Check out these beautiful photos of spring in the UW Botanic Gardens, taken by UW alum Art Wolfe. Man it’s good to be a dawg!
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On Tuesday, March 27, a National Academy of Sciences panel, the Committee on Science, Technology and the Law, heard testimony from the editors of research journals on the unhealthy state of science. One of those testifying was Dr. Ferric C. Fang, a professor of microbiology and laboratory medicine at the University of Washington and a UW Medicine physician. A broad range of reasons for the corrosion of the girders of science were discussed, including a lack of funding, a “leaky pipeline” of students, and an overemphasis on practical application. Read an account of this provocative and insightful discussion here. This year’s Environmental Challenge was met with bigger, bolder and greener projects than ever. The annual event, co-sponsored by the Foster School of Business, the College of the Environment and the College of Engineering, gave over $22,000 in awards to some very cool project. Read more here! (There’s a video too!) Check out this story in the UW Alumni magazine, Columns, and learn about ESS‘ Charles Plummer‘s early interest in science and engineering. He is the Graduate and Professional Student Senate President, and he now studies volcanology. Read more here! In ancient Earth history, the sun burned as much as 30 percent dimmer than it does now. Theoretically that should have encased the planet in ice, but there is geologic evidence for rivers and ocean sediments between 2 billion and 4 billion years ago. Scientists have speculated that temperatures warm enough to maintain liquid water were the result of a much thicker atmosphere, high concentrations of greenhouse gases or a combination of the two. Now University of Washington researchers, using evidence from fossilized raindrop impressions from 2.7 billion years ago to deduce atmospheric pressure at the time, have demonstrated that an abundance of greenhouse gases most likely caused the warm temperatures. Their work, which has implications for the search for life on other planets, is published March 28 in Nature. Read more here. Each week we share the latest publications coming from the College of the Environment. This week, one new article co-authored by members of the College of the Environment were added to the Web of Science or published online:
1. Title: Avian dispersal of exotic shrubs in an archipelago (abstract; subscription required for full article) Authors: Bennett, Joseph R1,2; Young, Emily J.1,2; Giblin, David E.3; Dunwiddie, Peter W.4; Arcese, Peter1,2 1. Univ British Columbia, Dept Forest Sci Journal: ECOSCIENCE |
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