The College of the Environment’s Program on Climate Change (PCC) is hosting a free, interdisciplinary colloquium each month this academic year. ESS Professor Eric Steig was the third lecturer. Read more on The Daily UW, and watch the lecture on ESS’s YouTube channel. 

View the PBS Terra spotlight on How Scientists Solved the Mystery of a 300-Year-Old Megaquake, featuring QRC’s own Brian Atwater and Carrie Garrison-Laney.
The 1700 Cascadia earthquake and tsunami was a massive natural disaster that reshaped the Pacific Northwest. 

Do you have an area of Quaternary research or related theme you’d like to actively explore? Would you like to join a small group of QRC members for some writing and/or research accountability? 

Below is an obituary from the Leopold Foundation: Estella Leopold was “a pioneer among researchers and conservationists, an eminent role model for women in science, and an all around amazing, kind, and generous human being.” – Caroline Strömberg
Link: https://www.aldoleopold.org/blogs/a-turning-of-the-page-in-the-leopold-legacy
David Williams also wrote a biography on Estella in 2010:
Link: https://www.historylink.org/File/9378 

The QRC is at its best when we are able to come together to meet, think, work, and support one another. To provide additional opportunities for connecting this academic year, the QRC will be sponsoring Reading and Writing Groups.