News | Quaternary Research Center

Feb 24, 2026 |

General

QRC member Eric Steig featured in CBS Sunday Morning segment on American history and climate change

UW glaciologist and ESS Professor Eric Steig was interviewed on the February 15th CBS Sunday Morning show. In the segment, “These United States: George Washington and climate change“, Steig showed CBS Environmental correspondent David Schechter around his lab (Δ*IsoLab, the stable isotope geochemistry laboratory in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences, which he co-leads with other ESS and Atmospheric Sciences faculty).

Nov 3, 2022 |

Announcements, General

Congratulations to QRC member, Dr. Caroline Strömberg!

Congratulations to QRC member, Dr. Caroline Strömberg, who was nominated and inducted as a Geological Society of America Fellow this past week at the annual meeting in Denver. Caroline’s nominator, Matthew J.

Oct 25, 2021 |

Announcements, General

Two QRC Members Honored at the 2021 Geological Society of America Meeting

Congrats to Alan Gillespie and Jody Bourgeois!
Professor Alan Gillespie was honored with the Distinguished Career Award from the Quaternary Geology and Geomorphology Division
Professor Jody Bourgeois was honored with the Gerald M.

Sep 29, 2021 |

General

QRC members part of $25M NSF-funded effort to retrieve Earth’s oldest ice core

University of Washington glaciologists will join colleagues from around the country in a new effort to discover Antarctica’s oldest ice and learn more about the history of our planet’s climate.
The new Center for Oldest Ice Exploration, or COLDEX, will be created under a five-year, $25 million National Science Foundation grant announced on Sept.

Nov 3, 2019 |

Announcements, General, Photo album

QRC 50th Anniversary Photo Competition Winners

Congratulations to our 50th Anniversary Photo Competition Winners!
First Place: Steve Warren
Description: Seawater freezes to the base of the Amery Ice Shelf in East Antarctica, forming clear “marine ice”. The marine ice becomes exposed to view when an iceberg capsizes.

Mar 14, 2018 |

General

QRC Members Shares Research Experience in Mongolian Glaciers with UW News

QRC member, Bataa Jigjidsurengiin, was recently featured in the UW News on his research on the glaciers in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert. Read the original article here or pasted below.

March 6, 2018
Glaciers in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert actually shrank during the last ice age
by Hannah Hickey
The simple story says that during the last ice age, temperatures were colder and ice sheets expanded around the planet.

Nov 20, 2017 |

General, Photo album

Steve C. Porter Memorial Photo Album

Stephen C. Porter, Professor Emeritus at the Department of Earth and Space Sciences of the University of Washington in Seattle, died on February 2015 at the age of 80. Steve was internationally honored and admired for his research in Quaternary geology and for his leadership, editorial, and organizational skills that helped bring Quaternary studies into greater prominence during his long career.

Nov 1, 2017 |

Announcements, Events, General

Stephen C. Porter Remembrance and Student Award Ceremony

On October 23 at the 2017 GSA ESS Alumni reception, the QRC hosted a ceremony in memory of the late Stephen C. Porter, longtime director of the Center and Editor of our journal Quaternary Research.

Sep 27, 2017 |

General, Journal

QRC members published in QR Journal, "Holocene environments of central Iturup Island, southern Kuril archipelago, Russian Far East"

QRC members, Patricia Anderson, published an article in the July 2017 issue of Quaternary Research, the interdisciplinary journal of the QRC entitled, “Holocene environments of central Iturup Island, southern Kuril archipelago, Russian Far East.”
Abstract:
Two lake records document Holocene changes in sea level, vegetation, and climate on the Okhotsk and Pacific sides of central Iturup Island, southern Kuril Islands.

Sep 5, 2017 |

Announcements, General, Journal

QRC and Cambridge University Press announce publishing partnership

The Quaternary Research Center (QRC) and Cambridge University Press are pleased to announce the formation of a new publishing partnership beginning in January 2017. Under the new partnership Cambridge University Press will publish the journal Quaternary Research on behalf of QRC