The years-long study also looked at how climate change is impacting the timing of the bloom each year.
SEATTLE —
University of Washington (UW) scientists are in the final stages of publishing research that better predicts the timing of the campus’ cherry blossom bloom, an iconic sight in Seattle.
UW PhD candidate Autumn Maust took over the research project in 2020 but said it started years prior. She said student data collection started in 2018 and the tree’s bloom timing was tracked beginning in 2012. Plus, researchers collected media from newspaper clippings and photos dating back to the 1960s to analyze the bloom timing.
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