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Abigail L. S. Swann, Associate Professor, University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences and Department of Biology is the recipient of the Early Career Fellow of the Ecological Society of America. Congratulations!
Dr. Swann was elected for advancing understanding of linkages between vegetation change and the atmosphere via “ecoclimate teleconnections,” including understanding of the climate impacts of plant distributions and plant functioning, and of the processes...

Congratulations go to Jamin Rader and Claire Zarakas both of whom were awarded the 2019 DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF).

Congratulations to our student weather forecasters who won the national collegiate forecasting contest: The WxChallenge. The WxChallenge has been testing the forecast skills of university students since the fall of 2006.  During this time over 3000 participants...

As air quality improves, the invisible chemistry happening in the air around us is changing. Skies should clear up as emissions drop, but recent results suggested that declining nitrogen oxides can create an environment where airborne carbon-containing...