This RSS news feed maintained by uwnews.org, the University of Washington Office of News and Information, includes the last 10000 by Vince Stricherz(vinces@u.washington.edu). http://uwnews.org/apps/uwnews/public/rss.aspx?q=uwnByAuthorId&authorID=81&numToShow=10000 http://uwnews.org/images/uwnewslogo_small.jpg http://uwnews.org/ uwnews.org, the University of Washington Office of News and Information (c)2010 University of Washington News and Information | http://uwnews.org | uwnews@u.washington.edu | 206-543-2580 Bob Roseth | roseth@u.washington.edu Ken Fine | kenfine@u.washington.edu Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:28:12 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Scientists have devised a way to explore how phase transitions -- changes of matter from one state to another without altering chemical makeup -- function in less than three dimensions and at the level of just a few atoms. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=55299 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=55299 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:00:00 GMT UW research devises formula to examine just what types of change occur over time among complex and integrated structures. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=55191 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=55191 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:00:00 GMT Uncertainty about the effects of haze particles clouds the understanding of climate warming. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54983 Science Environment Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54983 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:15:57 GMT New research solves nagging issues in the theory of how cold dark matter let the universe evolve into the galaxy-rich cosmos we see today. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54791 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54791 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:00:00 GMT UW scientists have discovered more small seismic tremor events lasting one to 70 hours that occur in somewhat regular patterns in a megathrust earthquake zone in Washington and British Columbia, http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54372 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54372 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:36:12 GMT Scientists are hunting for sites in the Seattle area to place special seismographs designed to be easily installed in urban areas and record moderate to strong shaking from earthquakes. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54344 Science Community Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=54344 Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:32:16 GMT An international research team that includes a UW scientist finds the effects of climate change are greater than they were expected to be and getting more serious all the time. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=53877 Science Environment Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=53877 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:32:38 GMT For the first time, a group of scientists working in the Kuril Islands off the east coast of Russia has documented the scope of tsunami-caused erosion and found that a wave can carry away far more sand and dirt than it deposits. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=53117 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=53117 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:02:21 GMT Biologists for the first time have documented a second breeding season during the annual cycle of five songbird species that spend summers in temperate North America and winters in tropical Central and South America. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=53093 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=53093 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:53:49 GMT UW scientist instrumental in important step to convert methane gas to a liquid, giving the potential of making it more useful as a fuel and as a source for making other chemicals. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52992 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52992 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:45:45 GMT New research on the Kitsap Peninsula, at the west edge of Washington state's Puget Sound, finds evidence that land was raised at least 6 feet by ancient earthquakes. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52822 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=52822 Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:52:49 GMT Researchers led by a UW chemist have found a way to train tiny semiconductor crystals, called nanocrystals or quantum dots, to display new magnetic functions at room temperature using light as a trigger. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51638 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51638 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:00:00 GMT University of Washington researchers have found a way to measure exactly how much electrical current is carried by tiny bubbles and channels that form inside nanoscale solar cells, paving the way for development of more efficient materials. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51232 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51232 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:35:00 GMT A likely comet collision on Jupiter last week caused a minor sensation, but new research shows that similar impacts on Earth are most likely not responsible for any of the planet's mass extinctions. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51186 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51186 Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:00:00 GMT UW scientists say Seattle area bracing for triple-digit temperatures this week. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51162 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=51162 Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:51:55 GMT New research shows that, at least for some insects, wings that flex and deform, something like what happens to a heavy beach towel when you snap it to get rid of the sand, are the best for staying aloft. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50656 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50656 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:07:00 GMT New calculations indicate that, in nearby star systems, tidal forces exerted on planets by their parent star's gravity could limit what is regarded as a star's habitable zone and change the criteria for planets where life could potentially take root. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50350 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=50350 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:32:35 GMT A team of astronomers and astrobiologists has devised a technique to tell whether small Earth-like planets orbiting other suns harbor liquid water, which in turn could tell whether they might be able to support life. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49976 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49976 Tue, 26 May 2009 11:00:00 GMT In a new book, University of Washington paleontologist Peter Ward suggests that Earth is ultimately inhospitable to life, and that life itself might be the primary reason. Rather than the nurturing idea of the Gaia hypothesis, he invokes the darker Medea from Greek mythology. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49831 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49831 Wed, 20 May 2009 16:41:36 GMT There has been recent disagreement about the snowpack decline in the Cascade Mountains of the Pacific Northwest, but new research leaves little doubt that a warmer climate has a significant effect on the snowpack, even if other factors keep year-to-year measurements close to normal for a period of years. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49664 Science Environment Stephanie Kenitzer (425-432-2192) and Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49664 Tue, 12 May 2009 18:55:37 GMT The space shuttle Atlantis, leaving Monday for the Hubble Space Telescope, will be piloted by UW engineering graduate Gregory C. Johnson. The shuttle will carry a camera that UW astronomers helped build, which will replace Hubble's existing camera. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49455 Science Technology Hannah Hickey (206-543-2580) and Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49455 Wed, 06 May 2009 16:45:00 GMT A UW geologist is debunking the recent notion that 'chevrons,' large U- or V-shaped formations found in some of the world's coastal areas, are evidence of megatsunamis caused by asteroids or comets slamming into the ocean. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49190 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49190 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:00:00 GMT Astronomers have found hundreds of extrasolar planets in the last two decades, and new research indicates they might have found even more except for one thing - some planets have fallen into their stars and simply no longer exist. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49159 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=49159 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:56:37 GMT New research shows the sleep disruption associated with jet lag and shift work occurs in two separate but linked groups of neurons below the hypothalamus at the base of the brain. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48866 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=48866 Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:00:00 GMT Lizards living in tropical forests could be in serious peril from rising temperatures associated with climate change. In fact, those forest lizards appear to tolerate a much narrower range of survivable temperatures than do their relatives at higher latitudes and are actually less tolerant of high temperatures. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=47732 Science Environment Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=47732 Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:01:08 GMT New research shows that the large-scale evolution of microbes was mostly complete 2.5 billion years ago, and that included the beginning of the modern aerobic nitrogen cycle. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=47460 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=47460 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:00:00 GMT Magellanic penguins, like most other species of the flightless birds, are having their survival challenged by wide variability in conditions and food availability, a University of Washington biologist has found. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=47314 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=47314 Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:00:00 GMT New evidence suggests that tectonic plate slippage and nonvolcanic tremor near the Cascadia subduction zone both are signs of processes taking place 25 miles deep at the interface of the Juan de Fuca and North American plates. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=46826 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=46826 Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:00:00 GMT New research shows that, contrary popular belief, much of Antarctica has been warming like the rest of the world for the last 50 years. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=46448 Science Environment Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=46448 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:00:00 GMT New research shows that rapidly warming climate is likely to seriously alter crop yields in the tropics and subtropics by the end of this century and, without adaptation, will leave half the world's population facing serious food shortages. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=46272 Science Environment Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=46272 Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:00:00 GMT As the International Year of Astronomy dawns, a UW professor recounts the achievements of the renowned Hubble Space Telescope as it prepares for its final chapter. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=46088 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=46088 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:54:43 GMT New research shows that the great Indian Ocean earthquake that struck off the Indonesian island of Sumatra on the day after Christmas in 2004 set off tremors nearly 9,000 miles away in the San Andreas fault at Parkfield, Calif. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=45854 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=45854 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:20:09 GMT UW atmospheric sciences professor's book explains many phenomena of Northwest weather. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=45154 Science Environment Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=45154 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:22:47 GMT DNA evidence shows conclusively that males from a North American warbler species interbred with females from a related species and took over a large part of the other species' range. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=44978 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=44978 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:52:05 GMT A quarter-million people were killed when a tsunami inundated Indian Ocean coastlines the day after Christmas in 2004. Now scientists have found evidence that the event was not a first-time occurrence. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=44810 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=44810 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:17:21 GMT New research suggests that the edge of the Tibetan plateau might have been preserved for thousands of years by ice and glacial debris at the mouth of many tributaries to the Tsangpo River. Those deposits appear to have acted as dams that prevented the rapidly traveling Tsangpo from carving upstream into the plateau. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=44214 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=44214 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:00:00 GMT David Montgomery, an Earth and space sciences professor noted for his study of how soil and rivers shape civilizations, is one of 25 new MacArthur fellows. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43719 Campus Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43719 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:01:00 GMT New simulations challenge a long-held belief, indicating that in galaxies similar to the Milky Way stars such as our sun can migrate great distances. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43593 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43593 Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:45:00 GMT Paleontologists have found a previously unknown amphibious predator that probably made the Antarctica of 240 million years ago something less than a hospitable place. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43565 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43565 Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:01:00 GMT Rose Ann Cattolico is convinced algae can be a major source of environmentally friendly fuels for everything from lawn mowers to jet airplanes. Now an investment company that works with universities to commercialize early-stage technology invested in the University of Washington biology professor's work, forming a startup company called AXI. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43454 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43454 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:29:09 GMT The newest space telescope is the payoff for years of work for a UW physicist. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43443 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43443 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:00:00 GMT New UW research shows that bugs -- both the crawling kind and ones you can only see with a microscope -- are responsible for the heat in chili peppers. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43214 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43214 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:00:00 GMT Brown tree snakes have come to embody the bad things that can happen when invasive species show up where they have few predators. But new research suggests that indirect impacts might be even farther reaching, possibly changing tree distributions and altering already damaged ecosystems. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43191 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43191 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT African elephants are being slaughtered for their ivory at a pace unseen since an international ban on the ivory trade took effect in 1989, but a University of Washington conservation biologist believes there is little outcry because the public seems to be unaware of the giant mammals' plight. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43057 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43057 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:26:18 GMT Paleontologists in 2005 hailed research apparently showing that soft tissues had been recovered from dissolved dinosaur bones, but new research suggests the supposed recovered tissue is really just biofilm - or slime. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43040 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=43040 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:00:00 GMT Like the proverbial canary in the coal mine, penguins are sounding the alarm for potentially catastrophic changes in the world's oceans, and the culprit isn't only climate change, says a UW conservation biologist. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42685 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42685 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT A new mineral, the first to be discovered inside a particle from a comet, has officially been named in honor of UW astronomy professor Donald Brownlee. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42455 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42455 Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:22:24 GMT For the first time paleontologists have found fossilized burrows of tetrapods -- any land vertebrates with four legs or leglike appendages -- in Antarctica dating from the Early Triassic epoch, about 245 million years ago. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42393 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42393 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 01:01:00 GMT Biofuels based on renewable sources are increasingly popular as a way to reduce fossil fuel dependence and limit greenhouse gas emissions, but new research shows that some of the most popular current biofuel stocks might have exactly the opposite impacts than intended. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42067 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=42067 Tue, 27 May 2008 17:39:42 GMT University of Washington scientists played a central role in building part of the Atlas detector, part of the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, which goes online this summer and is hoped will resolve some long-standing physics problems. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=41907 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=41907 Wed, 21 May 2008 20:34:25 GMT The Arctic has become a poster child for climate change, but new UW research shows that species living in the tropics likely face the greatest peril in a warmer world. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=41551 Science Environment Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=41551 Mon, 05 May 2008 22:00:00 GMT UW scientists say satellite data could help to save herds of musk oxen and reindeer cut off from their food supply. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=40505 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=40505 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:00:00 GMT Biologists find that sand dollar larvae created clones of themselves within 24 hours of being exposed to fish mucous, a cue that predators are near. The cloning process resulted in small new larvae and original larvae that were substantially smaller. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=40466 Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=40466 Thu, 13 Mar 2008 19:07:34 GMT A slow-slip seismic event shows up in western Washington right on time. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=40210 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=40210 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:50:07 GMT A meteoroid that lit up the sky early Tuesday didn't hit the ground, UW scientists say http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=39909 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=39909 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:08:17 GMT Melting glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica, combined with other effects of global climate change, are likely to raise sea levels in parts of Western Washington by the end of this century. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=39136 Science Environment Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=39136 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:15:49 GMT Dust from the Gobi and Taklimakan deserts in China and Mongolia is routinely present in the air over the western United States during spring months, a University of Washington researcher has found. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=38562 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=38562 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:37:00 GMT The Earth's magnetic field can provide some protection from radiation for humans on the moon, new research shows. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=38521 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=38521 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:00:04 GMT Scientists find evidence that slow-slip events, what amount to ultra-slow-motion earthquakes, are influenced by the rise and fall of ocean tides. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=38142 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=38142 Thu, 22 Nov 2007 22:45:38 GMT New research has turned up evidence of tremors along non-subduction zone faults in seven California locations immediately following the magnitude 7.8 Denali earthquake in Alaska in 2002. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=38141 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=38141 Thu, 22 Nov 2007 21:44:14 GMT Despite decades of more-exacting science projecting Earth's warming climate, there remains large uncertainty about just how much warming will actually occur. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=37558 Science Environment Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=37558 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:28:10 GMT Five University of Washington undergraduates combing images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey have discovered more than 1,300 asteroids that had never been observed previously. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=37120 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=37120 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:07:34 GMT New research shows birds that inhabit urban areas can adapt to a much larger range of conditions than their rural cousins. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=36770 Science Environment Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=36770 Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:54:52 GMT University of Washington experts from the Applied Physics Laboratory and atmospheric sciences give their perspectives on this week's announcement that the ice extent minimum for 2007 in the Arctic Ocean was reached last weekend at a record-breaking low of 1.59 million square miles. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=36676 Science Environment Sandra Hines (206-543-2580) and Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=36676 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 20:43:55 GMT New research finds neutron carries a negative charge at its center and outer edge, with a positive charge in between. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=36620 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=36620 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:14:38 GMT Andrew Connolly, who recently arrived at the University of Washington as an associate professor of astronomy, spent the last year as technical lead for the development of Sky in Google Earth. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=36238 Science Technology Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=36238 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:12:46 GMT While some claim that 60 is the new 40, new research shows that 60-year-olds cannot keep up with 40-year-olds on Mount Everest, and suffer a sharply higher chance of dying if they do reach the summit. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=36048 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=36048 Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:03:07 GMT Traditional plow-based agricultural methods and the need to feed a rapidly growing world population are combining to deplete the Earth's soil supply, a UW study confirms. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=35903 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=35903 Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:59:17 GMT UW scientists plan to attach satellite tracking devices to the backs of six penguins then trace their movements using satellites and the Internet. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=35703 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=35703 Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:25:42 GMT Perhaps it was just a matter of sympathy, but tremors rippled the landscape of Vancouver Island, the westernmost part of British Columbia, in 2002 during a major Alaskan earthquake. Geoscientists at the University of Washington have found clear evidence that the two events were related. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=35733 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=35733 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:52:17 GMT NSF eliminates UW-backed site from consideration for national Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=35076 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=35076 Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:29:53 GMT Two researchers writing in American Scientist say that global warming has nothing to do with the decline of ice atop Mount Kilimanjaro, and using the mountain in northern Tanzania as a "poster child" for climate change is inaccurate. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=34106 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=34106 Mon, 11 Jun 2007 17:30:36 GMT Penguins have been spotted periodically in the wild in the Northern Hemisphere during the last 50 years. Two biologists now conclude they probably got so far from home aboard fishing boats, not by swimming. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=34021 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=34021 Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:50:59 GMT UW scientist's new book says we are wearing out the planet's soil and have few places left to find new fertile soil. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=32121 Science Environment Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=32121 Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:22:49 GMT Scientists puzzling over why organisms evolved aging as a strategy have found that allowing one individual to carry all the cellular damage inflicted over time, rather than dividing it between two organisms during reproduction, increases the chances that the individual's line will reproduce for many generations to come. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=31267 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=31267 Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:57:15 GMT Data collected in 2005 from Hurricane Rita is providing the first documented evidence that rapid intensity changes can be caused by clouds outside the wall of a hurricane's eye coming together to form a new eyewall. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=31083 Science Ivy Kupec ((305) 421-4704 ) and Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=31083 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:41:20 GMT New research shows African elephants are being slaughtered for their ivory at a rate unprecedented since an international convention banning ivory trade took effect in 1989. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=30951 Science Law and Policy Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=30951 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:20:04 GMT New research shows that in hawk moths, a four-winged insect active at low-light times of the day, an organ near the base of the antennae assists in flight control. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=30426 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=30426 Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:19:51 GMT Northwest climate scientists played key roles in a major new international study that shows climate change will have serious effects in the coming decades. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=30140 Science Sandra Hines (206-543-2580) and Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=30140 Fri, 02 Feb 2007 15:53:51 GMT Human preferences probably will play a major role in determining which other species survive in a changing world, and new research shows those preferences could be governed by subtle factors. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=30008 Science Bothell and Tacoma Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=30008 Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:35:54 GMT New measurements for three planets outside our solar system indicate their temperatures remain fairly constant -- and blazing hot -- from day to night, even though it is likely one side of each planet always faces its sun and the other is in permanent darkness. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=29397 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=29397 Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:00:00 GMT University of Washington researchers believe it is possible to detect gravitational waves coming from strange wispy structures called cosmic superstrings. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=29374 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=29374 Mon, 08 Jan 2007 08:00:00 GMT Astronomers have found evidence of a supermassive black hole at the heart of a dwarf elliptical galaxy about 54 million light years away from the Milky Way Galaxy where Earth resides. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=29275 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=29275 Sun, 07 Jan 2007 08:00:00 GMT Evidence from Stardust mission shows there was enough mixing in the early solar system to transport material from the sun's sizzling neighborhood and deposit it in icy deep-space comets. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=28836 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=28836 Thu, 14 Dec 2006 08:00:00 GMT UW team will lead $15 million Department of Energy project to study atomic nuclei. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=28635 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=28635 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 08:00:00 GMT Research shows water vapor at concentrations as much as twice what they should be in and around cirrus clouds, a finding that could alter some conclusions about climate change. A group of European and U.S. scientists is advocating a broad research effort to solve the puzzle. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=28575 Science Environment Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=28575 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 08:00:00 GMT It's time for the United States to have a national climate service -- an interagency partnership led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and charged with understanding climate dynamics, forecasts and impacts -- say six members of the University of Washington's Climate Impacts Group. Their views appear online this week in the early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=28457 Environment Sandra Hines (206-543-2580) and Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=28457 Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:00:00 GMT New University of Washington research suggests insects' ability to adapt to warmer temperatures carries an unexpected consequence -- more insects. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=27760 Science Environment Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=27760 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 08:00:00 GMT New research shows earthquake swarms can occur any place that is seismically active, not just near volcanoes and geothermal regions. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=27635 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=27635 Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:00:00 GMT New research suggests a gap of millions of years in the colonization of Earth's land by marine creatures might have been caused by a sharp drop in atmospheric oxygen. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=27608 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=27608 Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:00:00 GMT The idea that oil supplies are finite is one of seven myths about mineral resources that UW geologist Eric Cheney wants to dispel. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=27554 Science Business Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=27554 Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:00:00 GMT By the end of this century winter storms in the Northwest are likely to be much more pronounced, particularly west of the Cascades. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=27491 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=27491 Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:00:00 GMT For the first time a UW scientist has been granted the largest share of observation time on the Hubble Space Telescope for an entire year. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=27221 Science Technology Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=27221 Wed, 04 Oct 2006 08:00:00 GMT Western Washington's reputation as a soggy bastion for the web-footed is taking a beating this year, thanks to an unrelenting dry spell. And typically arid Eastern Washington is even more parched than usual. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=26557 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=26557 Thu, 07 Sep 2006 08:00:00 GMT New research suggests that Antarctica has been getting gradually warmer for the last 150 years, a trend not identifiable in the short meteorological records and masked at the end of the 20th century by large temperature variations. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=26515 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=26515 Tue, 05 Sep 2006 08:00:00 GMT Fast-warming climate appears to be triggering genetic changes in a species of fruit fly that is native to Europe and was introduced into North and South America about 25 years ago. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=26486 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=26486 Thu, 31 Aug 2006 08:00:00 GMT The Alps might have reached their zenith 6 million years ago and have been declining since. New research suggests the culprit was likely massive erosion, triggered by a sudden drop in the level of the Mediterranean Sea and then prolonged by a warmer, wetter climate. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=26206 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=26206 Tue, 15 Aug 2006 08:00:00 GMT Scientists have devised a way to use the fossil teeth of ancient bison as a tool to reconstruct historic climate and vegetation changes in America's breadbasket, the Great Plains. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=26103 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=26103 Mon, 07 Aug 2006 08:00:00 GMT A mixture of zinc oxide and cobalt, first formulated in 1780 as a pigment called cobalt green, appears capable of allowing electrons to be manipulated magnetically at room temperature without losing its magnetism. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=25984 Science Bill Cannon ((509) 375-3732) and Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=25984 Wed, 02 Aug 2006 08:00:00 GMT Researchers running computer simulations for four nearby systems that contain giant planets about the size of Jupiter have found one that could have formed an Earth-like planet with the right conditions to support life. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=25748 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=25748 Mon, 24 Jul 2006 08:00:00 GMT A breakthrough in the calculations needed to understand the strong nuclear force that comes from the motion of quarks and gluons is allowing scientists to begin finding answers to some profound questions. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=25496 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=25496 Tue, 11 Jul 2006 08:00:00 GMT UW officials have learned the National Science Foundation has reversed an earlier decision and will support university efforts to draft a conceptual design proposal for a Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory in the Washington Cascades. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=25096 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=25096 Mon, 19 Jun 2006 08:00:00 GMT A new satellite that last week began gathering data from the Earth's atmosphere could be a key tool in unraveling just how much effect the reflectivity of clouds and tiny particles called aerosols are having on the planet's changing climate. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=24978 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=24978 Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:00:00 GMT New research shows organisms called eukaryotes, ancestors of the animal and plant species present today, existed 50 million to 100 million years before an ice age that created 'Snowball Earth' some 2.3 billion years ago. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=24861 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=24861 Tue, 06 Jun 2006 08:00:00 GMT New research shows that in the caterpillar of the tobacco hawkmoth, tissues called imaginal discs, which give rise to structures such as the legs and eyes, form and grow despite severe starvation unless a substance called juvenile hormone is present. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=24811 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=24811 Thu, 01 Jun 2006 08:00:00 GMT Researchers examining more than 25 years of satellite data find that each hemisphere's jet stream has moved toward the pole, a development that could widen the tropics and expand some of the world's driest regions. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=24603 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=24603 Thu, 25 May 2006 08:00:00 GMT New research disputes a notion held by many geologists and seismologists that the Kamchatka Peninsula on Russia's east coast actually is on the North America plate, the same tectonic plate as the mainland United States. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=24084 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=24084 Tue, 02 May 2006 08:00:00 GMT New University of Washington research shows that a gene needed for development of insects that undergo complete metamorphosis also is key for the maturation of insects that have incomplete metamorphosis. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=23970 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=23970 Wed, 26 Apr 2006 08:00:00 GMT UW scientists have developed a screening process to detect enzyme deficiencies in newborns that could allow treatment of devastating conditions such as Tay-Sachs and Gaucher syndromes before too much damage has been done. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=23377 Science Health and Medicine Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=23377 Tue, 28 Mar 2006 08:00:00 GMT Scientists analyzing recent samples of comet dust have discovered minerals that formed near the sun or other stars, far from where comets formed. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=23093 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=23093 Mon, 13 Mar 2006 08:00:00 GMT Chronic oil pollution, a long-standing problem along a 4,200-mile stretch of coast from southern Brazil to northern Argentina, is taking a toll on Magellanic penguins and other seabirds. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=22254 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=22254 Tue, 31 Jan 2006 08:00:00 GMT New research indicates sediment buildup in tectonic plate deformations could play a major role in determining the severity of subduction zone earthquakes. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=22211 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=22211 Mon, 30 Jan 2006 08:00:00 GMT The Stardust comet sample return canister is opened in Houston, revealing evidence that the mission is "a phenomenal success" http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=21947 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=21947 Wed, 18 Jan 2006 08:00:00 GMT Stardust parachutes safely into a Utah desert, capping a historic NASA mission to a comet led by a University of Washington professor. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=21858 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=21858 Sun, 15 Jan 2006 08:00:00 GMT The UW-led mission to capture particles from comet Wild 2 is to return to Earth on Jan. 15. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=21550 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=21550 Tue, 03 Jan 2006 08:00:00 GMT New UW research suggests mercury can be carried long distances in the atmosphere, combining with other chemicals to form compounds that are much more water-soluble and so more easily removed from the air in rainfall. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=13977 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=13977 Wed, 07 Dec 2005 08:00:00 GMT New UW research indicates scientists studying the effects of carbon on climate warming are very likely underestimating, by a vast amount, how much soil carbon is available in the high Arctic to be released into the atmosphere. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=13908 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=13908 Mon, 05 Dec 2005 08:00:00 GMT In a new book, a University of Washington paleontologist puts forth an expanded "tree of life," or biological classification system, to account for a variety of life forms that would not fit in the current system. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=13187 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=13187 Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:00:00 GMT The level and breadth of interest in the subject of climate change and its effects in Washington state was evidenced Thursday as a capacity crowd of more than 600 attended "The Future Ain't What It Used to Be: Planning for Climate Disruption," sponsored by King County and various state agencies. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=13178 Science Sandra Hines (206-543-2580) and Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=13178 Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:00:00 GMT UW biologists studying the physiology of the common fruit fly have discovered an organ that assesses the size of the juvenile and signals when it has reached a critical weight to begin metamorphosis into an adult. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=13019 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=13019 Mon, 24 Oct 2005 08:00:00 GMT Physicists who work with a concept called string theory envision our universe as an eerie place with at least nine spatial dimensions, six of them hidden from us, perhaps curled up in some way so they are undetectable. The big question is why we experience the universe in only three spatial dimensions instead of four, or six, or nine. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=12361 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=12361 Wed, 28 Sep 2005 08:00:00 GMT Newly hatched magellanic penguin chicks in breeding grounds with a large number of human visitors show a significant spike in levels of a stress-related hormone compared to chicks hatched in areas not visited by humans. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=12331 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=12331 Mon, 26 Sep 2005 08:00:00 GMT Using a water droplet 1 trillion times smaller than a liter of club soda as a sort of nanoscale test tube, a University of Washington scientist is conducting chemical analysis and experimentation at unprecedented tiny scales. The new approach makes it easier to get a wide range of information about a cell. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=11829 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=11829 Mon, 29 Aug 2005 08:00:00 GMT Contrary to popular belief, the most serious impact of climate change in the next century likely will be in the tropics, says a group of researchers headed by a University of Washington ecologist. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=11632 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=11632 Thu, 11 Aug 2005 08:00:00 GMT A research team that includes a UW atmospheric scientist next week is to begin one of the largest hurricane research projects ever undertaken to better understand dramatic, rapid changes in tropical storm intensity that have baffled forecasters for years. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=11548 Science Ivy Kupec ((305) 421-4704 ) and Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=11548 Mon, 08 Aug 2005 08:00:00 GMT A new model offers plausible scenarios for how oxygen came to dominate Earth's atmosphere 2.4 billion years ago, and why it took at least 300 million years after bacterial photosynthesis started producing oxygen in large quantities. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=11549 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=11549 Mon, 08 Aug 2005 08:00:00 GMT National Science Foundation turns down a proposal to build an underground science and engineering laboratory in the Washington Cascades. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=11294 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=11294 Thu, 21 Jul 2005 08:00:00 GMT Stories of two-headed serpents and epic battles between Thunderbird and Whale, common among Northwest native peoples, have their root in the region's seismic history. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=11107 Science Social Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=11107 Mon, 11 Jul 2005 08:00:00 GMT New UW research shows that, in some area, nitrogen oxides from the soil could play a much larger role in seasonal air pollution than previously believed. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=10535 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=10535 Mon, 06 Jun 2005 08:00:00 GMT UW expert says a bill in the U.S. Senate to privatize most weather forecasting would seriously damage the quality of the nation's weather information. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=10211 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=10211 Mon, 16 May 2005 08:00:00 GMT Earth's climate is being changed substantially by a buildup of atmospheric greenhouse gases, but a group of leading climate scientists contends the overall impact is not understood as well as it should be because data are too scarce on how much energy the planet reflects into space. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=10043 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=10043 Thu, 05 May 2005 08:00:00 GMT The tsunami that devastated south Asia coastlines and killed more than 200,000 people last December is a powerful reminder of just how dangerous those waves can be to humans, and a University of Washington scientist says it should be used to help people prepare for the next one. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=9818 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=9818 Tue, 26 Apr 2005 08:00:00 GMT UW researchers have devised a method that combines DNA sampling and mathematical modeling to find out how accurately patterns of methylation, a process that can control how genes are expressed, are copied during DNA replication. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=9667 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=9667 Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:00:00 GMT New University of Washington research suggests that a sharp decline in atmospheric oxygen levels was likely a major reason for both the elevated extinction rates and the very slow recovery associated with the biggest mass extinction in Earth history. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=9592 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=9592 Thu, 14 Apr 2005 08:00:00 GMT Researchers use a thousand-meter ice core to show that a key section of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet probably never contained as much ice as scientists originally thought it did. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=9129 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=9129 Wed, 23 Mar 2005 08:00:00 GMT Physicists using string theory have determined that the fluid of a black hole in 10 dimensions, similar to a quark-gluon plasma in three spatial dimensions, could be the lowest-viscosity fluid. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=9056 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=9056 Mon, 21 Mar 2005 08:00:00 GMT An international team of researchers using data from powerful computer models and observations from the Hubble Space Telescope has found evidence of dark energy right in our own cosmic neighborhood. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=8972 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=8972 Wed, 16 Mar 2005 08:00:00 GMT Two University of Washington physicists using a quantum mechanics technique say scientists might have already succeeded in creating a state of matter non-existent since a fraction of a second after the big bang. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=8957 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=8957 Tue, 15 Mar 2005 08:00:00 GMT It has long been thought that cells that regenerate tissue do so by regressing to a developmentally younger state. Now two University of Washington researchers have demonstrated that cells can regenerate without becoming "younger." http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=8506 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=8506 Mon, 28 Feb 2005 08:00:00 GMT First in new lecture series scheduled for March 10. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=8299 Science Campus Community Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=8299 Tue, 15 Feb 2005 08:00:00 GMT Warm winter rains that have curtailed the winter ski season in the Washington Cascades could also mean water shortages this summer. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=7873 Science Sandra Hines (206-543-2580) and Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=7873 Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:53:00 GMT University of Washington officials have developed conceptual architectural drawings of the entry, or "portal," for the proposed Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory-Cascades. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=7833 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=7833 Tue, 25 Jan 2005 08:00:00 GMT For the last three years evidence has been building that the impact of a comet or asteroid triggered the biggest mass extinction in Earth history, but new research from a team headed by a University of Washington scientist disputes that notion. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=7601 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=7601 Thu, 20 Jan 2005 08:00:00 GMT Mount Pinatubo erupted with devastating force in June 1991, and now the Philippines volcano is proving to be an ideal laboratory for studying the "hydrologic aftermath" of a volcanic eruption. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=7328 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=7328 Wed, 05 Jan 2005 08:00:00 GMT The University of Washington has established a special office to support further development of the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory-Cascades. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=7045 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=7045 Wed, 15 Dec 2004 08:00:00 GMT Ice dams across the deepest gorge on Earth created some of the highest-elevation lakes in history. New research shows these lakes caused some of the biggest floods in Earth history when they broke through their ice dams. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=6906 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=6906 Mon, 13 Dec 2004 08:00:00 GMT A new interpretation for satellite data published earlier this year raised controversy when its authors claimed it eliminated doubt that the lower atmosphere is warming as fast as the Earth's surface. Now, another study, using data from other scientists, has validated the original finding. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=6657 Science Stephanie Kenitzer (425-432-2192) and Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=6657 Mon, 29 Nov 2004 08:00:00 GMT A new means of propelling spacecraft being developed at the University of Washington could dramatically cut the time needed for astronauts to travel to and from Mars and could make humans a permanent fixture in space. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5817 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5817 Thu, 14 Oct 2004 08:00:00 GMT A University of Washington chemist whose work focuses on developing new inorganic semiconductor materials is among 57 researchers who this month received Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5654 Science Campus Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5654 Wed, 29 Sep 2004 08:00:00 GMT Substantially more men than women favor routine paternity testing when a baby is born, but researchers are surprised the percentage of men favoring such testing wasn't higher. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5645 Science Health and Medicine Social Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5645 Tue, 28 Sep 2004 08:00:00 GMT Despite a long-standing international ban on ivory trade, African elephants continue to be killed in large numbers. Now a team headed by a University of Washington biologist has devised a new means of determining the geographic origin of ivory that could help slow elephant poaching. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5636 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5636 Mon, 27 Sep 2004 08:00:00 GMT Seismic activity at Mount St. Helens has changed significantly during the past 24 hours, prompting UW and federal scientists to issue a Notice of Volcanic Unrest. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5625 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5625 Sun, 26 Sep 2004 08:00:00 GMT Hundreds of small earthquakes have occurred at Mount St. Helens since early yesterday. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5614 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5614 Fri, 24 Sep 2004 08:00:00 GMT New research from Friday Harbor Laboratories shows that common assumptions about sea urchin reproduction don't hold true for all species of the invertebrate creature. The work could lead to better understanding of human reproduction. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5498 Science Health and Medicine Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5498 Mon, 13 Sep 2004 08:00:00 GMT A new national research center is being established at the University of Washington with the aim of finding easier, more powerful and more environmentally friendly ways of manipulating the strong chemical bonds found in most materials, from petroleum products to pharmaceuticals and biological molecules. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5404 Science Campus Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5404 Tue, 31 Aug 2004 08:00:00 GMT The area burned by wildfires in 11 Western states could double by the end of the century if summer climate warms by slightly more than a degree and a half, say researchers with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and Pacific Northwest Climate Impacts Group at the University of Washington. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5392 Science Sandra Hines (206-543-2580) and Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5392 Mon, 30 Aug 2004 08:00:00 GMT A songbird species known as the Townsend's warbler has been steadily displacing its more timid sister species, the hermit warbler, from Western forests for thousands of years. New research suggests substantially higher androgen levels is the reason. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5364 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5364 Tue, 24 Aug 2004 08:00:00 GMT Siberian forest fire smoke pushed Seattle's air quality past federal environmental limits on one day in 2003, and a University of Washington, Bothell, scientist says rapidly changing climate in northern latitudes makes it likely such fires will have greater effects all along the West Coast. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5311 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5311 Tue, 17 Aug 2004 08:00:00 GMT Hospital patients increasingly face tenacious bacterial infections because microbes acquire resistance to commonly prescribed antibiotics. A new study shows a recent strategy designed to slow antibiotic resistance -- alternating the most commonly used antibiotics in hospitals -- probably won't work. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5268 Science Health and Medicine Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5268 Mon, 09 Aug 2004 08:00:00 GMT Two major physics breakthroughs in the last decade are the discovery that neutrinos have mass and that universe expansion is accelerating. Three physicists are suggesting the two discoveries are integrally linked through one of the strangest features of the universe: dark energy. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5166 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5166 Tue, 27 Jul 2004 08:00:00 GMT On two occasions, separated by four years and thousands of miles and in very different conditions, raindrops were measured at sizes similar to or greater than the largest ever recorded. The largest ones were at least 8 millimeters in diameter and were possibly a centimeter, about four-tenths of an inch or a quarter the size of a golf ball. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5018 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5018 Tue, 13 Jul 2004 08:00:00 GMT When a magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck western Washington in 2001, hundreds of brick chimneys in two neighborhoods were seriously damaged or toppled. New research suggests the shaking in these areas might have been intensified by the Seattle fault, even though it was not the source of the earthquake. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4790 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4790 Tue, 22 Jun 2004 08:00:00 GMT Scientists expected the Stardust spacecraft to send back pictures of comet Wild 2 showing a chunk of rock and ice coated with dust, obscuring any interesting features. Instead, they got images filled with sharply defined mesas, craters, pinnacles and canyons. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4744 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4744 Thu, 17 Jun 2004 08:00:00 GMT New research shows the tectonic stresses that have left dips and folds deep in the Earth's crust in an area called the Seattle uplift have done the same thing at the surface. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4476 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4476 Tue, 01 Jun 2004 08:00:00 GMT University of Washington climate scientists say a much-publicized new action thriller on the perils of climate change misses the scientific mark. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4469 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4469 Fri, 28 May 2004 08:00:00 GMT Frank Drake, author of "The Drake Equation," will speak in June about the current status of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4375 Science Campus Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4375 Wed, 19 May 2004 08:00:00 GMT A preliminary plan for a national science and engineering laboratory deep underground in the Cascade Mountains near Leavenworth is being unveiled this week as a starting point for a formal proposal. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4365 Science Rob Harrill (206-543-2580) and Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4365 Mon, 17 May 2004 08:00:00 GMT A slow earthquake has apparently begun under western Washington, and UW scientists believe it will provide insight into stresses that eventually will lead to the region's next major earthquake. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4333 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4333 Thu, 13 May 2004 08:00:00 GMT New research led by a University of Washington biologist shows there are at least two circadian clocks in the mammal brain, one that sticks strictly to an internal schedule and another that can be altered by external influences such as light and dark. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4312 Science Health and Medicine Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4312 Wed, 12 May 2004 08:00:00 GMT New UW research shows Magellanic penguin eggs come with extra-thick shells to withstand being laid on hard surfaces and survive being kicked around during penguin fights. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4281 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4281 Mon, 10 May 2004 08:00:00 GMT University of Washington researchers using satellite data in a new and more accurate way show that for more than two decades the troposphere has been warming faster than the Earth's surface. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4253 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4253 Wed, 05 May 2004 08:00:00 GMT A miniseries featuring a mammoth earthquake and a fictional University of Washington seismologist is to air May 2 and 3. Real UW earthquake experts say the production appears to have very little in common with reality. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4125 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=4125 Mon, 26 Apr 2004 08:00:00 GMT Developing a clear understanding of how to exploit emerging information from genome research is the first step in developing effective, safe and affordable drugs that can combat parasite-caused diseases such as malaria, according to Pradipsinh Rathod, a University of Washington chemistry professor. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=7644 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=7644 Sun, 18 Apr 2004 08:00:00 GMT Two University of Washington physicists, responding to a new National Science Foundation plan, are preparing a proposal to place a Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory beneath the Cascade Mountains in Eastern Washington. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3905 Science Rob Harrill (206-543-2580) and Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3905 Fri, 02 Apr 2004 08:00:00 GMT Join a dozen "EarthDialers" starting today at http://planetary.org/mars/earthdial as the modern marvel of the webcam merges with the ancient technology for marking time, the sundial. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3555 Science Sandra Hines (206-543-2580) and Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3555 Tue, 02 Mar 2004 08:00:00 GMT Pollution generated in one country frequently invades the air of another. An international relations specialist at the University of Washington, Bothell, suggests that effective answers might require efforts on the regional and local levels http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1480 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1480 Fri, 13 Feb 2004 08:00:00 GMT Increasing evidence clearly documents that air pollution from Asia can get caught up in an express transport system and cross the Pacific Ocean to the West Coast of North America in a matter of days. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1481 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1481 Fri, 13 Feb 2004 08:00:00 GMT Kavandi was awarded a doctorate in chemistry in 1990 for her work with pressure-sensitive coatings to aid in studying air pressure on surfaces such as airplane wings. She subsequently joined the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, logging 33 days in space and 13.1 million miles traveled in 535 Earth orbits. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1485 Campus Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1485 Thu, 12 Feb 2004 08:00:00 GMT As the publication of scientific research papers shifts more and more from print to electronic distribution, universities often buy site licenses that provide campuswide online access to a variety of journals, which cuts publishers' production costs and is more convenient for readers. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1401 Science Health and Medicine Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1401 Tue, 10 Feb 2004 08:00:00 GMT After a nearly five-year chase, the Stardust spacecraft will finally meet comet Wild 2 on the day after New Year's. It's a moment Donald Brownlee has anticipated for nearly 25 years. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1457 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1457 Fri, 19 Dec 2003 08:00:00 GMT After a nearly five-year chase, the Stardust spacecraft will finally meet comet Wild 2 on the day after New Year's. It's a moment Donald Brownlee has anticipated for nearly 25 years. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2263 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2263 Fri, 19 Dec 2003 08:00:00 GMT Astrobiologists disagree about whether advanced life is common or rare in our universe. But new research suggests that one thing is pretty certain -- if an Earthlike world with significant water is needed for advanced life to evolve, there could be many candidates. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2252 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2252 Wed, 10 Dec 2003 08:00:00 GMT Woodruff Sullivan, a University of Washington astronomy professor, is teaming up with television personality Bill Nye, "the science guy," and The Planetary Society on EarthDial, a project to get schools, community organizations and individuals around the world to build their own sundials and display them on the Internet using 24-hour webcams. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3434 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3434 Thu, 20 Nov 2003 08:00:00 GMT It's a long-held tenet of avian biology that songbirds have just two types of a key reproduction hormone, gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH), and only one actually triggers a seasonal "puberty" each spring in preparation for reproduction. But the new research shows a third form of the hormone, called lamprey GnRH-III-like hormone because it was first identified in lampreys, is also present in songbird brains. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2243 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2243 Mon, 17 Nov 2003 08:00:00 GMT Large, deep earthquakes have shaken the central Puget Sound region several times during the last century, and nerves have been rattled even more often by less-powerful deep quakes. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2242 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2242 Thu, 13 Nov 2003 08:00:00 GMT A University of Washington paleontologist theorizes that low oxygen and repeated short but substantial temperature increases because of greenhouse warming sparked two major mass-extinction events, one of which eradicated 90 percent of all species on Earth. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2205 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2205 Fri, 31 Oct 2003 08:00:00 GMT Evidence has mounted for nearly 20 years that a great earthquake ripped the seafloor off the Washington coast in 1700, long before there were any written records in the region. Now, a newly authenticated record of a fatal shipwreck in Japan has added an intriguing clue. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2206 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2206 Fri, 31 Oct 2003 08:00:00 GMT The year was 1715, and King George I of England enacted laws in an effort to protect salmon runs throughout Great Britain.Today few salmon ply British waterways, the victims of overfishing, degraded habitat, harnessing water power for industry, and misguided use of hatcheries to restore salmon runs, which ultimately hurt more than helped. Strikingly, much the same scenario began playing out 100 years later in the rivers of northeastern North America. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3426 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3426 Mon, 06 Oct 2003 08:00:00 GMT Conventional wisdom says a river's flood plain builds bit by bit, flood after flood, whenever the stream overflows its banks and deposits new sediment on the flood plain. But for some vast waterways in South America's Amazon River basin, that wisdom doesn't hold water. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3422 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3422 Wed, 01 Oct 2003 08:00:00 GMT A four-member panel will discuss how seismic faults are located, what faults look like above and below ground, the types of earthquakes the faults have produced and will produce in the future, and where scientists next will search for faults. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2185 Science Campus Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2185 Wed, 01 Oct 2003 08:00:00 GMT Scientists will present cutting-edge geological research and discuss geology topics of specific interest in the Pacific Northwest when the Geological Society of America holds its annual meeting in Seattle in November. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2182 Science Campus Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2182 Tue, 23 Sep 2003 08:00:00 GMT It's been a hot summer in Washington, but it's a dry heat. Literally. The state is experiencing its driest summer since at least 1900, with local rain amounts from 70 percent to 85 percent below normal. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2175 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2175 Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:00:00 GMT Researchers studying physical and chemical processes at the smallest scales, smaller even than the width of a human hair, have found that fluid circulating in a microscopic whirlpool can reach radial acceleration more than a million times greater than gravity, or 1 million Gs. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2169 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2169 Wed, 03 Sep 2003 08:00:00 GMT In late August and early September, the red planet will appear closer and brighter than it has throughout all of recorded history, and astronomers with the University of Washington and the Seattle Astronomical Society will provide front-row seats for the public during a special "Mars Party" on Sept. 3. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2158 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2158 Thu, 14 Aug 2003 08:00:00 GMT Just in time for the American Association of State Climatologists meeting next week in Portland, the state of Washington has someone fulfilling those duties for the first time since the late 1990s. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2156 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2156 Wed, 30 Jul 2003 08:00:00 GMT The group that proposed creating a National Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory at a closed South Dakota gold mine has completed a detailed engineering plan for the conversion, replacing the initial proposal sent to the National Science Foundation two years ago. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2152 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2152 Fri, 18 Jul 2003 08:00:00 GMT The relationship between seismic activity and hydrology is not well understood and is ripe for serious examination by scientists from the two disciplines, said David Montgomery, a University of Washington professor of Earth and space sciences. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2143 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2143 Thu, 26 Jun 2003 08:00:00 GMT Atmospheric aerosols, airborne particles that reflect the sun's heat away from Earth and into space, are in air pollution, in plumes of smoke from forest fires and in ash clouds from erupting volcanoes. A new study says the cooling effect of man-made aerosols could throw a monkey wrench into the current understanding of climate change. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5395 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5395 Thu, 15 May 2003 08:00:00 GMT When Gerald A. Miller first saw the experimental results from the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, he was pretty sure they couldn't be right. If they were, it meant that some long-held notions about the proton, a primary building block of atoms, were wrong. But in time, the findings proved to be right, and led physicists to the conclusion that protons aren't always spherically shaped, like a basketball. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3366 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3366 Sat, 05 Apr 2003 08:00:00 GMT University of Washington astronomy department's annual open house http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2096 Science Campus Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2096 Wed, 02 Apr 2003 08:00:00 GMT At this moment, parts of Washington and British Columbia are having an earthquake, but it is a slow-moving temblor that can't be felt and won't cause any injuries or damage. Still, by the end of the event, which already has lasted more than two weeks, it is likely to have released about as much energy as the Nisqually earthquake did in February 2001. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2087 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2087 Thu, 13 Mar 2003 08:00:00 GMT A warming climate the last 50 years has, through early melting, relentlessly reduced the water content of the Pacific Northwest's springtime snowpack, straining the supply of water for drinking, irrigation and other uses during the region's typically dry summers, new research at the University of Washington has found. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2048 Science Sandra Hines (206-543-2580) and Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2048 Thu, 06 Feb 2003 08:00:00 GMT Glitzy tools such as the Hubble Space Telescope let modern astronomers peer deeper and deeper into space, billions of light years from Earth. But it's a small special-purpose telescope on a New Mexico mountaintop that is shedding new light on what lies in our celestial neighborhood. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2035 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2035 Wed, 08 Jan 2003 08:00:00 GMT http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2032 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2032 Tue, 07 Jan 2003 08:00:00 GMT When members of two species compete directly with each other, scientists believe the one that rolls with the evolutionary punches and adapts most quickly has the upper hand. But new evidence suggests that in relationships that benefit both species, the one that evolves more slowly has the advantage. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2545 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2545 Mon, 30 Dec 2002 08:00:00 GMT Jolly Old St. Nick depends on his team of reindeer to complete his Christmas rounds on time. But new research indicates that, because of the world's changing climate, Santa might want to start thinking of new ways to power his sleigh. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5940 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=5940 Wed, 18 Dec 2002 08:00:00 GMT For several years it has been widely believed that increased ultraviolet-B radiation because of thinning of atmospheric ozone was a major culprit in deforming amphibian offspring and dwindling populations. Now two new studies cast serious doubt on that assumption, and the lead author of one says the belief could have had negative impacts on efforts to save amphibians. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2531 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2531 Thu, 05 Dec 2002 08:00:00 GMT Margon, a popular astronomy lecturer for more than 20 years at the UW, will discuss astronomical discoveries and achievements of the Hubble Space Telescope, emphasizing how the observatory has helped scientists understand the origins of stars, galaxies and the universe itself. His talk will include many of the stirring images captured by Hubble. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2529 Science Campus Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2529 Wed, 04 Dec 2002 08:00:00 GMT New research suggests that Jupiter-like planets form in as little as a few hundred years. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3497 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3497 Thu, 28 Nov 2002 08:00:00 GMT It will be a moment tinged with history when the Stardust spacecraft makes an encounter with Asteroid 5535 Annefrank this weekend. The flyby will test many of the systems and procedures to be used when Stardust makes its encounter with comet Wild 2 in little more than a year. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2506 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2506 Mon, 28 Oct 2002 08:00:00 GMT A free, public lecture on the search for extraterrestrial life http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2493 Science Campus Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2493 Fri, 11 Oct 2002 08:00:00 GMT It is virtually impossible for a river or stream to first stop its flow and then reverse course. But an ice stream in Antarctica has done precisely that during the last 2― centuries, and scientists are trying to figure out exactly why. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2487 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2487 Wed, 02 Oct 2002 08:00:00 GMT http://admin.urel.washington.edu/newsinfo/archives/2002archive/08-02archive/k081902b.html http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2469 Science Campus Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2469 Mon, 19 Aug 2002 08:00:00 GMT The dust has been piling up in Earth's attic for billions of years, and now some scientists want to sift through the accumulation to see if they can find evidence of the planet's earliest life. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3216 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3216 Mon, 22 Jul 2002 08:00:00 GMT El Niņo is coming! El Niņo is coming! But this time, the climate anomaly that usually brings warmer and drier winters to the Pacific Northwest might not have such a noticeable impact, say two University of Washington climatologists http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2428 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2428 Mon, 15 Jul 2002 08:00:00 GMT The University of Washington has won a four-year, $2.2 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for programs to support undergraduate biology education, to help prepare future faculty and to develop K-12 outreach programs. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2425 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2425 Tue, 09 Jul 2002 08:00:00 GMT A group of anti-cancer agents that once produced dismal results in clinical trials could once again be a promising tool in fighting the deadly disease, thanks to research by a team of chemists at the University of Washington and in Germany. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2414 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2414 Mon, 10 Jun 2002 08:00:00 GMT As the world's spiraling population creates greater demand for resources, the southern Atlantic Ocean is becoming a more popular spot to consider for fishing and oil exploration. But University of Washington zoologists and a Falkland Islands researcher have found that such interest could prove detrimental to Falklands penguins, whose numbers already could be declining. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2402 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2402 Mon, 03 Jun 2002 08:00:00 GMT Craig Hogan, the divisional dean of sciences in the University of Washington's College of Arts and Sciences, has been named the university's vice provost for research. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2380 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2380 Thu, 02 May 2002 08:00:00 GMT The National Science Foundation said today it has tentatively chosen the University of Washington as the host of one of six new science and technology centers, a designation that would place the university firmly at the leading edge of research to develop groundbreaking information technology. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=7672 Science Campus Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=7672 Tue, 30 Apr 2002 08:00:00 GMT The effort to create a National Underground Science Laboratory received a major endorsement during the weekend from the National Research Council's Committee on the Physics of the Universe. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=7662 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=7662 Mon, 22 Apr 2002 08:00:00 GMT http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2366 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2366 Thu, 21 Mar 2002 08:00:00 GMT The astronomy open house this year occurs on International Astronomy Day and comes during a major planetary conjunction. Five planets -- Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, Venus and Mercury -- will line up in the western sky, with a crescent moon supplying illumination. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2357 Science Campus Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2357 Mon, 18 Mar 2002 08:00:00 GMT Scientists working at huge underground laboratories in Japan and Canada have made major strides in understanding neutrinos during the last three years. Now a team working with a particle accelerator at the University of Washington has added another significant finding, determining with the greatest precision yet just how many energetic neutrinos are generated in the sun's nuclear furnace. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3448 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3448 Thu, 28 Feb 2002 08:00:00 GMT Earth's most severe mass extinction - an event 250 million years ago that wiped out 90 percent of all marine species and 70 percent of land vertebrates - was triggered by a collision with a comet or asteroid, according to new findings by a team led by a University of Washington scientist. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3131 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3131 Fri, 22 Feb 2002 08:00:00 GMT Just about anyone who has flown knows the sensation of climbing through smog and bursting into bright, clear air. And once you're there, the air generally stays clear no matter how high you go. But a University of Washington researcher has found it doesn't always work that way. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2323 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2323 Wed, 20 Feb 2002 08:00:00 GMT For sale: Convair 580, flown by University of Washington researchers for global atmospheric analysis, used to study smoke from burning oil wells in Kuwait, double-check satellite measurements of clouds over the tropical Pacific and measure properties of rain in the Pacific Northwest. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3442 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3442 Thu, 07 Feb 2002 08:00:00 GMT Seismologist who described likely Cascadia subduction earthquake to speak http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2310 Science Campus Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2310 Tue, 05 Feb 2002 08:00:00 GMT Tom Murphy plans to spend much of the next five years using the Apache Point telescope in New Mexico as a tape measure 239,000 miles long - give or take a millimeter. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3440 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3440 Mon, 14 Jan 2002 08:00:00 GMT Another El Niņo could be brewing in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. If it is, Pacific Northwest residents can expect generally warmer, drier weather next fall and winter, University of Washington scientists say. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2304 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2304 Thu, 10 Jan 2002 08:00:00 GMT Recent research at the University of Washington has found that a series of land-use decisions dating from the 1930s, from road building and streamside logging to dam construction, led to sedimentation that has made the Skokomish perhaps the most flood-prone river in the state. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3438 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3438 Mon, 07 Jan 2002 08:00:00 GMT During the last 40 years, chemists have developed an understanding of how an electron transfers from one group to another to create new compounds. Now a team of University of Washington chemists has found that the same ideas apply to transferring a hydrogen atom -- an electron and a proton together. That understanding could prove important to scientists trying to devise new classes of chemical reactions. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2763 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2763 Thu, 20 Dec 2001 08:00:00 GMT Scientists watched closely last spring as a haze of pollution, which had been tracked by satellite as it crossed the Pacific Ocean, settled over a large swath of North America from Calgary, Canada, into Arizona. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2750 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2750 Tue, 11 Dec 2001 08:00:00 GMT The Pacific Northwest's fabled rainy season typically starts in November. This year Cliff Mass is counting on the storms to give up some of their secrets and help researchers develop more precise forecasts for precipitation and flooding. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3197 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3197 Sat, 17 Nov 2001 08:00:00 GMT Expert briefing for reporters on the impacts of climate change on the Pacific Northwest http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2659 Science Sandra Hines (206-543-2580) and Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2659 Thu, 01 Nov 2001 08:00:00 GMT Coastal Washington and Oregon are being left to the mercy of Mother Nature because federal Doppler radar installations don't provide meteorologists with enough information to come up with more accurate short-term forecasts, a University of Washington scientist says. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2627 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2627 Mon, 10 Sep 2001 08:00:00 GMT http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3267 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3267 Thu, 09 Aug 2001 08:00:00 GMT An astrobiology conference is being hosted by the University of Washington's Center for Astrobiology and Early Evolution. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2462 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2462 Tue, 31 Jul 2001 08:00:00 GMT Some Seattle-area middle school and high school students and their science teachers soon will be assisting University of Washington scientists in a major effort aimed at solving one of the most vexing puzzles in physics. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2458 Science Community Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2458 Fri, 27 Jul 2001 08:00:00 GMT The Arctic Oscillation has been linked to wide-ranging climate effects in the Northern Hemisphere, but new evidence shows that in recent decades it has been the key in preventing freezing temperatures from extending as far south as they had previously. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3187 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3187 Thu, 05 Jul 2001 08:00:00 GMT A giant "corpse flower," native to the Indonesian island of Sumatra, is inching closer to blooming in the University of Washington botany greenhouse. The event is expected to occur within the next several days. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3265 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3265 Sun, 01 Jul 2001 08:00:00 GMT University of Washington researchers on Monday will discuss the first scientific results from Canada's Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) -- findings that will bolster the understanding of neutrinos from the sun, of the sun itself and of the effect of neutrinos on the evolution of the universe. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2439 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2439 Fri, 15 Jun 2001 08:00:00 GMT As the Earth's average temperature has risen in the last half-century with the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, many scientists have come to see clouds as the biggest puzzle in interpreting the planet's changing climate picture because they reflect so much of the sun's heat into space. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2413 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2413 Thu, 14 Jun 2001 08:00:00 GMT For years, scientists have known that Eurasian weather turns on the whim of a climate phenomenon called the North Atlantic oscillation. But two University of Washington researchers contend that the condition is just a part of a hemisphere-wide cycle they call the Arctic oscillation, which also has far-reaching impact in North America. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3261 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3261 Fri, 01 Jun 2001 08:00:00 GMT Like a collage of photographs showing a human being from infancy to old age, a striking new picture unveiled today by a University of Washington astronomer shows various stages in the life cycle of stars, all occurring at one time. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3263 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3263 Fri, 01 Jun 2001 08:00:00 GMT Chemicals trapped in ancient glacial or polar ice can move substantial distances within the ice, according to new evidence from University of Washington researchers. That means past analyses of historic climate changes, gleaned from ice core samples, might not be entirely accurate. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3164 Science Sandra Hines (206-543-2580) and Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3164 Wed, 30 May 2001 08:00:00 GMT Scientists trying to replicate conditions that existed in the first microsecond after the Big Bang have discovered that gold ions ramming each other at nearly the speed of light produce a surprisingly powerful but unexpectedly brief explosion. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2343 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2343 Mon, 30 Apr 2001 08:00:00 GMT Scientists know that atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide have risen sharply in recent years, but a study released today in Paris reports a surprising and dramatic increase in the most important greenhouse gas -- water vapor -- during the last half-century. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2341 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2341 Tue, 24 Apr 2001 08:00:00 GMT The United States seriously lags behind England and Germany when it comes to computer-driven climate research, and a University of Washington scientist says it is time to take dramatic steps toward leadership in the field. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2339 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2339 Thu, 19 Apr 2001 08:00:00 GMT Third annual University of Washington astronomy department open house http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2324 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2324 Wed, 11 Apr 2001 08:00:00 GMT While the Puget Sound region was being shaken by the magnitude 6.8 Nisqually earthquake, George Thomas and his University of Washington team were preparing for the next temblor - and the one after that. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2282 Science Community Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2282 Tue, 20 Mar 2001 08:00:00 GMT The University of Washington's research into understanding and finding life in the universe received a major boost today with a multimillion-dollar grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and membership in NASA's Astrobiology Institute. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2283 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2283 Tue, 20 Mar 2001 08:00:00 GMT The ground in the Puget Sound region didn't just shake during the magnitude 6.8 Nisqually earthquake, it moved -- literally. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2278 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2278 Fri, 16 Mar 2001 08:00:00 GMT The Puget Sound region is being plagued by rumors that another major earthquake is imminent, but University of Washington scientists say the rumors are being fueled by people who have no scientific basis for their far-fetched claims. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2271 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2271 Tue, 06 Mar 2001 08:00:00 GMT A committee of leading physicists today advocated the renovation of the 125-year-old Homestake Gold Mine in the Black Hills of South Dakota as a unique underground science laboratory. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2268 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2268 Mon, 05 Mar 2001 08:00:00 GMT Seismologists, geologists and engineers from the University of Washington, the United States Geological Survey and the private sector discuss specific information about Wednesday's magnitude 6.8 Nisqually earthquake, including results from the strong-motion network; after-effects such as landslides and liquefaction; potential economic impact; current damage; and hazards that might lie ahead http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2264 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2264 Fri, 02 Mar 2001 08:00:00 GMT University of Washington scientists today were finding evidence of liquefaction in areas south of downtown Seattle, some of them heavily damaged in Wednesday's major earthquake. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2261 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2261 Thu, 01 Mar 2001 08:00:00 GMT A number of University of Washington sources can help reporters put the current energy situation in perspective, both in terms of short-term issues and long-term effects. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2223 Science Law and Policy Steven Goldsmith (206-543-2580) and Rob Harrill (206-543-2580) and Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2223 Thu, 18 Jan 2001 08:00:00 GMT University of Washington scientists using gravity measurements to hunt for evidence of dimensions in addition to those already known have found that those dimensions would have to occupy a space smaller than 0.2 millimeter. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3129 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3129 Fri, 12 Jan 2001 08:00:00 GMT Rumors that record sub-zero temperatures will hit Seattle next week are based on sketchy data and have virtually no chance of coming true, a University of Washington scientist said today. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1930 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1930 Tue, 05 Dec 2000 08:00:00 GMT Argentine penguins are turning up off the coast of Brazil in record numbers, and a University of Washington scientist believes it is because unusually prolonged cold water has kept their food supply - primarily sardines, anchovies and squid - farther north much longer than usual. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1946 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1946 Tue, 28 Nov 2000 08:00:00 GMT An optical telecommunications breakthrough developed by a University of Washington chemistry professor has spawned a new company to develop and market the technology, and could lead to establishment of a center at the UW for the growing science of photonics. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3318 Science Rob Harrill (206-543-2580) and Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3318 Mon, 30 Oct 2000 08:00:00 GMT The greatest mass extinction in Earth history eliminated 85 percent to 90 percent of all marine and land vertebrate species 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian Period and the beginning of the Triassic. New evidence from researchers at the University of Washington and the South African Museum shows the extinction was accompanied by a massive loss of vegetation, causing major changes in river systems. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1974 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1974 Thu, 07 Sep 2000 08:00:00 GMT A researcher at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture at the University of Washington and a Japanese colleague have found similarities in bone structure suggesting that birds did, in fact, evolve from a group of dinosaurs. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3527 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3527 Wed, 09 Aug 2000 08:00:00 GMT A state-of-the-art University of Washington research aircraft will be a key element in the Southern Africa Regional Science Initiative (SAFARI 2000) campaign, taking low-altitude readings that will be correlated to data from a high-flying NASA aircraft and from a satellite that is part of NASA's Earth Observing System. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3522 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3522 Mon, 17 Jul 2000 08:00:00 GMT Climbers who conquer the world's highest peak are about one-third as likely to die during descent if they use supplemental oxygen during the journey than if they rely only on the limited oxygen in thin mountain air, a University of Washington researcher has found. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3520 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3520 Tue, 11 Jul 2000 08:00:00 GMT New polymers developed by chemists and engineers at the University of Washington and the University of Southern California appear to achieve speed and capacity increases so great that they will revolutionize telecommunications, data processing, sensing and display technologies. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3325 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3325 Sat, 06 May 2000 08:00:00 GMT It's a smaller world after all - that is, if new measurements by University of Washington physicists turn out to be correct. Their new calculations for the Earth's mass came from work that could establish the most precise measurement ever achieved of Isaac Newton's gravitational constant. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1897 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1897 Sat, 29 Apr 2000 08:00:00 GMT http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1895 Science Campus Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1895 Wed, 26 Apr 2000 08:00:00 GMT Steve Malone began studying Mount St. Helens in 1973. He didn't know that just seven years later he would be tracking swarms of earthquakes signaling that the mountain was about to blow its top. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1891 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1891 Mon, 24 Apr 2000 08:00:00 GMT The following is a list of experts at the University of Washington who can help reporters who are preparing stories to mark the 20th anniversary of the eruption of Mount St. Helens. The first three scientists listed still have active research programs at the mountain. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1875 Science Sandra Hines (206-543-2580) and Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1875 Tue, 11 Apr 2000 08:00:00 GMT Since the discovery of the Seattle Fault in the early 1990s, many people have worried how the region's most-recognizable sports stadium would fare in a major earthquake. Now scientists hope the planned destruction of the Kingdome will give them a better picture of the fault and its associated risks to downtown Seattle. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1860 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1860 Wed, 22 Mar 2000 08:00:00 GMT A short-term climate cycle that builds in the Indian Ocean and moves eastward through the equatorial Pacific Ocean is a key factor in the formation of hurricanes and tropical storms over the Gulf of Mexico and the western Caribbean Sea, University of Washington researchers have found. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3304 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3304 Thu, 16 Mar 2000 08:00:00 GMT University of Washington research, to be published in the Feb. 17 edition of the journal Nature, suggests the health of the ecosystem is rooted in a complex codependency between plants and animals that produce organic matter and simple organisms that break it down. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3299 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3299 Wed, 16 Feb 2000 08:00:00 GMT A new book by two University of Washington scientists contends that, contrary to popular thought, we just might be alone and Earth might be unique, if not in the universe at least in this celestial neighborhood. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1820 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1820 Tue, 18 Jan 2000 08:00:00 GMT The first total lunar eclipse in more than two years will occur Thursday and, barring cloudy skies, Northwest residents should get some spectacular views. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1822 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1822 Tue, 18 Jan 2000 08:00:00 GMT The Washington NASA Space Grant Consortium's recent move into new offices could be profitable for K-12 teachers throughout the Northwest, giving them easy access to a wealth of science teaching materials produced by the nation's space agency. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1819 Science Campus Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1819 Fri, 14 Jan 2000 08:00:00 GMT http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1815 Science Campus Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1815 Wed, 12 Jan 2000 08:00:00 GMT Seventy-five years after Edwin Hubble demonstrated that the universe extended beyond the Milky Way, three University of Washington astronomers using the telescope that bears his name have made some surprising discoveries about one object of his research. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3290 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3290 Wed, 12 Jan 2000 08:00:00 GMT A growing body of evidence indicates that a climate phenomenon called the Arctic Oscillation has wide-ranging effects in the Northern Hemisphere and operates differently from other known climate cycles. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1800 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1800 Thu, 16 Dec 1999 08:00:00 GMT A new technique using ice-penetrating radar is allowing scientists for the first time to reveal long-ago changes in West Antarctic ice streams, rivers of ice believed to be linked to the stability of the massive West Antarctic Ice Sheet http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1795 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1795 Mon, 13 Dec 1999 08:00:00 GMT A plume of pollution that crossed the Pacific Ocean from Asia earlier this year contained ozone at levels high enough to violate a new federal ozone standard. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1790 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1790 Tue, 07 Dec 1999 08:00:00 GMT Can Washington, Oregon and Idaho handle average temperatures more than 5 degrees warmer, 5 percent more annual precipitation, one-third less winter snowpack and a mountain snow line as much as 1,500 feet higher? http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3287 Science Sandra Hines (206-543-2580) and Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3287 Tue, 09 Nov 1999 08:00:00 GMT 19 scientists from the UW and other regional institutions have compiled a report on how climate change in the Northwest will affect water resources, salmon, forests and coastlines. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1760 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1760 Fri, 05 Nov 1999 08:00:00 GMT An immense expanse of Antarctic ice that has been receding steadily for 10,000 years poses the most immediate threat of a large sea level rise because of its potential instability, a new study indicates. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1724 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1724 Thu, 07 Oct 1999 08:00:00 GMT Two University of Washington zoology professors are proposing a novel hypothesis for how metamorphosis evolved. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1718 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1718 Thu, 30 Sep 1999 08:00:00 GMT The organic properties of some particles, such as those from the burning of agricultural waste, have been found to increase the number of cloud droplets in polluted air, allowing more sunlight to be reflected into space than would occur normally.The phenomenon affects climate locally, and probably regionally, say researchers from the Consilio Nazionale delle Ricerche in Bologna, Italy, and the University of Washington in Seattle. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1698 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1698 Thu, 16 Sep 1999 08:00:00 GMT Geophysicists from four institutions, including the University of Washington, are launching a second round of the Seismic Hazards Investigations in Puget Sound (SHIPS) project that started last year. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1699 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1699 Thu, 16 Sep 1999 08:00:00 GMT http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1696 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1696 Mon, 13 Sep 1999 08:00:00 GMT A new propulsion system dubbed M2P2 can greatly boost spacecraft speeds, perhaps to 10 times the velocity of the space shuttle, University of Washington scientists believe. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1667 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1667 Mon, 16 Aug 1999 08:00:00 GMT For nearly a decade, University of Washington atmospheric chemist Robert Charlson has advanced the notion that, in some regions, tiny particles from industrial pollution are actually countering the atmospheric warming effects of greenhouse gases. For nearly a decade, University of Washington atmospheric chemist Robert Charlson has advanced the notion that, in some regions, tiny particles from industrial pollution are actually countering the atmospheric warming effects of greenhouse gases. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1660 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1660 Mon, 02 Aug 1999 08:00:00 GMT The Amorphophallus titanum, or corpse flower, that started blooming in the University of Washington botany greenhouse yesterday began to collapse this afternoon, signaling the end of the bloom's short life. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1649 Campus Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1649 Thu, 08 Jul 1999 08:00:00 GMT http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1647 Science Campus Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1647 Wed, 07 Jul 1999 08:00:00 GMT http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1643 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1643 Tue, 29 Jun 1999 08:00:00 GMT In a program called Project Astro, fourth- and fifth-grade students at Olympic View made 8-inch ceramic discs to decorate a sundial, which was installed on May 22 by Sullivan, a Puget Sound Energy crew and school volunteers. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1633 Community Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1633 Mon, 14 Jun 1999 08:00:00 GMT Species recovery plans have multiplied quickly since the Endangered Species Act was spawned 25 years ago. But there's still a question of how well the more than 900 species listed as endangered or threatened are recovering. Now a University of Washington zoologist is spearheading a national effort to review 200 recovery plans in detail. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1601 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1601 Mon, 10 May 1999 08:00:00 GMT Western Washington's two major earthquakes this century had minimal impact north of Seattle. But new evidence suggests that in the previous 1,100 years an area between Everett and Marysville experienced at least three earthquakes of at least moderate intensity that produced liquefaction. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3257 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3257 Tue, 04 May 1999 08:00:00 GMT A Douglas fir log plucked from a sewer trench along the shores of Puget Sound has helped scientists narrow the time frame for a major earthquake more than a millenium ago, the last big rupture of the Seattle fault. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1594 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1594 Mon, 03 May 1999 08:00:00 GMT Major Puget Sound-area earthquakes in 1949 and 1965 are but a dim memory for most people who lived through them. But geological records going back thousands of years imply an even greater hazard in the Cascadia subduction zone than is reflected in 200 years of written history. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1596 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1596 Mon, 03 May 1999 08:00:00 GMT You could call it Martian Standard Time. The new "time zone" takes effect in January 2002 when a sundial designed and assembled at the University of Washington lands on the red planet aboard NASA's 2001 Mars Surveyor. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3245 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3245 Wed, 21 Apr 1999 08:00:00 GMT Tim Walsh, a state DNR geologist, will provide an overview of the effects of the 1949 Olympia earthquake. Stephen Kirby, a USGS senior research geophysicist, then will discuss what can be learned about subduction zone earthquakes from the 1949 event http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1582 Campus Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1582 Fri, 09 Apr 1999 08:00:00 GMT http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1568 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1568 Thu, 01 Apr 1999 08:00:00 GMT Radar data will help scientists in their quest to pinpoint climate change http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1560 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1560 Wed, 24 Mar 1999 08:00:00 GMT Two University of Washington professors are among 20 environmental scientists nationwide named today to fellowships in a new communications training and networking program. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1549 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1549 Mon, 08 Mar 1999 08:00:00 GMT http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1532 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1532 Wed, 03 Feb 1999 08:00:00 GMT http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1530 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1530 Mon, 01 Feb 1999 08:00:00 GMT http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1528 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1528 Mon, 25 Jan 1999 08:00:00 GMT http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1527 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1527 Sat, 23 Jan 1999 08:00:00 GMT http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1526 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1526 Fri, 22 Jan 1999 08:00:00 GMT http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1523 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1523 Sat, 09 Jan 1999 08:00:00 GMT http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1521 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=1521 Thu, 07 Jan 1999 08:00:00 GMT Two University of Washington astronomy professors and two UW graduate students were among dozens of scientists on two teams who this year showed that the expansion of the universe is actually accelerating, a discovery lauded by the journal "Science" in its Dec. 18 edition as the most important science advance of the year. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3504 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3504 Thu, 17 Dec 1998 08:00:00 GMT Paleontologists from the South African Museum and the University of Washington have discovered what appears to be the first complete fossil of a gorgonopsid, a ferocious predator with both reptilian and mammalian characteristics that became extinct 250 million years ago. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3499 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3499 Tue, 08 Dec 1998 08:00:00 GMT Atmospheric pollution from eastern Asia is beginning to have measurable, though still small, effects on air quality in western North America, a researcher from the University of Washington, Bothell, said today. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2551 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2551 Sun, 06 Dec 1998 08:00:00 GMT Recent satellite measurements by University of Washington seismologists indicate the "locked zone" between the Juan de Fuca and North America plates is wider in the Seattle area than previously believed. That means the Puget Sound lowlands are likely to experience significantly greater motion during a subduction-zone earthquake than scientists earlier thought. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2547 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2547 Wed, 02 Dec 1998 08:00:00 GMT The annual Leonid meteor shower will appear Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 17 and 18. This year the event will include a meteor "storm," as the Earth plows through a small and very dense clump of particles trailing from Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2558 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2558 Thu, 12 Nov 1998 08:00:00 GMT Armed with a 'new' tool, a 40-year-old Convair 580 turboprop plane stuffed with research equipment, University of Washington atmospheric scientists are ready to fly higher and farther to gain a greater understanding of climate and weather patterns, regionally and globally. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2555 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2555 Tue, 03 Nov 1998 08:00:00 GMT A three-lecture series that explores life around hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor off the Washington-British Columbia coast and the possibility of life on Jupiter's moons will be held on three consecutive Thursdays in November. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2579 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2579 Wed, 28 Oct 1998 08:00:00 GMT Everyone in the Northwest talks about the weather. Now a University of Washington atmospheric scientist and the state Department of Transportation plan to do something about it. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2567 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2567 Thu, 08 Oct 1998 08:00:00 GMT Recent rumors that Western Washington is in for its severest winter in 50 years are nothing more than unsupported hype that goes well beyond current forecast abilities, according to University of Washington atmospheric scientists. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2565 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2565 Fri, 02 Oct 1998 08:00:00 GMT Two new studies of avalanches in Snoqualmie Pass in the Washington Cascades near Seattle could bring about more accurate predictions that will safeguard travelers in quickly changing conditions. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2564 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2564 Thu, 01 Oct 1998 08:00:00 GMT The University of Washington is poised to become the first institution anywhere to launch a doctoral program specifically geared to train scientists to search for life on celestial bodies such as Mars or Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2608 Science Campus Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2608 Wed, 30 Sep 1998 08:00:00 GMT University of Washington basketball stars Jamie Redd and Donald Watts will travel to Tacoma later this month to talk with kids about the way sports has shaped their lives and given them educational opportunities. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2599 Community Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2599 Mon, 21 Sep 1998 08:00:00 GMT The University of Washington today was awarded a four-year, $1.2 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to support undergraduate education in the biological sciences http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2597 Health and Medicine Campus Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2597 Wed, 16 Sep 1998 08:00:00 GMT The world's oldest known fossil of a toothless whale, a previously unknown genus and species, has yielded clues about the evolution of the ocean-going giants. Now, after five years of study and preparation, it is on public display at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture at the University of Washington. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3223 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3223 Mon, 31 Aug 1998 08:00:00 GMT An experiment to devise a new method for tracking large-scale changes in ocean temperature associated with events such as El Niņo and with global warming indicates that scientists can successfully use low-frequency sound transmissions to measure the temperature of vast expanses of ocean. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2680 Science Sandra Hines (206-543-2580) and Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2680 Thu, 27 Aug 1998 08:00:00 GMT There's no denying July was unbearably, deadly hot in Texas. But when it came to higher-than-normal mercury readings, Eastern Washington ranked well ahead of most of the Southwest. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2671 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2671 Wed, 12 Aug 1998 08:00:00 GMT University of Washington astronomers, with an assist from local amateur astronomical societies, are preparing to head into Puget Sound-area schools for the second year to bring hands-on science experience to K-12 students. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2697 Science Community Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2697 Fri, 24 Jul 1998 08:00:00 GMT It might sound like something from a popular science fiction movie, but a University of Washington astronomy professor's nearly two-decade dream of launching an unmanned spacecraft to collect interstellar dust from a comet is close to coming true. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3232 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3232 Mon, 29 Jun 1998 08:00:00 GMT Hundreds of thousands of people will get a vicarious thrill tracking the progress of the Stardust mission to comet Wild 2 in the next seven years, knowing their names are inscribed on a microchip that is going along for the ride. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2700 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2700 Fri, 26 Jun 1998 08:00:00 GMT http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2701 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2701 Fri, 26 Jun 1998 08:00:00 GMT A six-week camp in the rugged Montana backcountry promises to transform 20 University of Washington undergraduates into full-fledged geologists. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2717 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2717 Wed, 17 Jun 1998 08:00:00 GMT The brightest object yet observed in the universe has been discovered by a University of Washington astronomer and his colleagues. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2711 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2711 Wed, 10 Jun 1998 08:00:00 GMT The University of Washington is a key player in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, an ambitious new effort to create the first-ever digital map of the heavens. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3225 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=3225 Mon, 08 Jun 1998 08:00:00 GMT A physics collaboration that includes a team from the University of Washington has unveiled evidence indicating that subatomic particles known as neutrinos have mass. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2705 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2705 Fri, 05 Jun 1998 08:00:00 GMT Physicists at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) in Geneva have created the highest-energy electrons and positrons, the anti-matter counterparts of electrons, ever produced in a man-made particle accelerator. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2704 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2704 Wed, 03 Jun 1998 08:00:00 GMT El Nino means milder winters for some in the United States and flooding and mudslides for others. For the penguins living in the Galapagos Islands off South America, it means possible starvation. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2738 Science Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=2738 Tue, 26 May 1998 08:00:00 GMT A UW senior will use a $5,000 travel fellowship to live in an Inuit village on a Greenland glacier. http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=27706 Campus Science Education Vince Stricherz (206-543-2580) http://uwnews.org/article.asp?articleid=27706 Fri, 08 May 1998 08:00:00 GMT