Stefan Freelan

Cartographer and geographer Stefan Freelan will discuss the process for the ‘Salish Sea’ to be recognized as an official name, and the role that the map “The Salish Sea and Surrounding Basin,” played in that process at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 20, in the Map…

Did you know that the Western interactive campus map, accessible through the WWU home page’s Map menu or by visiting www.wwu.edu/map, now has a snow route layer?

The new layer shows the areas on campus that are cleared first and have highest priority in the event of snow and ice;…

Information on construction projects scheduled for spring and summer is now available on the Western Washington University campus map.

The interactive map is the result of coordinated efforts of Academic Technology and User Services, the Huxley Spatial Institute and the Office of…

Western Washington University's new interactive campus map, created by students working with Huxley College’s Institute for Spatial Information and Analysis, is now online.

Originally released in a "beta" version this fall, the map recently has been revised and…

Almost two decades ago, Bert Webber proposed a new name for the marine area consisting of Puget Sound, the Strait of Georgia and the Strait of Juan de Fuca: "Salish Sea."

On Friday, Oct. 30, the retired professor of marine ecology at Western Washington University got his wish.…

John Bower (Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies) had his paper "Changes in marine bird abundance the Salish Sea: 1975 to 2007" published in "Marine Ornithology," Vol. 37, pp. 9-17. Western alumna (and bird censuser) Marci Durocher did the painting of the western…