Is it O.K. to tinker with the environment to fight climate change?
JISAO Director Tom Ackerman talks with The New York Times about the scientific, political, and moral complexity of geoengineering.
Read more in The New York Times MagazineScientists fear climate data gap as Trump aims at satellites
JISAO Director Tom Ackerman talks with the New York Times about the uncertainties of our nation’s climate monitoring capabilities.
Read more at the New York TimesStaff Spotlight: Christy Sims
Research Scientist
Christy Sims has worked with NOAA’s Marine Mammal Lab at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center since 1998 first as a volunteer, then a student worker, a contractor, and finally as a JISAO employee since July 2015.
Staff Spotlight – Karin Bumbaco
Assistant State Climatologist
Karin joined JISAO’s Office of the Washington State Climatologist (OWSC) in November 2008 as the Assistant State Climatologist.
Staff Spotlight – Rachel White
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Rachel joined JISAO as a postdoc at the beginning of 2015. She works in atmospheric dynamics, playing with coupled climate models to study large scale circulation.
Staff Spotlight: Erin Richmond
Research Scientist
Erin has worked for NOAA since 2008 and joined JISAO in October of 2015 as a Research Scientist in the Polar Ecosystems Program with the Marine Mammal Lab at the Alaska Fisheries Science Center in Seattle.
Paws-On Science: Husky Weekend
JISAO scientists present research at Pacific Science Center’s Husky Weekend
The arches at Pacific Science Center turned purple for the University of Washington’s Paws-On Science weekend.
Science for Kids
Arctic Mission
This video shows how researchers from the University of Washington collect data to help understand how melting sea ice in the Arctic is affecting weather patterns around the world.
Staff Spotlight: Heather Tabisola
Research Coordinator
Heather Tabisola recently joined JISAO as a Research Coordinator after spending most of her career life offshore, on a boat either working as a deck hand and research assistant or watching and listening for whales.
Staff Spotlight: Casey Saenger
Research Scientist
As indicated by his austere office furnishing, Casey is a fresh face around JISAO having recently relocated from the mountains and strip malls of Anchorage, Alaska.