Michael Medler
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| Our ancestors may have harnessed and used fire much earlier than we thought | The ability to harness and control fire was a crucial turning point in our human evolution; perhaps the crucial turning point in determining the type of humans we are today. We are unique among animals in that humans eat a diet rich in both cooked and “nonthermally processed” food. Our… |
2012-04-04 | |
| WWU Creates Map For Avalanche Forecast | A new web site has been launched to help those going into the back country keep tabs on avalanche conditions. The interactive site was created by the institute for spatial information and analysis at Western Washington University’s Huxley College of the Environment. |
2012-03-08 | |
| New website maps avalanche dangers in Washington mountains | Normally, professor Michael Medler focuses his research on fires in forests, but when a student he knew died in an avalanche, his thoughts turned to snow in the mountains. |
2012-03-05 | |
| Web map displays daily avalanche danger levels | Backcountry skiers and snowboarders have a new tool to explore regional daily avalanche-danger levels. |
2012-03-05 | |
| WWU's Huxley College creates avalanche-hazards website | Backcountry skiers and snowboarders have a new tool to explore regional daily avalanche danger levels. A web-based map, created by students and faculty at Western Washington University, takes the regional avalanche forecasts issued by the Northwest Weather and Avalanche Center and… |
2012-03-02 | |
| WWU researcher says early humans may have captured fire from lava flows | As a professor of geography, Michael Medler knows to ask "Why here?" |
2011-07-28 | |
| WWU researcher proposes lava flows, fires influenced human evolution | Western Washington University associate professor of Environmental Studies Michael Medler has recently published a new hypothesis about factors that influenced human evolution. |
2011-05-23 | |
| WWU's Medler publishes new hypothesis on human evolution | 2011-05-18 | ||
| In the search for what made us human, a new take on the importance of fire | Somewhere long ago rolled back into the ancient mists of time are key players in a long life or death drama. The players in that drama are those things, places and beings that molded us, shaped us, helped create that which we now see ourselves as – modern Homo sapiens. One of those… |
2011-05-18 |