A new analysis by the Navy suggests that ongoing training and testing activities could cause greater harm to marine mammals than previously estimated. Read more here.
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California sea lions love fish. And now, at least three, and maybe four, of the big marine mammals this year have managed to find their way above Bonneville Dam, the lowermost hydro project on the Columbia River (146 river miles from the Pacific). The animals are believed to have passed upstream through the dam’s navigation locks. One story, though not validated, is that one sea lion was seen riding a shipping barge through the locks at the dam. Arguably more important than how they made it past the dam is why — and what the consequences are for fisheries up there. Read more here. Some say that “climate is what we expect, weather is what we get”. But is the funding for climate hurting our ability to forecast weather? This Washington Post blog post is centered on this discussion, and cites ATMOS‘s Cliff Mass‘ blog heavily. Read more here.  NASA--An artist’s rendering of NASA’s NPP satellite in space. Launched last October, it is the first satellite designed to collect data for both short-term weather forecasting and long-term climate monitoring. The precipitious decline of funding for US-based research satellites will imperil efforts to monitor the Earth system, a National Research Council report stated. Atmospheric Sciences’ Dennis Hartmann is quoted. Read more here. A new KCTS/Earthfix documentary follows the Elwha river from the day it was dammed until the dam was removed. Watch it here, or look for it Wednesday at 7 p.m. PDT on KCTS 9 in Western and Central Washington, British Columbia and elsewhere in Canada. It airs again Sunday at 5 and 10:30 p.m. Undaming the Elwha will also air on other Northwest PBS stations in the coming months. Read more here!
 image courtesy of UW News Satellites are extremely important to the way we live today. And yet the real estate for satellites in the orbit around Earth is literally littered with expired technology. Now, ESS professor and Chair, Robert Winglee, has developed new technology that could clean up Earth’s orbit: a magetized ion plasma system. Sounds pretty cool, right? Read more here. A new online portal and iOS app, announced just a little over a year from the devastating tsunami in Tohoku, Japan, will help Oregon and Washington residents figure out whether they are in harm’s way should a tsunami hit. People can enter addresses and store and share evacuation routes for multiple locations. Oceanography’s Jan Newton is a key member of this project. Read more here! |
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