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With overfishing, habitat loss, pollution, the proliferation of dams, and now climate change, the salmon that are a crucial part of so many of the Pacific Northwest’s indigenous peoples’ cultures are in severe decline. Learn about the work of the Tribes to counteract a future with no fish; Alan Hamlet and the Climate Impacts Group are mentioned. In honor of all bivalves, you should probably watch this video of a clam on a salty table. Read about it here.
Check out this student’s video from a project in ESS 102, taught by Erica Harnett: Check out these cool videos, highlighting two Earth and Space Sciences courses, and created by ESS students. The videos were created to promote ESS courses, and do a great job of highlighting the exciting course offerings and fun associated projects. Watch a video about ESS 205 – Access to Space — here, featuring balloon launch. Watch a video about ESS 102 here, which includes rocket launch. Check out this astounding time-lapse video, made of hundreds of photographs over the past 8 years, of Alaska’s Columbia Glacier as it rapidly loses its mass to the ocean. The world’s glaciers and ice caps — excluding those in Greenland and Antarctica — lost 148 gigatonnes per year between January 2003 and December 2010. Want to know more? Read more here. Check out this neato animation of the Vashon glacier over the past 19,000 years. The model was developed by ESS affiliate assistant professor Ralph Haugerud and others:
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