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Edge of Pine Island Glacier’s Ice Shelf Is Ripping Apart, Causing Key Antarctic Glacier to Gain Speed

By Hannah Hickey | University of Washington News and Information on Jun 18, 2021   Featured, Science/Education  

Edge of Pine Island Glacier’s Ice Shelf Is Ripping Apart, Causing Key Antarctic Glacier to Gain Speed

 The ice shelf on Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier lost about one-fifth of its area from 2017 to 2020, mostly in three dramatic breaks. The timelapse video incorporates satellite images from January 2015 to March 2020. For most of the first two years, the satellite took high-resolution images every 12 days; then for more than […]

How to Conserve Polar Bears — and Maintain Subsistence Harvest — under Climate Change

By Hannah Hickey | University of Washington News and Information on Mar 16, 2017   Featured, North Slope/Northwest Alaska, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

How to Conserve Polar Bears — and Maintain Subsistence Harvest — under Climate Change

Polar bears are listed as a threatened species as the ice-covered ocean they depend on for hunting and transportation becomes scarce. Changes in the Arctic Ocean are also affecting the humans who have called this area home and hunted across the landscape for thousands of years. Research from the University of Washington, the U.S. Fish […]

Ocean Conditions Contributed to Unprecedented 2015 Toxic Algal Bloom

By Hannah Hickey | University of Washington News and Information on Oct 3, 2016   At Sea, Featured, Science/Education  

Ocean Conditions Contributed to Unprecedented 2015 Toxic Algal Bloom

A study led by researchers at the University of Washington and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration connects the unprecedented West Coast toxic algal bloom of 2015 that closed fisheries from southern California to northern British Columbia to the unusually warm ocean conditions — nicknamed “the blob” — in winter and spring of that year. […]

Simulating Path of ‘Magma Mush’ inside an Active Volcano

By Hannah Hickey | University of Washington News and Information on Oct 2, 2015   Featured, Science/Education  

Simulating Path of ‘Magma Mush’ inside an Active Volcano

Months of warning signs from Mauna Loa, on Hawaii’s Big Island, prompted the U.S. Geological Survey to recently start releasing weekly updates on activity at the world’s largest active volcano. For now, such warning signs can only rely on external clues, like earthquakes and gas emissions. But a University of Washington simulation has managed to […]

Ancient rocks show life could have flourished on Earth 3.2 billion years ago

By Hannah Hickey | University of Washington News and Information on Feb 16, 2015   Featured, Science/Education  

Ancient rocks show life could have flourished on Earth 3.2 billion years ago

A spark from a lightning bolt, interstellar dust, or a subsea volcano could have triggered the very first life on Earth. But what happened next? Life can exist without oxygen, but without plentiful nitrogen to build genes – essential to viruses, bacteria and all other organisms – life on the early Earth would have been […]

Warmer Pacific Ocean Could Release Millions of Tons of Seafloor Methane

By Hannah Hickey | University of Washington News and Information on Dec 18, 2014   At Sea, Featured, Science/Education  

Warmer Pacific Ocean Could Release Millions of Tons of Seafloor Methane

Off the West Coast of the United States, methane gas is trapped in frozen layers below the seafloor. New research from the University of Washington shows that water at intermediate depths is warming enough to cause these carbon deposits to melt, releasing methane into the sediments and surrounding water. Researchers found that water off the […]

Greenland Melting Due Equally to Global Warming, Natural Variations

By Hannah Hickey | University of Washington News and Information on May 8, 2014   Breaking News, Featured, Science/Education  

The rapid melting of Greenland glaciers is captured in the documentary “Chasing Ice.” The retreat of the ice edge from one year to the next sends more water into the sea. Now University of Washington atmospheric scientists have estimated that up to half of the recent warming in Greenland and surrounding areas may be due […]

New Ocean Forecast Could Help Predict Fish Habitat Six Months in Advance

By Hannah Hickey | University of Washington News and Information on Sep 4, 2013   At Sea  

People are now used to long-term weather forecasts that predict what the coming winter may bring. But University of Washington researchers and federal scientists have developed the first long-term forecast of conditions that matter for Pacific Northwest fisheries.

Using Earthquake Sensors to Track Endangered Whales

By Hannah Hickey | University of Washington News and Information on May 15, 2013   At Sea  

The fin whale is the second-largest animal ever to live on Earth. It is also, paradoxically, one of the least understood. The animal’s huge size and global range make its movements and behavior hard to study.



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