Doug Clark

Devoting your life to something that is disappearing can be tough.

Portland State University professor Andrew Fountain has been researching the dwindling glaciers of the American West since the 1980s. He said for years, he studied their retreat dispassionately — as an interesting…

If you ask someone in Bellingham to join you for a 2.6-mile walk, the odds are good they’ll know what location you’re talking about.

The trail that loops around Lake Padden is a popular place to walk, jog or run anytime of the year. And that just begins to tap the activities that attract…

Kim Malcolm talks to Doug Clark, associate professor of geology at Western Washington University, about the different types of ice caves, how they are formed and their risks.

On a geological scale, the time that lapsed between when Niki and Doug Clark met each other and when they started to date was infinitesimally small.

Doug, an associate professor of geology at Western Washington University, and Niki, an EMT for Whatcom County Fire District 8, first crossed…

On March 26, 2013, a long-retired faculty member of our department, Don Easterbrook, presented his opinions on human-caused global climate change to the Washington State Senate Energy, Environment and Telecommunications Committee at the invitation of the committee chair Sen. Doug Ericksen, R.-…

Washington pilot and photographer John Scurlock describes Washington's mountains as picturesque, awe-inspiring and extremely alluring - especially in winter. 

They are mighty and majestic, but the North Cascade Range is so remote and rugged that the only way…