Live chat with ‘Sound and Vision’ filmmaker Eric Becker – EarthFix

Ashley Ahearn will host this live online chat with filmmaker Eric Becker. He directed the new People for Puget Sound documentary Sound and Vision. The film premieres in Seattle Monday Oct. 3. It will travel to Tacoma and Olympia later in the fall.

Low oxygen state may trigger fish kill in Hood Canal – KOMO news

Jan Newton is cited.

Boeing sees education as a ‘complex adaptive system’ – The Chronicle

Cutting-edge systems thinking is at work in Boeing’s surprisingly large education portfolio.

Arctic ice has decreased by half in 6 years – NYT

Results from a satellite-based study by Carleton University in Ottawa, released on Tuesday

Earthquake-maginfying bowl under Seattle in new detail – LiveScience

Andrew Delorey and John Vidale’s new paper in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America is discussed.

Flagging quake hotspots an inexact science – MSNBC

To better anticipate earthquakes, scientists undertook an experiment: Identify the likeliest places where magnitude-4.9 quakes or stronger would occur in California over five years. John Vidale, professor of Earth and space sciences, is quoted.

UW, WSU to receive $80 million to develop biofuels – Seattle Times

The UW News story here.

The UW’s portion of the USDA grant will be used to investigate turning wood into two formulations of a new fuel: one that would fuel jet engines, and another that could replace gasoline and run in any car, said Richard Gustafson, a professor of chemical engineering in the School of Forest Resources.