John Rybczyk

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Research Recap for Oct. 1: WWU gets a new Germanium detector, and inside the life of the pinto abalone 2021-10-01
Recreation Northwest looks to Western’s Wetland Ecology Students for help

Wetland monitoring reports have been  professionally prepared and submitted by Perry at Welch Ecological Services LLC.  This year, which is monitoring project Year Three, Recreation Northwest was fortunate to engage students from Western Washington University to collect and summarize…

2021-01-06
Recreation Northwest looks to Western’s Wetland Ecology Students for help

Wetland monitoring reports have been  professionally prepared and submitted by Perry at Welch Ecological Services LLC.  This year, which is monitoring project Year Three, Recreation Northwest was fortunate to engage students from Western Washington University to collect and summarize…

2021-01-06
Transient orca pod makes a splash with visit to Bellingham Bay 2020-05-27
Rising Northwest waters bring tough choice: fight or flight

While the treatment plant on the Skagit is standing its ground, that approach won’t work everywhere.

One river to the south, Katrina Poppe and John Rybczyk sledge-hammered a white, meter-long tube of plastic into the mud.

Rybczyk sported mud boots and shorts;…

2019-10-28
Study: Restoring Washington wetlands can fight climate change

A new study out of Western Washington University found restored wetlands stored a significant amount of carbon from the atmosphere, showing promise in the efforts to mitigate climate change.

Dr. John Rybczyk and his research assistant Katrina Poppe compared the rate of carbon being…

2019-09-05
The Realities of Climate Change: What WWU scientists see in the field 2019-02-14
Researchers probe into region’s ‘blue carbon’

wo recent studies by researchers at Western Washington University evaluated the carbon content in eelgrass meadows in Skagit County.

2019-01-22
Climate Scientists Unlock the Secrets of Blue Carbon

All of this information must be plugged into models to project how wetlands will evolve in the coming decades—and whether they will be able to keep pace with rapidly rising seas, says John Rybczyk, a wetlands ecologist at Western Washington University in Bellingham. His analysis…

2018-01-12
Climate scientists unlock secrets of ‘blue carbon’

Understanding how much carbon enters the atmosphere when a wetland is drained for agriculture or other purposes requires a more detailed understanding of the soil make-up. 

All of this information must be plugged into models to project how wetlands will evolve in the coming decades…

2018-01-09
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