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WWU's Melissa Rice to Speak May 28 about Mapping Mars 2019-05-14
WWU's Melissa Rice to Speak May 28 about Mapping Mars 2019-05-14
WWU Mars Researchers Look Through Curiosity’s Eyes to Analyze the Red Planet's Ancient Geology 2019-05-03
Kilauea could erupt again after peace and quiet, claims expert

But there is still activity at the Hawaii volcano and on Sunday morning UK time geologists recorded powerful magnitude 4.2 quakes at Kilauea.

The US Geological Survey (USGS) recorded the earthquake at a distance of 12 miles southeast of Kilauea and at a depth of more than three miles.…

2019-04-30
Between a Rock and a Hard Plate: How to Save Your Metamorphic Sole 2019-04-26
A Year in the Life of a Glacier: A skier’s research tests new methods of monitoring glaciers

The birds chirp a dawn chorus and the winter rain has diminished. The disparity between the snowy alpine and the verdant lowlands is increasingly stark. Stubborn patches of snow make the rugged forest road impassable and the snowmobile crew has jerry-rigged a winch system to pull their burly…

2019-02-19
California Institute of Technology's James Keane to present "The Wibbly Wobbly Moon: The Rotational History of the Earth's Moon" 2019-02-15
A prolific vent in a Hawaii volcano blew for 35 years. It has just stopped

Around that time, in the same place - the spring of 1995, at the end of Chain of Craters Road - a Yale physics-and-English graduate was pondering where to do her postgraduate study. Kilauea sold her on the spot. Today Jackie Caplan-Auerbach is a geology professor at Western…

2019-02-14
The Realities of Climate Change: What WWU scientists see in the field 2019-02-14
Video: Robert Mitchell discusses snowmelt modeling on the Nooksack 2019-01-16
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