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As glaciers melt, tourism dries up in Peru’s Cordillera Blanca

Meltwater from fast-disappearing glaciers also is eating into newly exposed rock in the Cordillera Blanca mountains, turning the water rushing downstream acidic – sometimes as much as lemon juice, making it undrinkable, said John All, a climate researcher and director of the Mountain…

2018-01-17
Climate Scientists Unlock the Secrets of Blue Carbon

All of this information must be plugged into models to project how wetlands will evolve in the coming decades—and whether they will be able to keep pace with rapidly rising seas, says John Rybczyk, a wetlands ecologist at Western Washington University in Bellingham. His analysis…

2018-01-12
Climate scientists unlock secrets of ‘blue carbon’

Understanding how much carbon enters the atmosphere when a wetland is drained for agriculture or other purposes requires a more detailed understanding of the soil make-up. 

All of this information must be plugged into models to project how wetlands will evolve in the coming decades…

2018-01-09
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
Mountain goats in Olympic National Park: Their days may be numbered

But the claims of harm to vegetation were backed by sloppy science, Noss said. Physical impacts like rain, snow and ice are more likely culprits in damage to rare native plants, he said.

New science corroborates the goats’ origin story. David Wallin, a professor of…

2017-09-15
WWU to Partner with Dept. of the Interior, Four Regional Universities on New Northwest Climate Science Center 2017-08-11
Summer in the Greenhouse 2017-07-20
Huxley’s Marco Hatch Conducting Summer Field Work in the San Juans 2017-07-11
Coastal Tribes Garden Clams to Preserve Culture, Improve Health

recent study comparing a clam garden to an unmanaged shoreline showed a doubling of production in littleneck clams and quadrupling…

2017-07-07
The Map Hidden in the Pacific Northwest’s Tree Rings

But this study is important beyond just providing a long, long, long-term forecast for Portland and points east. It represents a step forward for tree ring science.

“This is a great example of where the field has been trying to go for a long time,” says Andy Bunn, an…

2017-06-29
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