Kimberly-Clark, the world’s largest tissue manufacturer, recently announced an agreement to work with Mount Vernon-based bamboo grower, Booshoot, to develop a mass-market toilet paper using 20 percent bamboo fiber. SEFS‘ William McKean is quoted. Read more here!
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A new report from the National Research Council examines predicted climate-change-driven sea level rise on the West Coast, as compared to global sea level rise over the next century. They find that California, which is expected to see sea levels slightly higher than projected globally, will be in deeper water than most (but not all) places in the Puget Sound. JISAO‘s Tom Ackerman is quoted; read more here. A Willapa Bay shellfish company is shifting some of its business to Hawaii because of ocean acidification that scientists believe is killing tiny oyster larvae in shellfish farms along Washington’s coast. Read more here. Researchers have measured the speed of the ocean’s slowest shark – the Greenland sharks, which “cruise” at 0.34m per second that is less than 1mph and revealed that they hunt sleeping seals. SAFS‘ Vince Gallucci is quoted. Read more here! In the southeastern region of Peru, gold mining is colliding with efforts to protect human health and ecosystem function. Jason Scullion, a graduate student in SEFS, and others talk to Nature about Peru’s gold rush and the struggles to optimize economic prosperity with environmental sustainability. Read it here!
New research from an international team of scientists – including UW professor emeritus Patricia Anderson – confirms that the Arctic has gone through intensely warm periods, warmer than scientists thought was possible, during the last 2.8 million years. Read more about this study here. Each week we share the latest publications coming from the College of the Environment. This week, five new articles co-authored by members of the College of the Environment were added to the Web of Science or published online. 1. Title: Assessing time-integrated dissolved concentrations and predicting toxicity of metals during diel cycling in streams (abstract; subscription required for full article) Authors: Balistrieri, Laurie S.1; Nimick, David A.2; Mebane, Christopher A.3 1. Univ Washington, School of Oceanography Journal: SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
2. Title: Flexural stiffness and composition of the batoid propterygium as predictors of punting ability (abstract; subscription required for full article) Authors: Macesic, Laura J.1; Summers, Adam P.2 1. Mt Holyoke Coll Journal: JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY
3. Title: Biological production in the NE Pacific and its influence on air-sea CO2 flux: Evidence from dissolved oxygen isotopes and O-2/Ar (abstract; subscription required for full article) Authors: Juranek, L. W.1,2; Quay, Paul D.3; Feely, R. A.2; Lockwood, D.3; Karl, D. M.4;Church, M. J.4 1. Univ Washington, Joint Inst Study Atmosphere & Ocean Journal: JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS
4. Title: Observations of internal waves and parametric subharmonic instability in the Philippines archipelago (abstract; subscription required for full article) Authors: Chinn, Brian S.1,2; Girton, James B.1,2; Alford, Matthew H.1,2 1. Univ Washington, Appl Phys Lab Journal: JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS
5. Title: Exploring errors in paleoclimate proxy reconstructions using Monte Carlo simulations: paleotemperature from mollusk and coral geochemistry (OPEN ACCESS!) Authors: Carre, M.1; Sachs, J. P.2; Wallace, J. M.3; Favier, C.1 1. Univ Montpellier 2, Inst Sci Evolut Journal: CLIMATE OF THE PAST |
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