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Brightly colored sockeye salmon surge by as a Dolly Varden waits its chance to binge on salmon eggs. Source: J Armstrong / UW

Some Alaskan trout use flexible guts for the ultimate binge diet

March 20, 2013
In tests on campus this month, faculty member Ben Spencer checks the water condensing and dripping down matting material used in landscapes to control soil erosion. The group is evaluating inexpensive, readily available materials for fog harvesting. Source: P Cromwell / UW

UW students create, harvest fog in campus ‘hoop house’

March 18, 2013
Low, gray clouds in Antarctica’s Gerlache Strait. Source: Liam Quinn, Canada / Wikimedia Commons

Remote clouds responsible for climate models’ glitch in tropical rainfall

March 11, 2013
Tracking sediments’ fate in largest-ever dam removal

Tracking sediments’ fate in largest-ever dam removal

March 7, 2013
Seasonal ice on the Chuchki Sea, a marginal sea off the Arctic Ocean, in July 2010. Source: Bonnie Light

European satellite confirms UW numbers: Arctic Ocean is on thin ice

February 13, 2013
Researchers gathered sediment cores from lakes in 16 major watersheds in southwestern Alaska. Source: Lauren Rodgers

Salmon runs boom, go bust over centuries

January 14, 2013
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  • Brightly colored sockeye salmon surge by as a Dolly Varden waits its chance to binge on salmon eggs. Source: J Armstrong / UW
  • In tests on campus this month, faculty member Ben Spencer checks the water condensing and dripping down matting material used in landscapes to control soil erosion. The group is evaluating inexpensive, readily available materials for fog harvesting. Source: P Cromwell / UW
  • Low, gray clouds in Antarctica’s Gerlache Strait. Source: Liam Quinn, Canada / Wikimedia Commons
  • Tracking sediments’ fate in largest-ever dam removal
  • Seasonal ice on the Chuchki Sea, a marginal sea off the Arctic Ocean, in July 2010. Source: Bonnie Light
  • Researchers gathered sediment cores from lakes in 16 major watersheds in southwestern Alaska. Source: Lauren Rodgers

Recent Articles

These figures illustrate the shift of cloud cover associated with the jet streams over land by latitude over the past 40 years. In the north, the cloud cover is slowing moving north and in the south cloud cover is shifting south. This change supports previous findings that the jet streams are shifting toward the poles. Source: R. Eastman

Changes in cloud distribution explain some weather patterns

February 28, 2013

By Nancy Gohring
via UW News and Information

Regional cloud changes, such as those that result in less rain during monsoons in India and those that indicate a widening of the tropics, may be as important to watch as the overall amount of cloud cover, new University of Washington research indicates.
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An unusually large, long-lasting and powerful cyclone churned over the Arctic in early August 2012. Source: NASA Earth Observatory

Cyclone did not cause 2012 record low for Arctic sea ice

January 31, 2013

By Hannah Hickey
via UW News and Information

It came out of Siberia, swirling winds over an area that covered almost the entire Arctic basin in the normally calm late summer.
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Greenland ice core shows Antarctica vulnerable to warming

Greenland ice core shows Antarctica vulnerable to warming

January 23, 2013

By Vince Stricherz
via UW News and Information

An international study indicates the last interglacial period more than 100,000 years ago could be a good indicator of where the planet is heading in the face of increasing greenhouse gases and warming temperatures globally.
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