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Two lectures highlight Venus’ transit across the sun – UW News

(Sylvie Beland/NASA) An image from the 2004 transit of Venus across the sun. The striations of lines were caused by cloud cover. UW astronomy professors will discuss Venus in two talks the evening of June 4 in Kane Hall.

On June 5th, Venus will appear to traverse across the surface of the sun. Last occurring in 2004, this event won’t happen again until 2117. Want to learn more? The night before, there will be two talks about this astronomical event, given by scientists in astronomy and astrobiology. Check them out!

May 31st, 2012 | Tags: , , ,

New research in Bering Sea highlights systemic ecosystem changes with sea ice shifts – NOAA

(NOAA) Nancy Kachel and Carol Ladd deploy a bongo net to sample for zooplankton at the ice edge in the Bering Sea aboard the Research Vessel Thomas G. Thompson. Kachel is with the NOAA Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean at the University of Washington. Ladd is with the NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle.

Bering Sea marine mammals, birds, and fish are shifting where they eat, bear their young, and make their homes in response to changes in sea ice extent and duration. The details of these findings are now published in a special edition of the journal Deep Sea Research II, as a partnership between the NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL), NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center (AFSC), the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO), and several other academic and federal partners.

May 31st, 2012 | Tags: , ,

Angle of repose: as mountains get steeper, landslides become more frequent – UW News

U.S. Geological Survey/NASA/UW News. The Landsat satellite image at left shows a huge lake on the Tsangpo River behind a dam created by a landslide (in red, lower right of the lake) in early 2000. The image at right shows the river following a catastrophic breach of the dam in June 2000.

In a new study in Nature Geosciences, ESS’ Isaac Larsen and David Montgomery show that once the angle of a mountain slope exceeds 30 degrees – whether from uplift, a rushing stream carving away the bottom of the slope or a combination of the two – landslide erosion increases significantly until the hillside stabilizes. Read more here.

May 30th, 2012 | Tags: ,

Salmon farming’s worst enemy? – Seattle Times

“The virus lady”, she’s known as. Alexandra Morton stunned U.S. scientists last fall with trace evidence found in wild salmon of a virus that killed millions of farmed fish in Chile. That was just the beginning. Read more about Morton here; SAFS‘ Tom Quinn and Ray Hilborn are quoted.

May 30th, 2012 | Tags: , , ,

Long-lost photos document sensitivity of Greenland’s glaciers – LiveScience

Leveraging a set of photographs that had been tucked away for decades, researchers show the sensitivity of Greenland’s glaciers as they responded to the warm and cool periods of the 20th century. The Polar Science Center‘s Benjamin Smith is quoted. Read more here.

May 30th, 2012 | Tags: , ,

UW people, programs to shine at Seattle Science Festival – UW News

With the Pacific Science Center’s Seattle Science Festival, and the Seattle Center’s Next Fifty celebration, there is a lot of fun to be had this year. Check out the Festival’s June lineup of great UW people and projects; some events are even happening on or near campus! Read up and we’ll see you there!

May 30th, 2012 | Tags: , ,

Can forests be born complex? – this week’s CoEnv published research

Each week we share the latest publications coming from the College of the Environment. This week, eleven new articles co-authored by members of the College of the Environment were added to the Web of Science or published online.

1. Title: Evaluating fuel complexes for fire hazard mitigation planning in the southeastern United States (abstract; subscription required for full article)

Authors: Andreu, Anne G.1;Shea, Dan2; Parresol, Bernard R.3; Ottmar, Roger D.4

1. Univ Washington, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences
2. US Forest Serv, USDA
3. US Forest Serv, USDA, So Res Stn
4. US Forest Serv, USDA, Pacific NW Res Stn

Journal: FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

 

2. Title: Multiple successional pathways and precocity in forest development: can some forests be born complex? (abstract; subscription required for full article)

Authors: Donato, Daniel C.1; Campbell, John L.2; Franklin, Jerry F.3

1. Univ Wisconsin, Dept Zool, Ecosyst & Landscape Ecol Lab
2. Oregon State Univ, Coll Forestry
3. Univ Washington, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences

Journal: JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

 

3. Title: A comparison of geospatially modeled fire behavior and fire management utility of three data sources in the southeastern United States (abstract; subscription required for full article)

Authors: Hollingsworth, Lawen T.1; Kurth, Laurie L.2; Parresol, Bernard R.3; Ottmar, Roger D.4; Prichard, Susan J.5

1. US Forest Serv, USDA, Rocky Mt Res Stn, Missoula Fire Sci Lab,Fire Modeling Inst
2. US Forest Serv, USDA, Wildland Fire Management RD&A
3. US Forest Serv, USDA, So Res Stn
4. US Forest Serv, USDA, Pacific NW Res Stn, Pacific Wildland Fire Sci Lab
5. Univ Washington, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences

Journal: FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

 

4. Title: Fuel treatment effectiveness in forests of the upper Atlantic Coastal Plain – An evaluation at two spatial scales (abstract; subscription required for full article)

Authors: Ottmar, Roger D.1; Prichard, Susan J.2

1. US Forest Serv, USDA, Pacific NW Res Stn
2. Univ Washington, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences

Journal: FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

 

5. Title: Developing custom fire behavior fuel models from ecologically complex fuel structures for upper Atlantic Coastal Plain forests (abstract; subscription required for full article)

Authors: Parresol, Bernard R.1; Scott, Joe H.3; Andreu, Anne G2; Prichard, Susan J2; Kurth, Laurie4

1. US Forest Serv, USDA, So Res Stn
2. Univ Washington, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences
3. Pyrologix LLC
4. US Forest Serv, USDA, Rocky Mt Res Stn

Journal: FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

 

6. Title: Inorganic chemistry, gas compositions and dissolved organic carbon in fluids from sedimented young basaltic crust on the Juan de Fuca Ridge flanks (abstract; subscription required for full article)

Authors: Lin, Huei-Ting1; Cowen, James P.1; Olson, Eric J.2; Amend, Jan P.3,4; Lilley, Marvin D.2

1. Univ Hawaii, Dept Oceanog, Sch Ocean & Earth Sci & Technol
2. Univ Washington, School of Oceanography
3. Univ So Calif, Dept Earth Sci
4. Univ So Calif, Dept Biol Sci

Journal: GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

 

7. Title: Primary production and carbon export rates across the subpolar N. Atlantic Ocean basin based on triple oxygen isotope and dissolved O-2 and Ar gas measurements (abstract; subscription required for full article)

Authors: Quay, Paul1; Stutsman, Johnny1; Steinhoff, T.2

1. Univ Washington, School of Oceanography
2. Leibniz Inst Meereswissensch, IFM GEOMAR

Journal: GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

 

8. Title: Ontogenetic scaling of the morphology and biomechanics of the feeding apparatus in the Pacific hagfish Eptatretus stoutii (link not available)

Authors: Clark, A. J.1; Summers, A. P.1

1. Univ Washington, Friday Harbor Labs

Journal: INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

 

9. Title: A consumer one-two punch: facilitation and functional diversity prevent reversals in community state (link not availalbe)

Authors: Elahi, Robin1; Sebens, Ken P.1

1. Univ Washington, Friday Harbor Labs

Journal: INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

 

10. Title: Economic-based projections of future land use in the conterminous United States under alternative policy scenarios (abstract; subscription required for full article)

Authors: Radeloff, V. C.1; Nelson, E.2; Plantinga, A. J.3; Lewis, D. J.4; Helmers, D.1; Lawler, Josh J.5; Withey, J. C.5; Beaudry, F.6; Martinuzzi, S.1; Butsic, V.1; Lonsdorf, E.7; White, D.8; Polasky, S.9

1. Univ Wisconsin, Dept Forest & Wildlife Ecol
2. Bowdoin Coll, Dept Econ
3. Oregon State Univ, Dept Agr & Resource Econ
4. Univ Puget Sound, Dept Econ
5. Univ Washington, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences
6. Alfred Univ, Dept Environm Studies
7. Lincoln Pk Zoo, Urban Wildlife Inst, Conservat & Sci
8. Oregon State Univ, Dept Geosci
9. Univ Minnesota, Dept Appl Econ

Journal: ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

 

11. Title: Consumers mediate natural variation between prey richness and resource use in a benthic marine community (abstract; subscription required for full article)

Authors: Elahi, Robin1; Sebens, Ken P.1

1. Univ Washington, Friday Harbor Labs

Journal: MARINE ECOLOGY-PROGRESS SERIES

May 29th, 2012 | Tags: , , ,
 
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