Ocean acidification is affecting our state’s oyster industry, and has been for seven years. That’s why Governor Gregoire put together a Blue Ribbon Panel for Ocean Acidification, which met on Wednesday to discuss the nature and implications of ocean acidification in Washington. Many of our CoEnv scientists sit on the panel. Read more here.
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The retreat of glaciers in the Olympics are causing multiple changes to salmon habitat in the watersheds they feed. Besides temperature changes due to lessening runoff, there is an increased amount of sediment being added to the Queets and the Quinault rivers. Research from the Climate Impacts Group is mentioned in this NWIFC article about the potential effects and management solutions. A new study released in the May 14 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has estimated that 9% – nearly one in ten – of the mammal species in the Western Hemisphere will not be able to migrate quickly enough to outpace the changes that global warming will effect on them and their habitats. The paper was authored by Carrie Schloss and Tristan Nunez, former grad students in SEFS, and their advisor Josh Lawler. Read more here. New research by Atmospheric Sciences’ Stephen Po-Chedley and Qiang Fu has identified a calibration error in a key data set, allowing for a correction in climate models that brings these models closer to observed data. Read more here. Also check out these FAQ‘s!  Ian Joughin/Science/AAAS--Massive sections of ice (center front) have broken away from the Jakobshavn glacier into the sea. There's enough water stored in Greenland's glaciers to raise the sea level by 20 feet. Changes in the speed that ice travels in more than 200 outlet glaciers indicates that Greenland’s contribution to rising sea level in the 21st century might be significantly less than the upper limits some scientists thought possible, a new study shows. Read more about it here, or listen to NPR’s “All Things Considered” story here! Big trees three or more feet in diameter accounted for nearly half the biomass measured at a Yosemite National Park site, yet represented only 1 percent of the trees growing there. Jim Lutz, research scientist in Environmental and Forest Sciences, is lead author of a paper on the largest quantitative study yet of the importance of big trees in temperate forests. Read more here.
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The warmer than normal winter in California meant a longer flowering time for cherry trees. These flowers were then repeatedly damaged by frost, and the consequence to the cherry crops are just beginning. UW climate research is mentioned. Read more 
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