College of the Environment

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Once-common marine birds disappearing from our coast	The bird-counters stood in the windy bow chattering into headsets and scanning the Strait of Juan de Fuca with binoculars. “Scoters,” Sherman Anderson said. “Three of them. At 11 o’clock. Look like surfs.” “Marbled murrelets,” he…	2014-07-25
Saving mountain goats with science, guts and good guesses	TO EMPATHIZE with the mountain goats of the Cascade Range, imagine the apocalypse has come and your extended family members are the only survivors on besieged Capitol Hill. Now it’s time to have children. Unless you want to marry a cousin, you must reach another…	2014-07-21
Scientists Look for Causes of Baffling Die-Off of Sea Stars	Ben Miner picks his way over slick cobble on the shore of Bellingham Bay, in northwestern Washington. He has brought me to his study site here to show me something that has become increasingly rare on the west coast of North America: a healthy community of sea stars. He stops now and…	2014-07-17
Natural asbestos problem in Burlington ‘falls in the cracks’	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency investigators prompted by a resident's concern in late 2012 tested rocks near a housing development in Burlington and found evidence of naturally occurring asbestos. Prolonged exposure to the substance found inside the rocks has been shown…	2014-07-16
Shannon Point Marine Center gets new director	Shannon Point Marine Center’s new director has officially joined the team of researchers tucked away on a 78-acre forested campus with a 3,000-foot stretch of undisturbed shoreline. The Western Washington University facility in Anacortes drew director Erika McPhee-Shaw from her former post…	2014-07-15
Western, Facing the Future to join forces		2014-07-15
From Window magazine: 'Oceans in Peril'		2014-06-30
Western students help prove the benefits of salad bars in Bellingham schools		2014-06-24
Peninsula volunteers pitching in on sea star wasting disease research	The efforts of volunteers across the North Olympic Peninsula have been vital in recent months as scientists work to uncover the secrets of a mysterious affliction eating its way through sea star populations up and down the West Coast. “Citizen scientists” have braved slippery rocks along…	2014-06-23
Photos: Nearly 2,000 graduate June 14		2014-06-16

Once-common marine birds disappearing from our coast

The bird-counters stood in the windy bow chattering into headsets and scanning the Strait of Juan de Fuca with binoculars.

“Scoters,” Sherman Anderson said. “Three of them. At 11 o’clock. Look like surfs.”

“Marbled murrelets,” he…

2014-07-25

Saving mountain goats with science, guts and good guesses

TO EMPATHIZE with the mountain goats of the Cascade Range, imagine the apocalypse has come and your extended family members are the only survivors on besieged Capitol Hill. Now it’s time to have children.

Unless you want to marry a cousin, you must reach another…

2014-07-21

Scientists Look for Causes of Baffling Die-Off of Sea Stars

Ben Miner picks his way over slick cobble on the shore of Bellingham Bay, in northwestern Washington. He has brought me to his study site here to show me something that has become increasingly rare on the west coast of North America: a healthy community of sea stars.

He stops now and…

2014-07-17

Natural asbestos problem in Burlington ‘falls in the cracks’

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency investigators prompted by a resident's concern in late 2012 tested rocks near a housing development in Burlington and found evidence of naturally occurring asbestos.
Prolonged exposure to the substance found inside the rocks has been shown…

2014-07-16

Shannon Point Marine Center gets new director

Shannon Point Marine Center’s new director has officially joined the team of researchers tucked away on a 78-acre forested campus with a 3,000-foot stretch of undisturbed shoreline.
The Western Washington University facility in Anacortes drew director Erika McPhee-Shaw from her former post…

2014-07-15

Western, Facing the Future to join forces

2014-07-15

From Window magazine: 'Oceans in Peril'

2014-06-30

Western students help prove the benefits of salad bars in Bellingham schools

2014-06-24

Peninsula volunteers pitching in on sea star wasting disease research

The efforts of volunteers across the North Olympic Peninsula have been vital in recent months as scientists work to uncover the secrets of a mysterious affliction eating its way through sea star populations up and down the West Coast.

“Citizen scientists” have braved slippery rocks along…

2014-06-23

Photos: Nearly 2,000 graduate June 14

2014-06-16