his ... - Read More

• Earthquake Early Warnings Launch in Washington, Completing West Coast-wide ShakeAlert System
  

  When the Big One hits, the first thing Washington residents notice may not be the ground shaking, but their phone issuing a warning. The U.S. Geological Survey, the University ... - Read More

• UW Launches GeoHazards Initiative; Names Paros Chair in Seismology and GeoHazards
  

  The UW’s GeoHazards Initiative aims to study earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides and volcanos to prevent the loss of life and property.

  Leveraging ... - Read More

• Deep Earthquakes Within the Juan De Fuca Plate Produce Few Aftershocks
  

  In the Cascadia subduction zone, medium- and large-sized "intraslab" earthquakes, in which the slip happens within the oceanic plate and below the continental plate, will ... - Read More

• UW AISES Rocketry Team Competing in First Nations Launch
  The UW chapter of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) is competing this year for the first time in the First Nations Launch sponsored by NASA Wisconsin ... - Read More

• Arctic Lightning Up 300% in One 11-Year Study (EOS)
  Holzworth and his collaborators found that the fraction of lightning occurring in the Arctic increased from roughly 0.2% in 2010 to a little over 0.6% in 2020. That threefold ... - Read More

• More on Arctic Lightning from the WWLLN Network
  Following the published paper (https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020GL091366 ... - Read More

• Warming Temperatures Tripled Arctic Lightning Strikes over the Past Decade
  Lightning strikes in the Arctic tripled from 2010 to 2020, a finding University of Washington researchers attribute to rising temperatures due to human-caused climate change. The ... - Read More

• Greenland Was Ice Free Some Time in the Last Million Years
  A paper in Proceedings of National Academy of Science, led by postdoc Drew Christ at the University of Vermont, with his advisor Paul Bierman (ESS alumn), along with Eric Steig ... - Read More

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