If ever a book risked being labeled “unsuitable for beach reading,” it might well be “Full Rip 9.0: The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest.” Author Sandi Doughton surveys the science and implications of the mega-earthquake certain to strike along the 750-mile Cascadia Subduction Zone fault that parallels the coastline of Oregon and Washington, and the tsunami it will send into our shores. Read more on Oregon Live, which includes Earth and Space Science’s Brian Atwater.
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Spotlight is an ongoing series that will introduce you to the many members that make up the College community. Karl Lang speaks as if being a geologist was his destiny. “I’ve always been interested in geology,” says Lang, who as a child was fascinated by rocks and fossils. He went on to study Geology and Economics at the College of William and Mary in Virginia and is now a PhD student in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences at the UW College of the Environment. Drawn by the quality of faculty, and the strengths of his advisor—Assistant Professor Kate Huntington—Karl joined the Tectonics and Erosion research group, which applies novel geochemical tools to understand the complex relationship between erosion and landscape evolution across the globe. “I have been very fortunate to have had opportunities to work on some great projects with fun people,” said Karl, reflecting upon his past fieldwork across the US, in India and in New Zealand on landscape evolution. His current research projects include looking at the erosion of the eastern Southern Alps of New Zealand and how the eastern Himalaya were formed. Recently, Karl spent seven weeks in Arunachal Pradesh, India, where he did field work on the Brahmaputra River, “one of the largest sources of sediment to the world’s oceans.” Karl seeks to understand how the Brahmaputra watershed has developed over its 10 million year history by collecting rocks layered within the sediments exposed on the cliffs of the eastern Himalaya. Investigating the rocks that were deposited when paleo-mountains—mountains that once existed in the past—were eroded, Karl is studying the processes by which erosion is recorded into the sedimentary layers. Within Dr. Huntington’s lab, Karl’s work is funded by the National Science Foundation, Geological Society of America, Quaternary Research Center and the UW Earth and Space Sciences Department. He has also received a Harry Wheeler Graduate Student Research Fellowship, George Goodspeed Graduate Student Research Award and Program on Climate Change Fellowship at the UW. Along with executing outstanding research, Karl’s ultimate career goal is to “use research as a tool to teach, mentor, and share the enthusiasm of scientific research with students.” Aside from being a teaching assistant, Karl has led and helped design field courses at UW, operated the departmental outreach group “Rockin’ Out,” and given a public talk at Town Hall as part of the UW Engage Science Speakers Series. Through these endeavors, Karl hopes to continue teaching and inspiring younger geologists in years to come. The eastern side of the Antarctic Peninsula, a finger of the southern polar continent that juts toward South America, has experienced summer warming of perhaps a half-degree per decade – a greater rate than possibly anywhere else on Earth – in the last 50 years, and that warming is largely attributed to human causes. Read more about what’s driving this in UW Today.
Each week we share the latest publications coming from the College of the Environment. Over the holiday weeks, nine new articles co-authored by members of the College of the Environment were added to the Web of Science or published online. 1. Title: Reconstructing El Nino-Southern Oscillation activity and ocean temperature seasonality from short-lived marine mollusk shells from Peru (Abstract only; subscription required for full text) Authors: Carre, Matthieu[ 1 ] ; Sachs, Julian P.[ 2 ] ; Schauer, Andrew J.[ 3 ] ; Elliott Rodriguez, Walter[ 4 ] ; Cardenas Ramos, Fredy[ 5 ] Journal: PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY
2. Title: Ocean Heat Transport and Water Vapor Greenhouse in a Warm Equable Climate: A New Look at the Low Gradient Paradox (Abstract only; subscription required for full text) Authors: Rose, Brian E. J.[ 1 ] ; Ferreira, David[ 2 ] Journal: JOURNAL OF CLIMATE
3. Title: Fin whale tracks recorded by a seismic network on the Juan de Fuca Ridge, Northeast Pacific Ocean (Abstract only; subscription required for full text) Authors: Soule, Dax C.[ 1 ] ; Wilcock, William S. D.[ 1 ] Journal: JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
4. Title: Isolation of an aerobic sulfur oxidizer from the SUP05/Arctic96BD-19 clade (Abstract only; subscription required for full text) Authors: Marshall, Katharine T.[ 1 ] ; Morris, Robert M.[ 1 ] Journal: ISME JOURNAL
5. Title: Tolerance and response of Zostera marina seedlings to hydrogen sulfide (Abstract only; subscription required for full text) Authors: Dooley, Frederick D.[ 1,2 ] ; Wyllie-Echeverria, Sandy[ 2 ] ; Roth, Mark B.[ 3 ] ; Ward, Peter D.[ 1 ] Journal: AQUATIC BOTANY
6. Title: Spatial structure of thermocline and abyssal internal waves in the Sargasso Sea (Abstract only; subscription required for full text) Authors: Sanford, Thomas B.[ 1,2 ] Journal: DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY
7. Title: Vertically averaged velocities in the North Atlantic Current from field trials of a Lagrangian electric-field float (Abstract only; subscription required for full text) Authors: Szuts, Zoltan B.[ 1,2,3 ] ; Sanford, Thomas B.[ 2,3 ] Journal: DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY
8. Title: Addressing assumptions: variation in stable isotopes and fatty acids of marine macrophytes can confound conclusions of food web studies (Abstract only; subscription required for full text) Authors: Dethier, Megan N.[ 1,2 ] ; Sosik, Elizabeth[ 3 ] ; Galloway, Aaron W. E.[ 2,3 ] ; Duggins, David O.[ 2 ] ; Simenstad, Charles A.[ 3 ] Journal: MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES
9. Title: The EM-POGO: A simple, absolute velocity profiler (Abstract only; subscription required for full text) Authors: Terker, S. R.[ 1,2 ] ; Sanford, Thomas B.[ 1,2 ] ; Dunlap, J. H.[ 1 ] ; Girton, J. B.[ 1,2 ] Journal: DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY Scientists surveying and studying a collection of 35 meteorites that landed in Morocco last year, say that a mysterious green rock dubbed NWA 7325 is likely from Mercury, according to reports. The green meteorite is under examination by a group of scientists at the University of Washington. The findings were presented during the 44th annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas. Learn more about this meteorite from ESS’ Anthony Irving, in this article from Counsel & Heal.
Each week we share the latest publications coming from the College of the Environment. Over the holiday weeks, 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: Isotopic and hydrologic responses of small, closed lakes to climate variability: Comparison of measured and modeled lake level and sediment core oxygen isotope records (Abstract only; subscription required for full text) Authors: Steinman, Byron A.[ 1 ] ; Abbott, Mark B.[ 1 ] ; Nelson, Daniel B.[ 2 ] ; Stansell, Nathan D.[ 3 ] ; Finney, Bruce P.[ 4,5 ] ;Bain, Daniel J.[ 1 ] ; Rosenmeier, Michael F.[ 1 ] Journal: GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA
2. Title: Population Structure of Clinical and Environmental Vibrio parahaemolyticus from the Pacific Northwest Coast of the United States (OPEN ACCESS!) Authors: Turner, Jeffrey W.[ 1,2 ] ; Paranjpye, Rohinee N.[ 1 ] ; Landis, Eric D.[ 3 ] ; Biryukov, Stanley V.[ 1 ] ; Gonzalez-Escalona, Narjol[ 4 ] ; Nilsson, William B.[ 1 ] ; Strom, Mark S.[ 1 ] Journal: PLOS ONE
3. Title: The anus as a second mouth: anal suspension feeding by an oral deposit-feeding sea cucumber (Abstract only; subscription required for full text) Authors: Jaeckle, William. B.[ 1 ] ; Strathmann, Richard. R.[ 2,3 ] Journal: INVERTEBRATE BIOLOGY
4. Title: On the Dynamical Causes of Variability in the Rain-Shadow Effect: A Case Study of the Washington Cascades (Abstract only; subscription required for full text) Authors: Siler, Nicholas[ 1 ] ; Roe, Gerard[ 2 ] ; Durran, Dale[ 1 ] Journal: JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY
5. Title: A 39-Yr Survey of Cloud Changes from Land Stations Worldwide 1971-2009: Long-Term Trends, Relation to Aerosols, and Expansion of the Tropical Belt (Abstract only; subscription required for full text) Authors: Eastman, Ryan[ 1 ] ; Warren, Stephen G.[ 1 ] Journal: JOURNAL OF CLIMATE
Each week we share the latest publications coming from the College of the Environment. Over the holiday weeks, seven new articles co-authored by members of the College of the Environment were added to the Web of Science or published online. 1. Title: Source levels of fin whale 20 Hz pulses measured in the Northeast Pacific Ocean (Abstract only; subscription required for full text) Authors: Weirathmueller, Michelle J.[ 1 ] ; Wilcock, William S. D.[ 1 ] ; Soule, Dax C.[ 1 ] Journal: JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
2. Title: Coral calcification feels the acid (Abstract only; subscription required for full text) Authors: Gagnon, Alexander C.[1,2,3] Journal: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
3. Title: Did life originate from a global chemical reactor? (Abstract only; subscription required for full text) Authors: Stueeken, E. E.[ 1,2 ] ; Anderson, R. E.[ 2,3 ] ; Bowman, J. S.[ 2,3 ] ; Brazelton, W. J.[ 2,3 ] ; Colangelo-Lillis, J.[ 2,3,5 ] ; Goldman, A. D.[ 2,4,6 ] ; Som, S. M.[ 2,1,7,8 ] ; Baross, J. A.[ 2,3 ] Journal: GEOBIOLOGY
4. Title: Estimation of hyperspectral inherent optical properties from in-water radiometry: error analysis and application to in situ data (Abstract only; subscription required for full text) Authors: Rehm, Eric[ 1 ] ; Mobley, Curtis D.[ 2 ] Journal: APPLIED OPTICS
5. Title: Foray foraging behavior: seasonally variable, food-driven migratory behavior in two calanoid copepod species (Abstract only; subscription required for full text) Authors: Pierson, James J.[ 1 ] ; Frost, Bruce W.[ 2 ] ; Leising, Andrew W.[ 3 ] Journal: MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES
6. Title: Revision of the genus Ulvella (Ulvellaceae, Ulvophyceae) based on morphology and tufA gene sequences of species in culture, with Acroehaete and Pringsheimiella placed in synonymy (Abstract only; subscription required for full text) Authors: Nielsen, Ruth[ 1 ] ; Petersen, Gitte[ 1 ] ; Seberg, Ole[ 1 ] ; Daugbjerg, Niels[ 2 ] ; O’Kelly, Charles J.[ 3 ] ; Wysor, Brian[ 4 ] Journal: PHYCOLOGIA
7. Title: Twelve-year responses of planted and naturally regenerating conifers to variable-retention harvest in the Pacific Northwest, USA (Abstract only; subscription required for full text) Authors: Urgenson, Lauren S.[ 1 ] ; Halpern, Charles B.[ 1 ] ; Anderson, Paul D.[ 2 ] Journal: CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH-REVUE CANADIENNE DE RECHERCHE FORESTIERE |
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