The development and seasonal cycles of birds’ singing has a lot to teach us about the human brain. Check out this article about how they are related, and what’s being done at UW to understand these relationships.
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The Internet has given rise to a new phenomenon called crowdfunding, and scientists are using this method of online public fundraising to produce and fund their research. One such crowdfunding venue is the #SciFund Challenge. In less than one week, participants in SciFund Challenge 2 have raised nearly $45,000 for their research projects. The month-long challenge raised over $76,000 in its first round. Of the 75 scientists taking part in the challenge, three are CoEnv students who have already raised $4,600 between them. SciFund, and crowdfunding projects like it, may be revolutionizing the way research gets done. Today’s tough economy demands a creative and entrepreneurial attitude toward academic funding. Research has typically been funded through grants and contracts allowing very little public participation. Crowdfunding allows the public to get a glimpse of research projects from their conception, providing people around the world with the opportunity to help such projects come to life. “The public wants to know what it’s like inside the Ivory Tower. Creativity and the Internet allow that to happen,” said Karyn Boenker, one of the University of Washington’s SciFund participants. Can crowdfunding offer an alternative or even a replacement for the granting process? The possibility lies in the hands of those who choose to donate and support modern fundraising, and in the hands of scientists who must communicate the importance of their research up-front to a wide range of audiences. Take a look at these CoEnv projects: Karyn Boenker, MS, is about to graduate from the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences. She is raising funds for an research project on public perceptions about peak oil and energy in Hawai’i (Project link). Email: kboenker@uw.edu Lauren Kuehne MS, is a freshwater ecologist at the School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences. Her research uses inexpensive soundscape data to monitor impacts of urbanization on species diversity and freshwater environments (Project link). Email:lkuehne@u.washington.edu Emma Timmins Schiffman is a PhD student at the School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences. Her research investigates how ocean acidification will impact Pacific oysters and other shellfish. Her work has been covered in the The Seattle Times (Project link). Email: emmats@u.washington.edu
Each week we share the latest publications coming from the College of the Environment. This week, eleven(!) new articles co-authored by members of the College of the Environment were added to the Web of Science or published online. 1. Title: Free-living and aggregate-associated Planctomycetes in the Black Sea (abstract; subscription required for full article) Authors: Fuchsman, Clara A.1; Staley, James T.2; Oakley, Brian B.2; Kirkpatrick, John B.1; Murray, James W.1 1. Univ Washington, School of Oceanography Journal: FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY
2. Title: Packing a pinch: functional implications of chela shapes in scorpions using finite element analysis (abstract; subscription required for full article) Authors: van der Meijden, Arie1; Kleinteich, Thomas2,3; Coelho, Pedro1 1. Ctr Invest Biodiversidade & Recursos Genet Journal: JOURNAL OF ANATOMY
3. Title: Single cell genome analysis supports a link between phagotrophy and primary plastid endosymbiosis (OPEN ACCESS) Authors: Bhattacharya, Debashish1,2; Price, Dana C.1,2; Yoon, Hwan Su3; Yang, Eun Chan4; Poulton, Nicole J.4; Andersen, Robert A.5; Das, Sushma Parankush1,2 1. Rutgers State Univ, Dept Ecol Evolut & Nat Resources Journal: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
4. Title: The effect of wind mixing on the vertical distribution of buoyant plastic debris (abstract; subscription required for full article) Authors: Kukulka, T.1; Proskurowski, G.2,3; Moret-Ferguson, S.2; Meyer, D. W.2,4; Law, K. L.2 1. Univ Delaware, Coll Earth Ocean & Environm, Sch Marine Sci & Policy Journal: GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
5. Title: Sensitivity of Midlatitude Storm Intensification to Perturbations in the Sea Surface Temperature near the Gulf Stream (abstract; subscription required for full article) Authors: Booth, James F.1; Thompson, Luanne2; Patoux, Jerome1; Kelly, Kathryn A.3 1. Univ Washington, Department of Atmospheric Science Journal: MONTHLY WEATHER REVIEW
6. Title: Factors controlling water-column respiration in rivers of the central and southwestern Amazon Basin (abstract; subscription required for full article) Authors: Ellis, Erin E.1; Richey, Jeffrey E.1; Aufdenkampe, Anthony K.2; Krusche, Alex V.3; Quay, Paul D.1; Salimon, Cleber4; da Cunha, Hilandia Brandao5 1. Univ Washington, School of Oceanography Journal: LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY
7. Title: The East Pacific Rise Between 9 degrees N and 10 degrees N: Twenty-Five Years of Integrated, Multidisciplinary Oceanic Spreading Center Studies (abstract; subscription required for full article) Authors: Fornari, Daniel J.1; Von Damm, Karen L.2; Bryce, Julia G.2;Cowen, James P.3; Ferrini, Vicki; Fundis, Allison5; Lilley, Marvin D.5; Luther, George W., III6; Mullineaux, Lauren S.7; Perfit, Michael R.8; Meana-Prado, M. Florencia2; Rubin, Kenneth H.9; Seyfried, William E.10; Shank, Timothy M.7; Soule, S. Adam1; Tolstoy, Maya4; White, Scott M.11 1. WHOI, Dept Geol & Geophys Journal: OCEANOGRAPHY
8. Title: BRINGING MID-OCEAN RIDGE DISCOVERIES TO AUDIENCES FAR AND WIDE: EMERGING TRENDS FOR THE NEXT GENERATION (abstract; subscription required for full article) Authors: Goehring, Liz1; Robigou, Veronique2; Ellins, Katherine3 1. Penn State Univ, Dept Biol Journal: OCEANOGRAPHY
9. Title: Low-Temperature Hydrothermal Plumes in the Near-Bottom Boundary Layer at Endeavour Segment, Juan de Fuca Ridge (abstract; subscription required for full article) Authors: Hautala, Susan1; Johnson, H. Paul1; Pruis, Matthew2; Garcia-Berdeal, Irene; Bjorklund, Tor1 1. Univ Washington, School of Oceanography Journal: OCEANOGRAPHY
10. Title: Endeavour Segment of the Juan de Fuca Ridge ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE PLACES ON EARTH (abstract; subscription required for full article) Authors: Kelley, Deborah S.1; Carbotte, Suzanne M.2; Caress, David W.3; Clague, David A.3; Delaney, John R.1; Gill, James B.4; Hadaway, Hunter1; Holden, James F.5; Hooft, Emilie E. E.6; Kellogg, Jonathan P.7; Lilley, Marvin D.1; Stoermer, Mark8; Toomey, Doug6; Weekly, Robert1; Wilcock, William S. D.1 1. Univ Washington, School of Oceanography Journal: OCEANOGRAPHY
11. Title: Phosphate transporters in marine phytoplankton and their viruses: cross-domain commonalities in viral-host gene exchanges (abstract; subscription required for full article) Authors: Monier, Adam1; Welsh, Rory M.1; Gentemann, Chelle2; Weinstock, George3; Sodergren, Erica3; Armbrust, E. Virginia4; Eisen, Jonathan A.5; Worden, Alexandra Z.1 1. Monterey Bay Aquarium Res Inst Journal: ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY 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!
 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. |
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