A new study by CoEnv scientists evaluates the heat stress variables that may lead to a drop in milk production for cows across the country. This work will be featured in the International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts and Responses, which will be held on campus this Thursday and Friday. Yoram Bauman, affiliate professor at Program on the Environment, and Guillaume Mauger and Eric Salathe’ of Climate Impacts Group, are co-authors, with Tamilee Nennich of Purdue University.
Read more »NOAA Science Camp marks 10th anniversary in Seattle
NOAA Science Camp is celebrating its 10th year of bringing middle-schoolers, NOAA scientists and camp staff together to explore marine science through fun, hands-on activities. This year, campers will hear from the National Ocean Service’s Office of Response and Restoration (ORR) about marine debris from the 2011 Japan tsunami. ORR will discuss potential ocean paths of tsunami debris and connect this issue to other marine concepts that campers are learning about.
Read more »Ocean eddies, not sunlight, trigger springtime phytoplankton blooms in the North Atlantic - UWNews
Springtime blooms of the tiny ocean plants called phytoplankton are major factors in the global carbon cycle. Scientists have thought that these blooms were triggered mainly by sunlight, but a new study published in Science suggests that eddies in the ocean are triggering the springtime blooms. Oceanography‘s Eric D’Asaro and Craig Lee are co-authors. Read more here, or check out this video!
Read more »Scientists come together to create global monitoring network for ocean acidification - NatureNews
Researchers estimate that ocean acidity has risen by about 30% since the Industrial Revolution in the nineteenth century, but they need better data to improve assessments of where the problem is most severe, and to model future trends. A meeting on campus this week, involving oceanographers from more than 20 countries, aimed to develop plans to build on existing observation networks, giving buoys and other monitoring devices the ability to make standardized ocean acidification measurements.
Read more »Arctic sea-ice levels at record low for June - The Guardian
Satellite observations show the extent of the Arctic’s floating ice that melts and refreezes every year was 318,000 square miles less last week than the same day period in 2007, the year of record low extent, and the lowest observed at this time of year since records began in 1979. Research from the Polar Science Center is mentioned; read more here.
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