Biology Department
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| Former resident named to change biology education | Joann Otto, a former East County resident and daughter of the late Sen. Glenn Otto and Helen Otto, has become one of 40 scientists tasked with changing how life sciences are taught. Otto is a professor and chairwoman of the biology department at Western Washington University in Bellingham… |
2012-09-17 | |
| Moths Of The Pacific Northwest | A Western Washington University biology professor, along with hundreds of other naturalists, biologists and moth collectors, has launched a comprehensive website to keep track of local moths. Turns out we have our fair share in the Pacific Northwest. We look at the region's diversity of… |
2012-08-06 | |
| Moths hold the spotlight in first comprehensive guide to Northwest species | Butterflies are easy to love, but their night-flying cousins have always been a little harder to cozy up to. A group of Northwest biologists hopes to change that with the first comprehensive guide to the region's moths. |
2012-07-27 | |
| WWU, Bellingham collector help launch new website exploring Pacific Northwest moths | Lars Crabo's hunt for a moth once took him to sandy soil near Vale, Ore., in the mid-1990s. It was hot, dry, dusty and desolate that night. Crabo wore shorts, sandals or maybe it was beat-up boat shoes, and a head lamp. There were black widow spiders crawling all over the ground, and… |
2012-07-27 | |
| National Moth Week kicks off with release of photographic encyclopedia of Northwest moths | It's National Moth Week. Have you made plans yet? Merrill Peterson, a biology professor at Western Washington University, has. With the help of colleagues from around the world, he has released an online encyclopedia of Northwest moths. This new catalog includes high-… |
2012-07-24 | |
| Professor launches encyclopedic moth website | 2012-07-20 | ||
| Biodiversity helps sustain human life, scientists say | Experts worldwide have long talked about the importance of preserving the diversity of life for the sake of beauty and wonder, or in the hopes of new medical discoveries, or for moral reasons. |
2012-06-08 | |
| WWU biologist: Loss of plant biodiversity could affect ecosystems as much as global climate change, pollution | The scientists gathered at a workshop in California knew that shrinking biological diversity affects an ecosystem's plant growth, based on the many experiments that have shown just that. |
2012-05-07 | |
| Biodiversity loss from species extinctions may rival pollution and climate change impacts | Species extinction and loss of biodiversity could be as devastating for the earth as climate change and air pollution. That's the finding of a new study by a group of scientists from nine countries. The research aims for the first time to comprehensively compare the consequences of… |
2012-05-03 | |
| Scientists: Extinctions Just as Damaging as Climate Change | A new paper in the prestigious science journal Nature assesses one of the big questions in ecology today: How do species extinctions rack up compared to other global change issues like global warming, ozone holes, acid rain, and nutrient pollution (overfertilization)? |
2012-05-03 |