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Pushing Past the Pandemic: Research 'crawling back' at Shannon Point Marine Research Center

While the labs, halls and dorms at Western Washington University's Shannon Point Marine Center remain quieter than normal, some research has resumed, and plans are taking shape to make way for more.

"It has definitely been a slowdown," the center's Director of Marine and Coastal Science…

2021-03-29
WWU Grad Student Working to Turn Mussel Waste into Aquaculture Gold 2020-10-27
WWU Grad Student Working to Turn Mussel Waste into Aquaculture Gold 2020-10-12
Brian Bingham Named WWU Director of Marine and Coastal Sciences 2019-06-14
This could be why the water off the coast has been reddish-brown in parts of Whatcom

Wondering what’s causing the marine water in parts of Whatcom County to look strange — sort of rusty red or rusty brown?

The Whatcom County Health Department has been getting reports about it in Birch Bay and near Drayton Harbor, officials said, referring to the phenomenon as red-colored…

2018-07-17
Women Researchers at Shannon Point Inspire Students

Not far down the road from the Anacortes ferry landing is an important marine research center that has studied everything from seaweed to ocean waves to ocean acidification since the 1970s. Once primarily a field station for Western Washington University, it now has community outreach programs…

2018-07-05
WWU's Shannon Point Marine Center adds degree program

Western Washington University students will have another degree option available to them at the university’s Shannon Point Marine Center.

As part of the state’s 2018 supplemental budget, the Legislature approved the university’s plan to shift $1.5 million in local funds to state bond…

2018-05-03
Interim Director takes over at Shannon Point Marine Center

Brian Bingham will serve as interim director of Western Washington University’s Shannon Point Marine Center.

Bingham, a professor of environmental sciences in Western’s Huxley College of the Environment, began his duties last week.

He was appointed to the…

2018-02-07
Huxley's Brian Bingham Named Interim Director of WWU’s Shannon Point Marine Center 2018-01-31
Funding cut for program working to cultivate diversity in Marine Science

Western’s Shannon Point Marine Center was recently praised in American Scientist magazine for its efforts to diversify the field of marine sciences.

However, its chief multicultural program was cut in spring 2015 due to a lack of funding.

The Multicultural Initiative in the Marine…

2016-02-23
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