Biology Department
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| Botanist enlists citizen scientists | While earning his master’s at Western Washington University, Bloom and his research assistant, Matt Kniepp, studied 76 alpine sites in the Rocky Mountain chain, looking at how climate change and wildfires are affecting one high-elevation wildflower species, the spotted… |
2018-01-10 | |
| Western students take top two spots in national computer science competition | 2017-11-16 | ||
| Researchers document eelgrass wasting disease in Skagit, San Juan counties | While continuing to collect data from those 11 research sites — now as part of a partnership with Western Washington University’s Shannon Point Marine Center in Anacortes — Eisenlord has seen signs of eelgrass wasting increase and decrease at different locations. … |
2017-11-06 | |
| 'The People Who Count Fish:' One student's summer on Kodiak Island | 2017-10-11 | ||
| 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 Receives New $1 Million Grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute | 2017-06-09 | ||
| In spring, we see colorful willows growing pine cones | Sandbar willow can also be laden with aphids, which are typically protected by ants that harvest excess sugars passed by aphids. Amy Savage and Merrill Peterson, both based at Western Washington University, examined relative abundances of ants, aphids and midges, which… |
2017-03-24 | |
| WWU faculty explore the pitfalls - and incredible potential - of genetic editing | 2017-01-23 | ||
| WWU's Eric DeChaine to Continue His Climate-Change Research in Greenland This Summer | 2016-05-10 | ||
| After shocking die-off, Oregon sea stars stage an epic comeback | All good outbreaks run their course. A community perishes or perseveres. And purple sea stars (Pisaster ochraceus) off the Oregon coast have picked survival. They’re mounting an epic comeback, after a sea-star wasting disease decimated the marine animals in 2014. It’s no secret that… |
2016-05-05 |