Ruth Sofield
On March 16 just after midnight, a freight train jumped its tracks on the Swinomish Reservation near Anacortes. The estimated 5,000 gallons of diesel seeping into the local landscape carried dark echoes of the Feb. 3 East Palestine, Ohio, rail disaster, where a 50-car train carrying highly…
The plants sterilize sewage and remove solids and organic materials from it. But they were never designed to remove things like antibiotics, cosmetics, hormones, pharmaceuticals, and other consumer products that wash down household drains.
“The latest estimate of the number of chemicals…
"I would say the number of chemicals that are in the environment are of concern," said Ruth Sofield, a professor of environmental toxicology at Western Washington University.
The Puget Sound is too often a dumping ground for hundreds of chemicals, according to…
Seaweeds are consumed by many people living on or near the Salish Sea – from Indigenous peoples revitalizing the ancient foodways of their cultures to those simply seeking a readily available and highly nutritious protein source - but little is known about whether contaminants in the Sea’s…
WWU Professor of Environmental Sciences Ruth Sofield has been appointed ot the Science Panel of the Puget Sound Partnership. The Science Panel's expertise and advice are critical to the Puget Sound Partnership’s efforts to develop a comprehensive, science-based plan to restore Puget…
Three Western students won first place in the Air and Waste Management Association’s 11th Annual International Environmental Challenge (ECi) Competition in Hartford, Connecticut, on June 28, 2018.
Representing Huxley College of the Environment as the fictitious consulting firm Kulshan…
As a college student, Susannah Edwards toured the Everett Shipyard cleanup site on Port Gardner Bay.
Now she's working on cleaning up the shipyard as an Ecology employee.
Susannah, a sediment specialist in training in the Toxics Cleanup Program, joined Ecology in October…
Western Washington University faculty award winners were honored May 14 at the annual Provost and Faculty Senate Spring Awards Ceremony in the Western Gallery on campus.
Wesrtern Provost Brent Carbajal and Faculty Senate President Johann Neem spoke at the event, which honored…
Faculty award winners will be honored May 14 at the annual Provost and Faculty Senate Spring Awards Ceremony.
Wesrtern Washington University Provost Brent Carbajal and Faculty Senate President Johann Neem invite WWU faculty to a reception honoring the recipients from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday…
Students in Western Washington University’s Huxley College of the Environment will be studying real-world environmental problems at a contaminated site in Anacortes.
Clean-up is under way at the former Scott Paper Mill site in Anacortes, and 17 students in the Environmental…