Hadley cells, diatoms, fin whale tracking – This week’s CoEnv published research

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

1. TitleA springtime source of toxic Pseudo-nitzschia cells on razor clam beaches in the Pacific Northwest (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

Authors: Hickey, Barbara M.[ 1 ] ; Trainer, Vera L.[ 2 ] ; Kosro, P. Michael[ 3 ] ; Adams, Nicolaus G.[ 2 ] ; Connolly, Thomas P.[ 4 ] ; Kachel, Nancy B.[ 1 ] ; Geier, Susan L.[ 1 ]

[ 1 ] Univ Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[ 2 ] NW Fisheries Sci Ctr, Seattle, WA USA
[ 3 ] Oregon State Univ, Coll Earth Ocean & Atmospher Sci, Corvallis, OR 97331 USA
[ 4 ] Woods Hole Oceanog Inst, Woods Hole, MA 02543 USA

Journal: HARMFUL ALGAE

 

2. TitleUpstream Orographic Enhancement of a Narrow Cold-Frontal Rainband Approaching the Andes (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

Authors: Viale, Maximiliano[ 1 ] ; Houze, Robert A., Jr.[ 2 ] ; Rasmussen, Kristen L.[ 2 ]

 [ 1 ] CCT CONICET, Inst Argentino Nivol Glaciol & Ciencias Ambiental, Mendoza, Argentina
 [ 2 ] Univ Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA 98195 USA

Journal: MONTHLY WEATHER REVIEW

 

3. TitleDevelopment and validation of a quantitative PCR assay for Ichthyophonus spp. (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

Authors: White, Vanessa C.[ 1 ] ; Morado, J. Frank[ 1 ] ; Crosson, Lisa M.[ 2 ] ; Vadopalas, Brent[ 2 ] ; Friedman, Carolyn S.[ 2 ]

[ 1 ] NOAA, Natl Marine Fisheries Serv, Alaska Fisheries Sci Ctr, Resource Assessment & Conservat Engn Div, Seattle, WA 98115 USA
[ 2 ] Univ Washington, Coll Environm, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, Seattle, WA 98105 USA

Journal: DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS

 

4. TitleOn the Speed of the Eddy-Driven Jet and the Width of the Hadley Cell in the Southern Hemisphere (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

AuthorsCeppi, Paulo[ 1 ] ; Hartmann, Dennis L.[ 1 ]

[ 1 ] Univ Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA 98195 USA

Journal: JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

 

5. TitleGenome-wide diel growth state transitions in the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana (OPEN ACCESS!)

Authors: Ashworth, Justin[ 1 ] ; Coesel, Sacha[ 1 ] ; Lee, Allison[ 1 ] ; Armbrust, E. Virginia[ 2 ] ; Orellana, Monica V.[ 1,3 ] ; Baliga, Nitin S.[ 1,4,5,6 ]

[ 1 ] Inst Syst Biol, Seattle, WA 98109 USA
[ 2 ] Univ Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[ 3 ] Univ Washington, Appl Phys Lab, Polar Sci Ctr, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[ 4 ] Univ Washington, Dept Microbiol, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[ 5 ] Univ Washington, Dept Biol, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[ 6 ] Univ Washington, Mol & Cellular Biol Program, Seattle, WA 98195 USA

Journal: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

 

6. TitleTracking fin whales in the northeast Pacific Ocean with a seafloor seismic network (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

AuthorsWilcock, William

[ 1 ] Univ Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA 98195 USA

Journal: JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Seattle Science Festival to host discussion of climate change

The second annual Seattle Science Festival is currently underway, hosting a plethora of fun and informative activities for children of all ages to engage in science. This Saturday is the closing event of the festival, which focuses on the science of climate change. Featuring top names in climate science and science journalism, the event “Our 11th Hour: Straight Talk on Climate Change from Those Who Know” is sure to be intriguing and broad-ranging. The evening will be emceed by Usha McFarling, Pulitzer-prize-winning artist in residence at UW’s Department of Communications, and features a 30-minute performance by the Seattle Opera. Get tickets here. Alternatively, enjoy the live-stream, provided by ScienceOnlineSeattle, who will be convening an after-party after the event.

Rise of ‘Altmetrics’ revives questions about how to measure impact of research

Steven B. Roberts’s 103-page tenure package features the usual long-as-your-arm list of peer-reviewed publications. But Mr. Roberts, an assistant professor at the University of Washington who studies the effects of environmental change on shellfish, chose to add something less typical to his dossier: evidence of his research’s impact online.  Read more on The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Snowstorms, cougars, and Paris – This week’s CoEnv published research

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

1. TitleLarge-Scale Errors and Mesoscale Predictability in Pacific Northwest Snowstorms (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

Authors: Durran, Dale R.[ 1 ] ; Reinecke, Patrick A.[ 2 ] ; Doyle, James D.[ 2 ] 

[ 1 ] Univ Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA 98125 USA
[ 2 ] USN, Res Lab, Monterey, CA USA

Journal: JOURNAL OF THE ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES

 

2. TitleThe Role of Oceans and Sea Ice in Abrupt Transitions between Multiple Climate States (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

AuthorsRose, Brian E. J.[ 1 ] ; Ferreira, David[ 2 ] ; Marshall, John[ 2 ]

[ 1 ] Univ Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[ 2 ] MIT, Dept Earth Atmospher & Planetary Sci, Cambridge, MA USA

Journal: JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

 

3. TitleUnprecedented long chain 1-chloroalkenes and 1-chloroalkanes in the Holocene sediments of Lake El Junco, Galapagos Islands (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

Authors: Zhang, Zhaohui[ 1 ] ; Metzger, Pierre[ 2 ] ; Sachs, Julian P.[ 3 ]

[ 1 ] Nanjing Univ, Sch Earth Sci & Engn, State Key Lab Mineral Deposits Res, Nanjing 210093, Jiangsu, Peoples R China
[ 2 ] Univ Paris 06, BioEMco, CNRS, UMR 7618, F-75252 Paris, France
[ 3 ] Univ Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA 98195 USA

Journal: ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

 

4. TitleDemographic influences on cougar residential use and interactions with people in western Washington (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

AuthorsKertson, Brian N.[ 1 ] ; Spencer, Rocky D.[ 2 ] ; Grue, Christian E.[ 3 ]

[ 1 ] Univ Washington, School of Forest and Environmental Sciences, Coll Environm, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[ 2 ] Washington Dept Fish & Wildlife, Issaquah, WA 98027 USA
[ 3 ] Univ Washington, US Geol Survey, WA Cooperat Fish & Wildlife Res Unit, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, Seattle, WA 98195 USA

Journal: JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

 

5. TitleLink between the double-Intertropical Convergence Zone problem and cloud biases over the Southern Ocean (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

AuthorsHwang, Yen-Ting[ 1 ] ; Frierson, Dargan M. W.[ 1 ]

[ 1 ] Univ Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA 98195 USA

Journal: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

 

6. TitleEffects of bottom-layer hypoxia on spatial distributions and community structure of mesozooplankton in a sub-estuary of Puget Sound, Washington, U.S.A. (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

AuthorsKeister, Julie E.[ 1 ] ; Tuttle, Loren B.[ 1 ]

[ 1 ] Univ Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA 98195 USA

Journal: LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

 

7. TitleTrends in ISCCP, MISR, and MODIS cloud-top-height and optical-depth histograms (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

AuthorsMarchand, Roger

Univ Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA 98195 USA

Journal: JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

 

8. TitleIdentification of marine and continental aerosol sources in Paris using high resolution aerosol mass spectrometry (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

Authors: Crippa, Monica[ 1 ] ; El Haddad, Imad[ 1 ] ; Slowik, Jay G.[ 1 ] ; DeCarlo, Peter F.[ 1,4,5 ] ; Mohr, Claudia[ 1,6 ] ; Heringa, Maarten F.[ 1,7 ] ; Chirico, Roberto[ 1,8 ] ; Marchand, Nicolas[ 2 ] ; Sciare, Jean[ 3 ] ; Baltensperger, Urs[ 1 ] ; Prevot, Andre S. H.[ 1 ]

[ 1 ] Paul Scherrer Inst, Lab Atmospher Chem, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland
[ 2 ] Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, Marseille, France
[ 3 ] UVSQ, CNRS, LSCE, IPSL,Lab CEA, Gif Sur Yvette, France
[ 4 ] Drexel Univ, Dept Civil Architectural & Environm Engn, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
[ 5 ] Drexel Univ, Dept Chem, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
[ 6 ] Univ Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[ 7 ] WIL Res, Shertogenbosch, Netherlands
[ 8 ] DIM, UTAPRAD, Italian Natl Agcy New Technol Energy & Sustainabl, ENEA, Frascati, Italy

Journal: JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

College to offer 2-day science communication training to faculty: nominate someone today!

As announced in yesterday’s “Conversation on Science Communication”, the College of the Environment will be hosting a 2-day science communication training event for college faculty. Held on October 16-18, this intensive retreat will provide the opportunity to meet and work with 3-4 leading science and environmental journalists from around the country, and with nationally-recognized communication trainer Nancy Baron. Eighteen to twenty-two faculty will attend this training, a compressed version of the Leopold Leadership Program that will provide critical insights into the power of making your science accessible to wider audiences, the culture of traditional and social media, and message development and delivery in a variety of formats. Are you interested, or know of a faculty member in the College who might be? Nominate him/her at this link (you must have a NetID to nominate). Deadline for nomination is June 14!

Black carbon, sea ice, and hydrostatic pressure – This week’s CoEnv published research

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

1. TitleProkaryotic responses to hydrostatic pressure in the ocean – a review (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

Authors: Tamburini, Christian[ 1,2,3 ] ; Boutrif, Mehdi[ 1,2,3 ] ; Garel, Marc[ 1,2,3 ] ; Colwell, Rita R.[ 4,5 ] ; Deming, Jody W.[ 6 ]

[ 1 ] Aix Marseille Univ, Mediterranean Inst Oceanog MIO, F-13288 Marseille 9, France
[ 2 ] CNRS INSU, IRD UM 110, Paris, France
[ 3 ] Univ Sud Toulon Var, Mediterranean Inst Oceanog MIO, F-83957 La Garde, France
[ 4 ] Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[ 5 ] Univ Maryland, Johns Hopkins Univ, Bloomberg Sch Publ Hlth, Inst Adv Comp Studies, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[ 6 ] Univ Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA 98195 USA

Journal: ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

 

2. TitleBacterial and extracellular polysaccharide content of brine-wetted snow over Arctic winter first-year sea ice (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

Authors: Ewert, M.[ 1 ] ; Carpenter, S. D.[ 1 ] ; Colangelo-Lillis, J.[ 1 ] ; Deming, J. W.[ 1 ]

[ 1 ] Univ Washington, School of Oceanography, Seattle, WA 98195 USA

Journal: JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS

 

3. TitleCan black carbon in snow be detected by remote sensing? (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

Authors: Warren, Stephen G

[ 1 ] Univ Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA 98195 USA

Journal: JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

 

4. TitleChanges in various branches of the Brewer-Dobson circulation from an ensemble of chemistry climate models (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

Authors: Lin, P.[ 1 ] ; Fu, Q.[ 1,2 ]

[ 1 ] Univ Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[ 2 ] Lanzhou Univ, Coll Atmospher Sci, Lanzhou 730000, Peoples R China

Journal: JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

 

5. TitleShipboard measurements of gaseous elemental mercury along the coast of Central and Southern California (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

Authors: Weiss-Penzias, P. S.[ 1,5,7 ] ; Williams, E. J.[ 2,6 ] ; Lerner, B. M.[ 2,3 ] ; Bates, T. S.[ 4 ] ; Gaston, C.[ 5,7 ] ; Prather, K.[ 5 ] ; Vlasenko, A.[ 6 ] ; Li, S. M.[ 6 ]

[ 1 ] Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Dept Microbiol & Environm Toxicol, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
[ 2 ] NOAA, Earth Syst Res Lab, Boulder, CO USA
[ 3 ] Univ Colorado, Cooperat Inst Res Environm Sci, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
[ 4 ] NOAA, Pacific Marine Environm Lab, Seattle, WA 98115 USA
[ 5 ] Univ Calif San Diego, Dept Chem & Biochem, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
[ 6 ] Environm Canada, Sci & Technol Branch, Air Qual Res Div, Toronto, ON, Canada
[ 7 ] Univ Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA 98195 USA

Journal: JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

 

6. TitleFull-depth desalination of warm sea ice (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

Authors: Jardon, F. P.[ 1 ] ; Vivier, F.[ 1 ] ; Vancoppenolle, M.[ 2,3 ] ; Lourenco, A.[ 1 ] ; Bouruet-Aubertot, P.[ 1 ] ; Cuypers, Y.[ 1 ]

[ 1 ] Univ Paris 06, Lab Oceanog & Climat LOCEAN IPSL, F-75005 Paris, France
[ 2 ] Catholic Univ Louvain, Earth & Life Inst, Georges Lemaitre Ctr Earth & Climate Res, B-1348 Louvain, Belgium
[ 3 ] Univ Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA 98195 USA

Journal: JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS

Vote for the ENGAGE Speaker Series NSF Graduate Education Challenge entry!

Recently, the NSF put out a call for innovative ideas to improve graduate education. The ENGAGE Science Speaker and Seminar submitted a proposal to get programs like theirs going around the country.  We’re excited to share that they have made it through the first judging round of the NSF Innovation in Graduate Education Challenge.  Read more about this and how you can participate on the ENGAGE blog.