Today marks the beginning of the king tides season, a period where the Puget Sound overflows its banks, drawn by the combined pull of the sun and the moon. Like the ‘aqua alta’ of Venice, these tides are predictable yet not always convenient, as waves lap at roadways and crash into buildings along Oregon and Washington coasts. Yet with climate change and attendant sea level rise, these effects will become more common throughout the year. To document how this might look, the Washington state Department of Ecology started an initiative that encourages people to go out and photograph these seasonal tides. Read more about this initiative, and the CIG-generated report on future climate change impacts, here.
View Washington Coast King Tides Winter 2011-2012 in a larger map
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At the annual meeting of the American Geophysicists’ Society, climate scientists gave colleagues a peek at where climate science stands 5 years after their last push to inform the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Their analyses, roughly 1/3 of those slated for inclusion in the fifth climate assessment report (AR5) of the due out in 2013, suggest similar forecasts, and variability, as previous analyses. Read more here.  An illustration that accompanied a student project called “Crate to Plate," where students can order all the necessary fresh ingredients for cooking a fresh meal for two, packed in a single, stackable box, with recipe cards included. This was by students Aaron Calzado, Carly Cahill, Bridget Weis and Miles Koons. In the Introduction to Interaction Design, Art 381, the assignment Tad Hirsch gave his students was straightforward: Design a way to improve access to fresh local food on the UW campus. Read more about the ideas they came up with! The Society of American Foresters (SAF) recently released “Managing Forests Because Carbon Matters: Integrating Energy, Products and Land Management Policy”. This report, published in the Journal of Forestry, summarizes and analyses the most recent science regarding forests and carbon accounting, biomass use and forest carbon offsets. Read more about this report, in which SFR’s Elaine Oneil participated. The deployment of sensors in 15 regions of the world’s oceans shows an extremely wide variation in how rapidly waters are becoming acidified, according to research conducted by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Their data show how areas with cold upwelling have more acid waters. Read more here. |
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