Monday, October 29, 2007

ak in the news

Superstar Katey Walter, UAF student, IPY fellow, and now prof, was in the news again last week for getting an article published in Science. She and her co-authors propose that methane released from thawing lakes contributed a third to almost all of the increase in atmospheric methane during the past warm, interglacial period, and could have a big warming impact again.
Here's the Science abstract, and here's the story my paper did.
Walter was also featured last month by NPR.
In other news, NPR has a bit of a primer on the most important greenhouse gas, water vapor. And Doug O'Harra of Far North Science has a good explainer on this year's disappearing sea ice.

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