Robin Kodner
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| VIDEO: Climbing for the origins of life | Dr. Robin Kodner regularly goes to extremes in the name of science. That’s because the microscopic algae she studies live only on glaciers and snowfields high in the mountains. At 2 billion years old, these single-celled colonies predate plants, animals and even fungi. By observing these archaic… |
2020-02-24 | |
| Bizarre watermelon snow appearing on Pacific NW mountains | Watermelon snow is one of nature's peculiarities. Scientists don't fully understand it, or the long-term impact it could have on the environment. Here's one thing they do know: Watermelon may look neat but it's not something conservationists want to see. According to a study in… |
2018-06-12 | |
| Puget Sound waters are turning orange and Cascade snow is becoming pink. Neither are good signs | Meanwhile, high up in the Cascades and Olympics, so-called watermelon snow is making an appearance. The phenomenon is also caused by algae. This one is called Chlamydomonas nivalis, and it loves cold. … |
2018-06-11 | |
| Strange ‘watermelon snow’ appearing on Washington mountains | A strange phenomenon is appearing in the mountains of the Pacific Northwest. Big, pink ponds are dotting the higher elevations -- a result of something called "watermelon snow." "Everyone was confused," said Dr. Robin Kodner, an assistant professor of biology at Western… |
2018-06-08 | |
| WWU researcher continues watermelon snow project | Western Washington University biology professor Robin Kodner, who is leading “The Living Snow Project,” shared updates about the research Wednesday as part of the university’s annual “Science and the UniverCity” lecture series that is free and open to the public. “… |
2018-05-29 | |
| WWU’s Robin Kodner to Discuss ‘The Living Snow Project’ May 23 at City Hall | 2018-05-08 | ||
| ‘We can all be scientists’: Here’s how | At its heart, so much about the scientific discoveries that have moved human civilization forward comes down to one thing: data. For hundreds of years, this paradigm has ruled the scientific process – scientist collects data, scientist analyzes data, scientist comes to conclusion based… |
2018-04-04 | |
| The Origin Story of Animals Is a Song of Ice and Fire | If the Age of Algae had never dawned, we wouldn’t be here. |
2017-08-17 | |
| Citizen scientists track effects of climate change in the Northwest | Meanwhile, on the snow-covered slopes of the North Cascades, skiers and climbers have been patrolling for “watermelon snow,” or sections that look as if they’ve been dusted with red Kool-Aid powder. It’s actually snow algae blooming on or beneath the surface,… |
2017-08-07 | |
| WWU’s Fraser Lecture Series to Host ‘Big Data’ Seminars, Discussions in April | 2016-03-22 |