Supramolecular dynamics of mucus – This week’s CoEnv published research

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

1. TitleFrustule-related gene transcription and the influence of diatom community composition on silica precipitation in an iron-limited environment (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

AuthorsDurkin, Colleen A.[ 1 ] ; Marchetti, Adrian[ 1,2 ] ; Bender, Sara J.[ 1 ] ; Truong, Tiffany[ 1 ] ; Morales, Rhonda[ 1 ] ; Mock, Thomas[ 3 ] ; Armbrust, E. Virginia[ 1 ]
[ 1 ] Univ Washington, School of Oceanography
[ 2 ] Univ N Carolina, Dept Marine Sci
[ 3 ] Univ E Anglia, Sch Environm Sci

Journal: LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

 

2. TitleNative versus exotic community patterns across three scales: Roles of competition, environment and incomplete invasion (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

Authors: Bennett, Joseph R.[ 1,2 ] ; Dunwiddie, Peter W.[ 3 ] ; Giblin, David E.[ 4 ] ;Arcese, Peter[ 1 ]

[ 1 ] Univ British Columbia, Ctr Appl Conservat Res
[ 2 ] Univ Queensland, Environm Decis Grp
[ 3 ] Univ Washington, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences
[ 4 ] Univ Washington, Burke Museum Nat Hist & Culture

Journal: PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

 

3. Title: Life-Cycle Assessment for the Production of Bioethanol from Willow Biomass Crops via Biochemical Conversion (document not available)

Authors: Budsberg, Erik[ 4 ] ; Rastogi, Mohit[ 4 ] ; Puettmann, Maureen E.[ 5 ] ; Caputo, Jesse[ 3 ] ; Balogh, Stephen[ 3 ] ; Volk, Timothy A.[ 3 ] ; Gustafson, Richard[ 1 ] ; Johnson, Leonard[ 2 ]

[ 1 ] Univ Washington, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences
[ 2 ] Univ Idaho
[ 3 ] SUNY Syracuse, Coll Environm Sci & Forestry
[ 4 ] Univ Washington, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences
[ 5 ] WoodLife Environm Consultants LLC

Journal: FOREST PRODUCTS JOURNAL

 

4. TitleAddressing Unknown Variability in Seemingly Fixed National Forest Estimates: Aboveground Forest Biomass for Renewable Energy (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

Authors: Suntana, A. S.[ 1,2,3 ] ; Turnblom, E. C.[ 4 ] ; Vogt, K. A.[ 1,5,6 ]

[ 1 ] Univ Washington, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences
[ 2 ] RMI, Bogor, Indonesia
[ 3 ] Surya Inst, Sustainable Terr Management & Integrated Renewabl
[ 4 ] Univ Washington, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences
[ 5 ] Interforest LLC
[ 6 ] Renewol LLC

Journal: ENERGY SOURCES PART A-RECOVERY UTILIZATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS

 

5. TitleInteractions Between HIV/AIDS and the Environment: Toward a Syndemic Framework (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

Authors: Talman, Anna[ 1 ] ; Bolton, Susan[ 2 ] ; Walson, Judd L.[ 1,3,4 ]

[ 1 ] Univ Washington, Dept Global Hlth
[ 2 ] Univ Washington, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences
[ 3 ] Univ Washington, Dept Med
[ 4 ] Univ Washington, Dept Pediat

Journal: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH

 

6. TitleThe Latitudinal Dependence of Shear and Mixing in the Pacific Transiting the Critical Latitude for PSI (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

Authors: MacKinnon, J. A.[ 1 ] ; Alford, M. H.[ 2,3 ] ; Pinkel, Rob[ 1 ] ; Klymak, Jody[ 4 ] ; Zhao, Zhongxiang[ 2 ]

[ 1 ] Scripps Inst Oceanog
[ 2 ] Univ Washington, Appl Phys Lab
[ 3 ] Univ Washington, School of Oceanography
[ 4 ] Univ Victoria

Journal: JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

 

7. TitleParametric Subharmonic Instability of the Internal Tide at 29 degrees N (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

Authors: MacKinnon, J. A.[ 1 ] ; Alford, M. H.[ 2,3 ] ; Sun, Oliver[ 4 ] ; Pinkel, Rob[ 1 ] ; Zhao, Zhongxiang[ 2,3 ] ; Klymak, Jody[ 5 ]

 1 ] Univ Calif San Diego, Scripps Inst Oceanog
[ 2 ] Univ Washington, Appl Phys Lab
[ 3 ] Univ Washington, School of Oceanography
[ 4 ] Woods Hole Oceanog Inst
[ 5 ] Univ Victoria, Victoria

Journal: JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

 

8. TitleInternal Bores and Breaking Internal Tides on the Oregon Continental Slope (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

Authors: Martini, Kim I.[ 1 ] ; Alford, Matthew H.[ 2,3 ] ; Kunze, Eric[ 2,3 ] ; Kelly, Samuel M.[ 4 ] ; Nash, Jonathan D.[ 4 ]

[ 1 ] Univ Alaska Fairbanks
[ 2 ] Univ Washington, Appl Phys Lab
[ 3 ] Univ Washington, School of Oceanography
[ 4 ] Oregon State Univ, Coll Ocean & Atmospher Sci

Journal: JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

 

9. TitleSupramolecular Dynamics of Mucus (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

Authors: Verdugo, Pedro

[ 1 ] Univ Washington, Friday Harbor Labs

Journal: COLD SPRING HARBOR PERSPECTIVES IN MEDICINE

 

10. TitleTemporal variation in river nutrient and dissolved lignin phenol concentrations and the impact of storm events on nutrient loading to Hood Canal, Washington, USA (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

Authors: Ward, Nicholas D.[ 1 ] ; Richey, Jeffrey E.[ 1 ] ; Keil, Richard G.[ 1 ]

[ 1 ] Univ Washington, School of Oceanography

Journal: BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Long-term relationships, access to data drive sustainability institutions’ success

Lisa Graumlich, Dean of the College of the Environment, spoke at the annual meeting of AAAS last month.

Successful sustainability research initiatives are grounded in long-standing relationships among scientists, local communities and decision-makers, and widely accessible research data and results, shared CoEnv Dean Lisa Graumlich at last month’s AAAS meeting. She spoke as part of a panel of deans, directors, and department heads who are all interested in bringing science to bear to meet societal issues around sustainability. Read the full article from UW News here.

The Flooded Earth: a preview of the book

The National Center for Science Education is offering a free preview (PDF) of ESS’ Peter D. Ward‘s The Flooded Earth: Our Future in a World Without Ice Caps

Save the whales? There’s an app for that! – Deep Sea News

Check out OCEAN’s Michelle Weirathmueller’s guest blog post at Deep  Sea News, wherein she discusses the possibility of saving right whales by installation of passive acoustic monitoring. Also check out her personal science blog, which is super cool and we are so glad we found it!

Students in Engage science speaker series & seminar will present at Town Hall this spring

The Engage graduate-level seminar course at the University of Washington teaches emerging scientists to effectively communicate through development of a seminar on their own research for a general audience. The course themes include storytelling, audience consideration, and public speaking while incorporating lessons and tools from a variety of sources: improvisational games, group discussion and feedback, and, most importantly, practice. After completion of the course, students give their presentations at a public venue. Check out their schedule here!

Polar Science Weekend begins tomorrow at Pacific Science Center – UW News

Would-be Arctic explorers of all ages can stoke their imaginations – and meet their real-life counterparts – tomorrow through Sunday (Feb. 28-March 3) at the 8th annual Polar Science Weekend organized jointly by the UW Applied Physics Laboratory and Pacific Science Center. In addition to the Applied Physics Laboratory, other UW units including oceanography, atmospheric sciences, Earth and space sciences and biology all will be represented, as will agencies such as the U.S. Coast Guard and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Read about it here!

Redmond students participate in first phase of WA Aerospace Scholars program – Redmond Reporter

Six students from Redmond have been accepted into Phase One of the 2012-13 Washington Aerospace Scholars (WAS) program. The WAS program is a free, competitive, science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education program for high school juniors from across Washington and is affiliated with the NASA Johnson Space Center’s National High School Aerospace Scholars program and with the University of Washington’s (UW)Department of Earth and Space Science. Read more here!