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UW Oceanographers Find a Fin Whale Datamine in Seismograph Readings

At story at UW News quotes principal investigator William Wilcock, a UW professor of oceanography, as saying the chattering whales “were kind of just a nuisance,” at least as far as seismographers were concerned. Researcher Dax Soule “created 154 individual fin whale paths and discovered three categories of vocalizing whales that swam south in winter and early spring of 2003.” Continue reading UW Oceanographers Find a Fin Whale Datamine in Seismograph Readings

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What Lies Beneath Mount St. Helens? Scientists Plan a Volcanic CAT Scan

“Imaging Magma Under St. Helens” is the name of a new research project (aka iMUSH) that’s just gotten National Science Foundation funding. Beginning in 2014, scientists with the University of Washington; the Rice, Columbia, and Oregon State universities; and the USGS will embark on a four-year study of Mount St. Helens, the most seismically active volcano in the Cascades mountain range. Continue reading What Lies Beneath Mount St. Helens? Scientists Plan a Volcanic CAT Scan