Biology Department
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| New commercial fisheries chief named | State Fish & Game Commissioner Cora Campbell today announced the appointment of Jeff Regnart as director of the Division of Commercial Fisheries. Regnart started yesterday. He had been regional supervisor with the Division of Commercial Fisheries, Central Region. |
2011-02-18 | |
| WWU's Donovan to discuss summer marine biology course in Mexico at Feb. 15 event | 2011-02-09 | ||
| Biology Department to present guest seminars in Feb. | 2011-02-01 | ||
| Whatcom County CPR study may help save lives across nation | Heart attack patients across the country may have a better chance of surviving and returning to their regular lives, thanks in part to research work done by Whatcom County paramedics. |
2011-01-25 | |
| Several Biology Dept. seminars planned for early winter quarter | 2011-01-04 | ||
| Nice Vest! A touch of neon halts harassment of New Zealand seals | It’s an old saw among officials responsible for protecting everything from porcupines to penguins: “We don’t manage wildlife, we manage people.” Now, researchers in New Zealand have put a neon twist on preventing people from bugging wildlife. They found that simply placing a volunteer wearing a… |
2010-12-09 | |
| Presence of observers prevents fur seal attacks | Further to the recent attacks on fur seals in Kaikoura, comes a timely study just published in Conservation Biology. Alejandro Acedevo-Gutierrez and Lisa Acedevo of Western Washington University, and Laura Boren, DoC’s national marine mammal coordinator, found that the presence of an official-… |
2010-12-09 | |
| Blue whale feeding methods are ultra-efficient | Foraging whales must have high densities of krill for their feeding methods to be effective, says Alejandro Acevedo-Gutiérrez of Western Washington University in Bellingham. Lunge feeders "have to get more bang for the time underwater, so to speak", he says. |
2010-12-09 | |
| Urging evolutionary biologists into the fray | Davis’ climate change work spans not just geographical distance, but temporal distance as well. With help from colleague Eric Dechaine at Western Washington University, he is gathering data from fossilized squirrel middens in Alaska from as long ago as 100,000 years to examine how plant… |
2010-11-19 | |
| WWU's 'Neuroscience on Tap' continues Nov. 1 at Bob’s Burgers and Brew in downtown Bellingham | 2010-10-28 |