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China’s wood products industry slows – ChinaDaily

Although China continues to drive the global wood products industry and trade, it is apparently slowing down its pace. Read up on what this means for China and its partners; SEFS‘ Ivan Eastin is quoted.

November 7th, 2012 | Tags: ,

Seattle’s fault zone and ravens’ space use – This week’s CoEnv published research

Each week we share the latest publications coming from the College of the Environment. This week, 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: DIFFERENCES IN SPACE USE BY COMMON RAVENS IN RELATION TO SEX, BREEDING STATUS, AND KINSHIP (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

Authors: Webb, William C.1; Marzluff, John M.1; Hepinstall-Cymerman, Jeff2

1. Univ Washington, College of the Environment
2. Univ Georgia, Warnell Sch Forestry & Nat Resources

Journal: THE CONDOR

 

2. Title: High-Iron Biosolids Compost-Induced Changes in Lead and Arsenic Speciation and Bioaccessibility in Co-contaminated Soils (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

Authors: Brown, Sally L.1; Clausen, Ingrid1; Chappell, Mark A.2; Scheckel, Kirk G.3; Newville, Matthew4; Hettiarachchi, Ganga M.5

1. Univ Washington, College of the Environment
2. USA, Erdc, Environm Lab
3. US EPA, Natl Risk Management Res Lab
4. Univ Chicago, GSECARS
5. Kansas State Univ, Dep Agron

Journal: JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

 

3. Title: Harmful algal blooms along the North American west coast region: History, trends, causes, and impacts (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

Authors: Lewitus, Alan J.1; Horner, Rita A.2; Caron, David A.3; Garcia-Mendoza, Ernesto4; Hickey, Barbara M.2; Hunter, Matthew5; Huppert, Daniel D.6; Kudela, Raphael M.7; Langlois, Gregg W.8; Largier, John L.9; Lessard, Evelyn J.2; RaLonde, Raymond10; Rensel, J. E. Jack11; Strutton, Peter G.12; Trainer, Vera L.13; Tweddle, Jacqueline F.12

1. NOAA, Ctr Sponsored Coastal Ocean Res, Natl Ctr Coastal Ocean Sci, Natl Ocean Serv
2. Univ Washington, School of Oceanography
3. Univ So Calif, Dept Biol Sci
4. Ctr Invest Cient & Educ Super Ensenada, Biol Oceanog Dept
5. Oregon Dept Fish & Wildlife
6. Univ Washington, School of Marine and Environmental Affairs
7. Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Inst Marine Sci
8. Calif Dept Publ Hlth
9. Univ Calif Davis, Bodega Marine Lab
10. Univ Alaska Fairbanks, Sch Fisheries & Ocean Sci, Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program
11. Rensel Associates Aquat Sci
12. Oregon State Univ, Coll Ocean & Atmospher Sci
13. NOAA, NW Fisheries Sci Ctr, Natl Marine Fisheries Serv, Marine Biotoxin Program

Journal: HARMFUL ALGAE

 

4. Title: Global Contraction of Antarctic Bottom Water between the 1980s and 2000s (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

Authors: Purkey, Sarah G.1; Johnson, Gregory C.

1. Univ Washington, School of Oceanography
2. NOAA Pacific Marine Environm Lab

Journal: JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

 

5. Title: Biomechanics of Larval Morphology Affect Swimming: Insights from the Sand Dollars Dendraster excentricus (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

Authors: Chan, Kit Yu Karen

Univ Washington, School of Oceanography

Journal: INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

 

6. Title: Argon supersaturation indicates low decadal-scale vertical mixing in the ocean thermocline (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

Authors: Emerson, Steven1; Ito, Taka2; Hamme, Roberta C.3

1. Univ Washington, School of Oceanography
2. Georgia Inst Technol, Sch Earth & Atmospher Sci
3. Univ Victoria, Sch Earth & Ocean Sci

Journal: GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

 

7. Title: Fixed nitrogen loss from the eastern tropical North Pacific and Arabian Sea oxygen deficient zones determined from measurements of N-2:Ar (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

Authors: Chang, Bonnie X.1; Devol, Allan H.1; Emerson, Steven R.1

1. Univ Washington, School of Oceanography

Journal: GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

 

8. Title: A NEW US POLAR RESEARCH VESSEL FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

Authors: Dunbar, Robert B.1; Alberts, Jon2; Ashjian, Carin3; Asper, Vernon4; Chayes, Dale5; Domack, Eugene6; Ducklow, Hugh7; Huber, Bruce5; Lawver, Lawrence8; Oliver, Daniel9; Russell, Doug10; Smith, Craig R.11; Vernet, Maria12

1. Stanford Univ
2. Univ Rhode Isl, Grad Sch Oceanog
3. Woods Hole Oceanog Inst, Woods Hole, MA 02543 USA
4. Univ So Mississippi, Dept Marine Sci
5. Columbia Univ, Lamont Doherty Earth Observ
6. Hamilton Coll
7. Marine Biol Lab, Ctr Ecosyst
8. Univ Texas Austin, Inst Geophys
9. Univ Alaska Fairbanks, Seward Marine Ctr
10. Univ Washington, School of Oceanography
11. Univ Hawaii Manoa, Dept Oceanog
12. Univ Calif San Diego, Scripps Inst Oceanog

Journal: OCEANOGRAPHY

 

9. Title: Western limits of the Seattle fault zone and its interaction with the Olympic Peninsula, Washington (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

Authors: Lamb, A. P.1; Liberty, L. M.1; Blakely, R. J.2; Pratt, T. L.3; Sherrod, B. L.3; van Wijk, K.1

1. Boise State Univ, Dept Geosci
2. US Geol Survey
3. Univ Washington, School of Oceanography

Journal: GEOSPHERE

November 7th, 2012 | Tags: , , , ,

An inventive cockatoo highlights the power of general intelligence for innovation – Science

Image courtesy freeaussiestock.com, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License

In their natural habitat – the forests of Indonesia – cockatoos have never been seen making or using tools. But researchers report today that Figaro, a member of a captive colony of the birds in Austria, invents and uses stick tools of his own design. Read more about this phenomenon; SEFS‘ John Marzluff is quoted.

November 6th, 2012 | Tags: ,

Is interdisciplinary research a career risk? – This week’s CoEnv published research

Each week we share the latest publications coming from the College of the Environment. This week, 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: Is pretenure interdisciplinary research a career risk? (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

Authors:
E. V. Fischer, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
K. R. M. Mackey, Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
D. F. Cusack, Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles
L. R. G. DeSantis, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Vanderbilt University
L. Hartzell-Nichols, Program on Values in Society and Program on the Environment, University of Washington
J. A. Lutz, College of the Environment, University of Washington
J. Melbourne-Thomas, Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre, University of Tasmania
R. Meyer, California Ocean Science Trust
D. A. Riveros-Iregui, School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
C. J. B. Sorte, Environmental, Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Massachusetts Boston
J. R. Taylor, Research and Development, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
S. A. White, Department of History, Oberlin College

Journal: EOS

 

2. Title: Landscape-scale effects of fire severity on mixed-conifer and red fir forest structure in Yosemite National Park (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

Authors: Van R. Kanea, James A. Lutzb, Susan L. Robertsc, Douglas F. Smithd, Robert J. McGaugheye, Nicholas A. Povakf, Matthew L. Brooksc

a School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington
b College of the Environment, University of Washington
c U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, Yosemite Field Station
d Yosemite National Park
e USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, University of Washington
f USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Wenatchee Forestry Sciences Laboratory

Journal: FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

 

3. Title: Mapped versus actual burned area within wildfire perimeters: Characterizing the unburned (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

Authors: Crystal A. Koldena,  James A. Lutzb, Carl H. Keyc, Jonathan T. Kaneb, Jan W. van Wagtendonkd

a Department of Geography, University of Idaho
b College of the Environment, University of Washington
c Emeritus, US Geological Survey, Northern Rockies Science Center
d Emeritus, US Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center

Journal: FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

 

4. Title: Differences in wildfires among ecoregions and land management agencies in the Sierra Nevada region, California, USA (OPEN ACCESS!)

Authors: Jay D. Miller1, Brandon M. Collins2, James A. Lutz3, Scott L. Stephens4, Jan W. van Wagtendonk5, and Donald A. Yasuda6

1USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region, Fire and Aviation Management
2USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station
3College of the Environment, University of Washington
4Ecosystem Sciences Division, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley
5U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, Yosemite Field Station
6USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region

Journal: ECOSPHERE

 

5. Title: A two end-member model of wood dynamics in headwater neotropical rivers (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

Authors: Wohl, Ellen1; Bolton, Susan2; Cadol, Daniel1; Comiti, Francesco3; Goode, Jaime R.1; Mao, Luca4

1. Colorado State Univ, Dept Geosci
2. Univ Washington, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences
3. Free Univ Bozen Bolzano, Fac Sci & Technol
4. Univ Padua, Dept Land & Agroforest Environm

Journal: JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

 

6. Title: On the formation, ventilation, and erosion of mode waters in the North Atlantic and Southern Oceans (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

Authors: Trossman, D. S.1,2; Thompson, L.2; Mecking, S.2,3; Warner, M. J.2

1. Univ Michigan, Dept Earth & Environm Sci
2. Univ Washington, School of Oceanography
3. Univ Washington, Appl Phys Lab

Journal: JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-OCEANS

 

7. Title: Biological productivity along Line P in the subarctic northeast Pacific: In situ versus incubation-based methods (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

Authors: Giesbrecht, Karina E.1; Hamme, Roberta C.1; Emerson, Steven R.2

1. Univ Victoria, Sch Earth & Ocean Sci
2. Univ Washington, School of Oceanography

Journal: GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

October 31st, 2012 | Tags: , , ,

Many forests can recover from fire without our help – Yakima Herald-Republic

Wildfires burned more than 116,000 acres in Central Washington this fire season, leaving vast areas scorched and blackened. Although some areas burned so severely that the soil structure actually changed, in other areas the plants will come back — because they’re adapted to fire. Read more about forests’ ability to deal with fire; SEFS‘ David Ford is quoted.

October 29th, 2012 | Tags: , , ,

Fires, diatoms and bowhead whales – This week’s CoEnv published research

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

1. Title: Analyses of BlueSky Gateway PM2.5 predictions during the 2007 southern and 2008 northern California fires (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

Authors: Strand, Tara M.1,2; Larkin, Narasimhan2,3; Craig, Kenneth J.4; Raffuse, Sean4; Sullivan, Dana4; Solomon, Robert2; Rorig, Miriam2; Wheeler, Neil4; Pryden, Daniel4

1. Scion Res, Rotorua 3046, New Zealand
2. Pacific NW US Forest Serv, AirFire Res Team, Pacific Wildland Fire Sci Lab
3. Univ Washington, Coll Environm, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences
4. Sonoma Technol Inc

Journal: JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

 

2. Title: Interactions between Diatoms and Bacteria (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

Authors: Amin, Shady A.1; Parker, Micaela S.1; Armbrust, E. Virginia1

1. Univ Washington, School of Oceanography

Journal: MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

 

3. Title: Statistical modeling of baleen and body length at age in bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) (Abstract only; subscription required for full text)

Authors: Lubetkin, Susan C.1; Zeh, J. E.2; George, J. C.3

1. Univ Washington, School of Oceanography
2. Univ Washington, Dept Stat
3. N Slope Borough, Dept Wildlife Management

Journal: CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY-REVUE CANADIENNE DE ZOOLOGIE

October 25th, 2012 | Tags: , ,

Bio-oil creation a possible silver lining from beetle-killed trees

Fernando Resende, assistant professor in SEFS, is creating technology to be used in the vast swaths of beetle-killed trees across the West, a technology that would not only produce liquid biofuels but would also mitigate forest fires and beetle infestations. Learn more about Resende’s exciting project here!

October 16th, 2012 | Tags: , , ,
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