Robert Mitchell
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| Logging forests takes this toll on already-strained Nooksack River, new research suggests | The Nooksack River is under enormous strain, as development brings its ecosystems to the brink of collapse and climate change chokes summer water supply by reducing the region’s annual snowpack. Recent research shows there is another party that should very likely be held partially… |
2022-03-21 | |
| 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 | |
| Research Recap for April 16 | 2021-04-16 | ||
| Pair of Western Graduate Students Awarded Northwest Climate Center Research Fellowships | 2020-02-04 | ||
| What role does WWU play in the climate change movement? | Western Washington University students, staff, environmental journalists and activists describe the Bellingham, Wash., school's role in the climate change movement in 2019. |
2019-12-26 | |
| Here’s how warming in the Cascades impacts the Nooksack River in Whatcom County | As the temperature of the region increases because of climate change, the snowpack is reduced to higher and higher elevations causing changes in the creeks and rivers that flow from the mountains, according to Robert Mitchell, who is a professor at Western Washington… |
2019-12-24 | |
| Scientists, tribe study shrinking Washington state glacier | Mauri Pelto digs his crampons into the steep icy slope on Mount Baker in Washington state and watches as streams of water cascade off the thick mass of bare, bluish ice. Every 20 yards, the water carves vertical channels in the face of the glacier as it rushes downstream. What little snow… |
2015-09-09 | |
| Scientists study shrinking Washington state glacier | Mauri Pelto digs his crampons into the steep icy slope on Mount Baker in Washington state and watches as streams of water cascade off the thick mass of bare, bluish ice. Every 20 yards, the water carves vertical channels in the face of the glacier as it rushes downstream. What little snow… |
2015-08-28 | |
| WWU faculty find overwhelming scientific evidence to support global warming | On March 26, 2013, a long-retired faculty member of our department, Don Easterbrook, presented his opinions on human-caused global climate change to the Washington State Senate Energy, Environment and Telecommunications Committee at the invitation of the committee chair Sen. Doug Ericksen, R.-… |
2013-04-01 |