College of the Environment
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| How Indigenous Sea Gardens Produced Massive Amounts of Food for Millennia | For those who know how to read them, the signs have long been there. Like the towering mound of 20 million oyster shells all but obscured by the lush greenery of central Florida’s Gulf Coast. Or the arcing lines of wave-weathered stone walls strung along British Columbia’s shores like a necklace… |
2022-07-20 | |
| Meet the 2022 Outstanding Graduates from the College of the Environment and the College of Fine and Performing Arts | 2022-07-15 | ||
| Using Moss To Push Government Action in Seattle’s Duwamish Valley | When Nico Vargas spent her time mentoring teenage girls in South Seattle last year, they were just trying to make it through another day in high school – all while disproportionately burdened with air pollution. Vargas, then a… |
2022-07-13 | |
| Call of the light draws Western student to study bioluminescent plankton | 2022-06-30 | ||
| Meet the 2022 Presidential Scholars | 2022-06-03 | ||
| Oysters were harvested sustainably for thousands of years by Indigenous peoples, study finds | Indigenous communities had harvested oysters for thousands of years before they were colonized by Europeans, who then oversaw the rapid collapse of these sustainable fisheries, according to … |
2022-06-03 | |
| Indigenous oyster fisheries were ‘fundamentally different’: Q&A with researcher Marco Hatch | According to a new study, Indigenous communities in North America and Australia sustainably managed oyster fisheries for more than 5,000 years before Europeans and commercial fisheries arrived. The knowledge of these… |
2022-06-02 | |
| Teena Gabrielson named dean for WWU College of the Environment | 2022-05-25 | ||
| Pink snow algae research grows for Western Washington University | We’ve all seen snow turn from white to gray and black, maybe a ruddy brown color when it has been sitting next to a busy road or sidewalk. We’ve seen snow take different shapes and appearances depending on temperatures and ice crystal shapes. But have you ever seen pink snow? Sometimes… |
2022-05-11 | |
| Brad Johnson Named WWU’s New Provost and Executive Vice President | 2022-04-26 |