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WWU's Spark Science podcast explores diversity and accessibility in the sciences 2021-09-30
U.S. News Ranks WWU as Top Public Master’s-Granting School in Pacific Northwest for the 22nd Straight Year 2021-09-16
In Memoriam: Arlie Norman 2021-08-05
Inside the Delta Variant: A conversation with Western’s virologist, Gerry Prody  2021-08-04
This is what the heat wave did at Mount Baker and what that means for Whatcom County

Bob Mitchell, a professor of hydrogeology at Western Washington University, said that if the planet’s warming trend continues, Mount Baker’s glaciers will keep retreating and the Nooksack could become fed by rainfall, rather than by glacial melt.

“We’re predicting that the snowline will…

2021-07-12
Earthquake initially centered in Farmington was ‘phantom’ but felt real to residents

Jackie Caplan-Auerbach, a seismologist at Western Washington University, explained it this way in a series of Twitter posts:

“Location algorithms can sometimes yield an incorrect location, though. This is because they are somewhat tuned to what they expect to record. For example, a…

2021-07-09
Research Recap for July 2: Hemophilia and the Restoration of the Elwha valley forests 2021-07-02
Meet the 2021 Presidential Scholars 2021-06-18
Will a volcanic eruption be a burp or a blast?

Perhaps monitoring from space will become the best way to see future phreatic eruptions coming. But so far, no successful long-term forecast of a phreatic eruption has taken place. “Phreatic eruptions are terrifying,” said …

2021-06-07
Research Recap for May 28 2021-05-28
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