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ESS alumna and Indiana University Bloomington Assistant Prof. Dr. Julia Kelson was awarded the Geological Society of America's prestigious Donath Medal (Young Scientist Award) for pioneering Earth science research. Kelson got her PhD from ESS in 2019, advised by Prof. Kate Huntington.
IU professor awarded Geological Society of America’s prestigious Donath Medal for pioneering earth science research
Julia Kelson, Assistant Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS) in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington, is the recip...
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November 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
ESS alumna and Indiana University Bloomington Assistant Prof. Dr. Julia Kelson was awarded the Geological Society of America's prestigious Donath Medal (Young Scientist Award) for pioneering Earth science research. Kelson got her PhD from ESS in 2019, advised by Prof. Kate Huntington.
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Still waiting for someone to get me some tsunami awareness jewelry 👀
I guess I will just keep scrolling dnr.wa.gov/tsunamis while I wait
I guess I will just keep scrolling dnr.wa.gov/tsunamis while I wait
November 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Still waiting for someone to get me some tsunami awareness jewelry 👀
I guess I will just keep scrolling dnr.wa.gov/tsunamis while I wait
I guess I will just keep scrolling dnr.wa.gov/tsunamis while I wait
💡UW Bothell researchers are repurposing fiber-optic cables to monitor orcas in Puget Sound. Led by Shima Abadi, with ESS co-PIs Drs. Brad Lipovsky and Marine Denolle, this work could transform global cable networks into tools for marine conservation. 🐋
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Using light to hear the whales - News
Novel research trial uses Distributed Acoustic Sensing technology to monitor Puget Sound’s orca population.
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October 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
💡UW Bothell researchers are repurposing fiber-optic cables to monitor orcas in Puget Sound. Led by Shima Abadi, with ESS co-PIs Drs. Brad Lipovsky and Marine Denolle, this work could transform global cable networks into tools for marine conservation. 🐋
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Over 600 years ago, a massive earthquake and tsunami struck the northeastern Caribbean. Flooding scattered coral boulder across the island. The corals died but their skeletons remain. Scientists are learning that these skeletons hold clues about tsunami history.
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October 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Over 600 years ago, a massive earthquake and tsunami struck the northeastern Caribbean. Flooding scattered coral boulder across the island. The corals died but their skeletons remain. Scientists are learning that these skeletons hold clues about tsunami history.
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If you're in #Seattle on Friday and want to get on board a historic tall ship, come visit us at Pier 66! We'll be aboard the Statsraad Lehmkuhl during One Ocean Week Seattle. Come see the boat, learn about ocean science, and say hi to us from #UWEnvironment!
Register: https://bit.ly/4o3TKpS
Register: https://bit.ly/4o3TKpS
October 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
If you're in #Seattle on Friday and want to get on board a historic tall ship, come visit us at Pier 66! We'll be aboard the Statsraad Lehmkuhl during One Ocean Week Seattle. Come see the boat, learn about ocean science, and say hi to us from #UWEnvironment!
Register: https://bit.ly/4o3TKpS
Register: https://bit.ly/4o3TKpS
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It's time! Where ever you are DROP, COVER, and HOLD ON. Take part with people all over the world in the Great ShakeOut and practice your earthquake safety!
October 16, 2025 at 5:16 PM
It's time! Where ever you are DROP, COVER, and HOLD ON. Take part with people all over the world in the Great ShakeOut and practice your earthquake safety!
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Did you DROP, COVER, and HOLD ON yet today? If not, don't worry - it's never too late to practice earthquake safety! Try doing your own drill at your home, office, or school and take part in the #GreatShakeOut alongside millions of others.
October 16, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Did you DROP, COVER, and HOLD ON yet today? If not, don't worry - it's never too late to practice earthquake safety! Try doing your own drill at your home, office, or school and take part in the #GreatShakeOut alongside millions of others.
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PNSN is back at the ball park for game four of the ALCS! Root for the @mariners and watch our live seismogram streaming from T-Mobile Park.
Here: mariners.pnsn.org
#SeizeTheMoment
Here: mariners.pnsn.org
#SeizeTheMoment
October 17, 2025 at 1:10 AM
PNSN is back at the ball park for game four of the ALCS! Root for the @mariners and watch our live seismogram streaming from T-Mobile Park.
Here: mariners.pnsn.org
#SeizeTheMoment
Here: mariners.pnsn.org
#SeizeTheMoment
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A new study proposes that a tsunami struck the Caribbean island of Anegada between 1381 and 1391, carrying huge coral boulders inland and leaving behind a valuable record of geologic and climatic history.
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Coral skeletons left by a medieval tsunami whisper warning for Caribbean region
A new collaborative study led by scientists at the University of Washington and the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science proposes that a tsunami struck the Caribbean island of...
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October 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
A new study proposes that a tsunami struck the Caribbean island of Anegada between 1381 and 1391, carrying huge coral boulders inland and leaving behind a valuable record of geologic and climatic history.
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Recent @Mariners games have been shaking things up enough for our seismometers to notice but those waves are all in good fun. It's a great reminder that real quakes can happen anytime. Join us tomorrow (10/16) for @ShakeOut and practice what to do when the ground really moves.
October 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Recent @Mariners games have been shaking things up enough for our seismometers to notice but those waves are all in good fun. It's a great reminder that real quakes can happen anytime. Join us tomorrow (10/16) for @ShakeOut and practice what to do when the ground really moves.
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You feel that Seattle?! Check out that Polanco P-Wave! Polanco Game Winning Single, Crawford Scores, MARINERS WIN!! @Mariners are Toronto Bound! @Tmobilepark @FoxSports
#SeisTheMoment #SeizeTheMoment
#SeisTheMoment #SeizeTheMoment
October 11, 2025 at 5:20 AM
You feel that Seattle?! Check out that Polanco P-Wave! Polanco Game Winning Single, Crawford Scores, MARINERS WIN!! @Mariners are Toronto Bound! @Tmobilepark @FoxSports
#SeisTheMoment #SeizeTheMoment
#SeisTheMoment #SeizeTheMoment
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Dubs is ready to #ShakeOut... Are you?
We’re just ONE WEEK away from the Great ShakeOut earthquake drill on October 16! Join Dubs in practicing Drop, Cover, and Hold On.
Register your participation and explore all the ways you can boost awareness for this event at shakeout.org.
We’re just ONE WEEK away from the Great ShakeOut earthquake drill on October 16! Join Dubs in practicing Drop, Cover, and Hold On.
Register your participation and explore all the ways you can boost awareness for this event at shakeout.org.
October 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Dubs is ready to #ShakeOut... Are you?
We’re just ONE WEEK away from the Great ShakeOut earthquake drill on October 16! Join Dubs in practicing Drop, Cover, and Hold On.
Register your participation and explore all the ways you can boost awareness for this event at shakeout.org.
We’re just ONE WEEK away from the Great ShakeOut earthquake drill on October 16! Join Dubs in practicing Drop, Cover, and Hold On.
Register your participation and explore all the ways you can boost awareness for this event at shakeout.org.
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Analysis of data from the Cassini space probe has identified organic compounds within jets of water ice erupting from Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Some of the compounds have never before been identified on another world beyond Earth.
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October 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Analysis of data from the Cassini space probe has identified organic compounds within jets of water ice erupting from Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Some of the compounds have never before been identified on another world beyond Earth.
More: www.washington.edu/news/2025/10...
More: www.washington.edu/news/2025/10...
New Cassini data reveal organic compounds, some never before identified on a world beyond Earth, in jets of water ice from Saturn’s moon Enceladus — findings by UW postdoc Fabian Klenner and colleagues strengthen the case that Enceladus could support life. 🔬🪐
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Discovery of organic compounds bolsters case that Saturn’s moon Enceladus could support life
A new analysis of data from the Cassini space probe has identified organic compounds within jets of water ice erupting from Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Some of the compounds, which likely originated in.....
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October 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
New Cassini data reveal organic compounds, some never before identified on a world beyond Earth, in jets of water ice from Saturn’s moon Enceladus — findings by UW postdoc Fabian Klenner and colleagues strengthen the case that Enceladus could support life. 🔬🪐
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A tiny site in rural Pierce County is one of ~650 seismic stations operated by @pnsn1.bsky.social to detect and monitor #earthquakes in the #pnw. It was key to detecting a swarm of small earthquakes at @altmtrainier.com last summer.
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How a Graham farm helped detect a swarm of earthquakes at Mount Rainier
Private properties, schools, fire departments and others play a key part in monitoring temblors in the Pacific Northwest.
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October 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
A tiny site in rural Pierce County is one of ~650 seismic stations operated by @pnsn1.bsky.social to detect and monitor #earthquakes in the #pnw. It was key to detecting a swarm of small earthquakes at @altmtrainier.com last summer.
https://bit.ly/3IQrckf
https://bit.ly/3IQrckf
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Ocean oxygenation was a gradual process. Shallow areas near the shore were oxygenated first, and inhabited by breathing species. As oxygen permeated deeper and deeper, ocean-dwellers followed, leading to a rapid expansion of jawed vertebrates. @uwess.bsky.social
How oxygen made the deep ocean home to animals, spurring rapid evolution
New research shows that deep-ocean oxygenation occurred 100 million years later than previously thought, aligning with the growth and spread of land plants. Once oxygenated, the ocean hosted rapid...
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September 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Ocean oxygenation was a gradual process. Shallow areas near the shore were oxygenated first, and inhabited by breathing species. As oxygen permeated deeper and deeper, ocean-dwellers followed, leading to a rapid expansion of jawed vertebrates. @uwess.bsky.social
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For years, researchers have hypothesized that westerly winds were ferrying warm water toward the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, accelerating ice melt. A new @uwess.bsky.social study flips the existing narrative on its head, pointing toward winds from the north instead.
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September 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
For years, researchers have hypothesized that westerly winds were ferrying warm water toward the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, accelerating ice melt. A new @uwess.bsky.social study flips the existing narrative on its head, pointing toward winds from the north instead.
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ESS Assoc. Professor Marine Denolle and PhD student Yiyu Ni are featured in this first episode!
In the first part of this video series exploring how UW researchers our cloud computing resources, we meet with the Denolle Quake Lab to learn about their NSF supported project on a global seismic activity database.
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A Global Database of Seismic Phases: How the Denolle Quake Lab uses Cloud Computing Resources @ UW
YouTube video by UW eScience Institute
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August 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
ESS Assoc. Professor Marine Denolle and PhD student Yiyu Ni are featured in this first episode!
🐟 ESS PhD student Kunmanee Bubphamanee co-authored new research showing the deep ocean only became oxygenated about 390M years ago due to the spread of land plants. This shift made the deep sea habitable to animals like early jawed fish, the ancestor to modern vertebrates.
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Read the full story 👇
How oxygen made the deep ocean home to animals, spurring rapid evolution
New research shows that deep-ocean oxygenation occurred 100 million years later than previously thought, aligning with the growth and spread of land plants. Once oxygenated, the ocean hosted rapid...
www.washington.edu
August 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
🐟 ESS PhD student Kunmanee Bubphamanee co-authored new research showing the deep ocean only became oxygenated about 390M years ago due to the spread of land plants. This shift made the deep sea habitable to animals like early jawed fish, the ancestor to modern vertebrates.
Read the full story 👇
Read the full story 👇
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@uwenvironment.bsky.social will expand its work related to climate solutions thanks to a grant announced today from Fund for Science and Technology, a new foundation within the Paul G. Allen philanthropic ecosystem.
Fund for Science and Technology invests in the UW College of the Environment to further innovation and research related to climate solutions
The University of Washington’s College of the Environment will expand its work related to climate solutions thanks to a grant announced today from Fund for Science and Technology, FFST, a new...
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August 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
@uwenvironment.bsky.social will expand its work related to climate solutions thanks to a grant announced today from Fund for Science and Technology, a new foundation within the Paul G. Allen philanthropic ecosystem.
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@uwess.bsky.social Assistant Research Professor TJ Fudge talks about the status of glaciers in the Pacific Northwest and the dangers of shrinking glaciers.
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UW professor on threats to glaciers, impact on western Washington
UW Assistant Research Professor TJ Fudge talks about the status of glaciers in the Pacific Northwest and the dangers of shrinking glaciers.
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August 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
@uwess.bsky.social Assistant Research Professor TJ Fudge talks about the status of glaciers in the Pacific Northwest and the dangers of shrinking glaciers.
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“Our whole Earth system depends, in part, on these ice sheets,” said Dominik Gräff. “It’s a fragile system, and if you disturb it even just a little bit, it could collapse. We need to understand the turning points. This requires deep, process-based knowledge of glacial mass loss."
August 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
“Our whole Earth system depends, in part, on these ice sheets,” said Dominik Gräff. “It’s a fragile system, and if you disturb it even just a little bit, it could collapse. We need to understand the turning points. This requires deep, process-based knowledge of glacial mass loss."
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Great job opportunity with the California Geological Survey. @uwess.bsky.social @pnsn1.bsky.social
🔔 The California Geological Survey is hiring a SEISMOLOGIST. 🔔
Duty station is in Sacramento. Position closes September 1st so apply now!
For duty statement, salary ranges, additional information and to apply, please visit calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...
Duty station is in Sacramento. Position closes September 1st so apply now!
For duty statement, salary ranges, additional information and to apply, please visit calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...
Staff Seismologist
Looking to make a difference? Join our strong and mighty workforce. We offer benefits and growth opportunities and impact the lives of millions of Californians.
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August 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Great job opportunity with the California Geological Survey. @uwess.bsky.social @pnsn1.bsky.social
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On clear days, when Mt. Rainier is visible from Seattle and Tacoma, locals say "The mountain is out." But lately, melting #glaciers have made that iconic view look rockier and less snowy, @knkx.org reports.
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Mount Rainier looks less snowy as climate change melts glaciers worldwide
Views of the Puget Sound region's iconic mountain are darker, showing signs of climate change.
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August 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
On clear days, when Mt. Rainier is visible from Seattle and Tacoma, locals say "The mountain is out." But lately, melting #glaciers have made that iconic view look rockier and less snowy, @knkx.org reports.
https://bit.ly/4mSxCxF
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UW ESS scientists deployed a fiber-optic cable across a Greenland fjord to capture how calving ice triggers hidden waves that pull warm water up, speeding melting. This key process accelerating glacial mass loss threatens ice sheet stability, ocean currents, and ecosystems. #UWESS #UWEnvironment
‘Revolutionary’ seafloor fiber sensing reveals how falling ice drives glacial retreat in Greenland
A UW-led team of researchers used a fiber-optic cable to capture calving dynamics across the fjord of the Eqalorutsit Kangilliit Sermiat glacier in South Greenland. This allowed them to document —...
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August 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
UW ESS scientists deployed a fiber-optic cable across a Greenland fjord to capture how calving ice triggers hidden waves that pull warm water up, speeding melting. This key process accelerating glacial mass loss threatens ice sheet stability, ocean currents, and ecosystems. #UWESS #UWEnvironment