Maug’s Caldera: A Natural Laboratory
Changing Seas TV: New episode highlights JISAO ocean acidification research
A new episode for the Changing Seas TV series was broadcast this week (June 28) on South Florida PBS WPBT2 focusing on PMEL’s May 2014 expedition to Maug Island, about 450 miles north of Guam to study volcanic ocean acidification.
The New York Times recognizes UW student policy recommendations
Policy recommendations built on scientific research being led by JISAO’s Ryan McCabe
Read more in UW TodayIs 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.