Environmental Studies Department

Google has created the 2012 US Wildfire Crisis Map to dynamically track the four dozen wildfires blazing across the United States, mostly in the West.

The map, built on its Crisis Response platform, is tracking about 50 fires, including the 100,000-acre Clay complex in Utah and the…

Scott Miles, assistant professor of Environmental Studies at WWU, discusses his research into earthquake preparedness and his recent trip to the tsunami zone in Japan.