Our 2020 JISAO Magazine is Now Available
We are please to share the newest addition of JISAO Magazine with you. This publication summarizes our year’s activities and highlights recent research efforts.
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A Unique Alliance Could Help Warn Us of Toxic Algae
By Sarah Harrison, WIRED
In Washington state, scientists, coastal communities, and state agencies are banding together to manage the growing threat of harmful algal blooms.
North Slope Borough, NOAA, University of Washington and CICOES Scientists Collaborate to Monitor Whales in 2020 in Northern Alaska
From NOAA Fisheries,
When it comes to observing bowhead whales in Arctic waters, scientists and Indigenous communities are learning to “expect the unexpected.”
In the Arctic, each year before daylight disappears and winter arrives, thousands of bowhead whales make their fall migration across the Beaufort Sea off northern Alaska.
La Niña Winter Ahead
By Bob Larson
With today’s Fruit Grower Report, I’m Bob Larson. As 2020 winds down to a much-anticipated conclusion, growers still have the weather to worry about.
NOVA: Can We Cool the Planet?
As global temperatures rise, scientists are exploring solutions from planting trees to sucking carbon out of the air to geoengineering.
Watch episode at PBS
Drying and Dying: Drought Conditions Plague the Pacific Northwest
By Anthony Edwards, The Daily
2020 has been a devastating year for climate change in the United States.
As Climate Disasters Pile Up, a Radical Proposal Gains Traction
The idea of modifying Earth’s atmosphere to cool the planet, once seen as too risky to seriously consider, is attracting new money and attention.
See full article at NY Times
La Niña is Looming Large. Here’s What That Means for Winter in the Northwest
By Robert Mittendorf, Bellingham Herald
Western Washington is looking at a cold, wet winter with heavy mountain snow because of a La Niña weather pattern that’s developing thousands of miles away.
Wildfire Smoke Blows Into Seattle Areas; Fires Burn East and West of Mountains
By Joseph O’Sullivan, Lynda V. Mapes, and Elise Takahama, Seattle Times
Fierce winds and dry, hot weather sparked dozens of wildfires throughout the state Monday and Tuesday, filling the Seattle area with smoke, forcing hundreds of families to flee their homes and knocking out power in thousands of others.
Organic Time Capsules
By Deborah Malarek for JISAO Magazine
Corals Communicate Changes In Climate And Ocean Chemistry
Maybe it was her childhood in the Midwest that drew JISAO postdoc Sara Sanchez to study the sea.