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WWU's Troy Abel named to the EPA's environmental justice panel 2024-02-20
Research recap: Students working on new research in anthropology and environmental sciences 2024-01-25
Crab DNA study examines possible distinct populations

The Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe is working with a diverse group of partners to learn more about the population structure of Puget Sound's Dungeness crab by studying the DNA of both larvae and adults.

(story behind a paywall, but features WWU's Jay Dimond)

2024-01-24
WWU faculty, alums collaborate on new display at the Museum of Northwest Art 2024-01-17
WWU monitors say Lake Whatcom water quality showing signs of improvement

“When humans make changes, anything that kinda disturbs the watershed, those activities have the potential to release sediment, that can run off into the lake. That sediment often contains pretty high levels of phosphorus,” Angela Strecker, director of the Western Washington University Institute…

2023-12-18
Western Washington University to partner in $30M NSF Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science   2023-12-14
It's only a matter of time before a tsunami hits the Northwest. Why is it missing from FEMA's risk analysis?

Washington State’s Emergency Management Division calculates that nearly 90,000 people live or work in the outer coast’s inundation zone, and there are another 86,000 more along inner waterways that the waves will take longer to reach. On a summer day, they could be joined in the danger zone by…

2023-12-14
Second Call for 2024-2025 Honors Seminar Proposals  2023-12-01
Water Watchdogs: Inside the Work of WWU’s Institute for Watershed Studies 2023-11-27
Applications for WWU's Sustainability Pathways summer program in the Methow Valley now open 2023-11-22
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