Shock and Thaw – Alaskan Sea Ice Just Took a Steep, Unprecedented Dive
From Scientific American by Andrea Thompson:
April should be prime walrus hunting season for the native villages that dot Alaska’s remote western coast.
Forum Focuses on How We Can Prevent Invasive Fish Species in The Great Lakes
NOAA scientist Carol Stepien will present research results at a public forum this week in Toledo on how local bait shops, anglers and the public can prevent invasive fish from accidentally being released into the Great Lakes.
See video at WGTE Public Media
Above-average Snowpack is Good News for Electric Bills, Tomato-lovers
All mountain areas of Washington state are at or above average snowfall for this time of year.
Read more at Q13 News
What Climate Change Means to Our Crucial Snowpack
“Low mountain snowpack raises water-supply fears in Washington” was a Seattle Times headline on Jan. 6, 2015.
Read more at the Seattle Times
Staff Spotlight: Hannah Zanowski
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Hannah joined JISAO as a postdoctoral research associate in February 2017. She is a polar oceanographer working with Greg Johnson, Kyle Armour, Cecilia Bitz, and Eric Steig.
Partnering with Indigenous Communities to Anticipate and Adapt to Ocean Change
With a new $700,000 grant awarded from the NOAA Ocean Acidification Program, scientists from JISAO, the UW’s Applied Physics Laboratory, and Washington Sea Grant have teamed with federal and tribal partners to study the social and ecological vulnerabilities of Olympic Coast ocean acidification.
Read more at UW News
Staff Spotlight: Cristian Proistosescu
Postdoctoral Researcher
Cristian Proistosescu is a postdoctoral research associate at JISAO, having joined in January 2017.
Tabor Graduate’s Science Lab is the Arctic Ocean
Heather McRae Tabisola, 2001 Tabor Academy graduate, will return to campus Feb. 20 to talk about the testing of the Saildrone, an innovative research tool in the Arctic to advance ocean observation.
Read more at South Coast Today
Civil War-Era U.S. Navy Ships’ Logs to be Explored for Climate Data, Maritime History
JISAO-based project is among the winners of the 2017 “Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives” awards.
Read more at UW News
Expedition to ‘Health-Check’ Southern Right Whales
An international team of researchers, led by British Antarctic Survey and including JISAO’s Amy Kennedy, travels to the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia in January to carry out the first scientific whale survey since whaling stopped in the 1970s.
Read more at British Antarctic Survey