Driest Summer in a Century Offers Taste of Seattle’s Future
By John Ryan, KUOW
You can only get to the lush rainforest of the Queets Valley on the rare occasions when it hasn’t rained recently and the Queets River isn’t too deep to wade across without being swept away.
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Staff Spotlight: Hannah Horowitz
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Hannah Horowitz is a postdoctoral research associate at JISAO funded by an NSF Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences postdoctoral research fellowship.
Wildfire Smoke Makes Seattle and Portland World’s Dirtiest Cities
By Craig Welch
For now, two of America’s cleanest cities have dirtier air than the most polluted cities in Asia.
El Nino Winter Predicted for Pacific Northwest
By Glen Farley
JISAO’s Nick Bond, the Washington State Climatologist, explains what an El Nino winter could look like for the Pacific Northwest.
Are Smokey Summer Skies the New Normal in Seattle?
By Graham Johnson, KIRO 7
At Log Boom Park in Kenmore, the view of Lake Washington on Tuesday was mostly lost in the haze.
Staff Spotlight: Andrew Collins
Andrew Collins joined JISAO in August of 2016 as a research scientist working the Marine Carbon group.
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John Horne Named Director of JISAO
UW’s College of the Environment is pleased to announce that John Horne has been named director of the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO) for a three-year term, effective August 1, 2018.
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Western Oregon, Southwest Washington Blanketed by ‘Severe Drought’
Western Oregon and southwest Washington have deteriorated from moderate to “severe drought” in the past week, the U.S.
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Drought Officially Returns to Western Washington
From Capital Press by Don Jenkins:
Streams are dropping, July could be a scorcher and drought has officially returned to Western Washington.
Quantifying Relationships of Northern Fur Seals, Pollock, and Climate Change in Alaska
Since the 1990s, the population of northern fur seals in the eastern Bering Sea has declined by more than half, with no scientific consensus as to what is causing the decline.
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