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Takeaways From 'Return To The Salish Sea'

Visionary Bert Webber, a Canadian professor emeritus at Western Washington University, is the man who came up with the…

2017-11-16
Return To The Salish Sea: Visionary Bert Webber

Bert Webber is the man who coined the phrase "Salish Sea." He is a professor emeritus from Huxley College at Western Washington University in Bellingham.

Webber says while it may be easy to see the Salish Sea as separate waterways, those waterways actually make…

2017-08-07
WWU Professor Emeritus Bert Webber to Discuss the Challenges Facing the Salish Sea Oct. 26 2016-10-10
New institute at WWU focuses on health of Salish Sea

As the new Salish Sea Studies Institute gets rolling at Western Washington, Wayne Landis is certain of one thing: It will not be creating studies that collect dust on a library shelf.

“We won’t be doing research just because it’s interesting,” says Landis, a professor of environmental…

2016-05-25
Event celebrates the Salish Sea

Oak Bay’s Barbara Adams and Jacques Sirois join a sea of guest speakers celebrating the Salish Sea and the name change of the Shaw Ocean Discovery Centre in Sidney.

The special event this Saturday, April 2, marks the official change to the Shaw Centre for the Salish Sea and raises money…

2016-03-29
Artists encouraged to share impressions of the Salish Sea

Artists from Oak Bay and around the Pacific Northwest are invited to share their impressions of the Salish Sea in a locally inspired art contest and fundraising auction.

The brainchild of Oak Bay’s Bill Smith and other volunteers with the Cattle Point Foundation, the art contest and…

2016-02-18
Chemistry, orchestra and filming in 48 hours 2015-07-22
Authors of Salish Sea book to speak at Village Books April 16 2015-04-16
Our lives and livelihoods depend on saving the Salish Sea

Bert Webber, a retired professor of environmental and marine science at Western Washington University and the driving force behind the naming of the Salish Sea, is quick to tell you that not having a name can create problems. In the early 1970s, people in Washington state were worried about the…

2015-04-10
The Northwest’s Salish Sea comes alive in new book

Perhaps you remember the squabbles a few years ago over the effort to incorporate a new name, “the Salish Sea,” into the cartography of inland waters running from Olympia up to Campbell River, British Columbia. This was an international issue of identity – or lack thereof.

2015-04-02
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