Geology Department
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| DeBari creates teaching module as part of NSF grant | 2015-02-04 | ||
| Making a difference — Honoring women in male-dominated careers | Melissa Rice is an Assistant Professor of Planetary Science at Western Washington University, where she teaches in the Geology Department and the Physics & Astronomy Department. Her research focuses on the sedimentology, stratigraphy and mineralogy of planetary surfaces; the current aim… |
2015-01-30 | |
| Curiosity beyond Earth | As the sun rises and 8 a.m. gleams on her clock, Melissa Rice prepares for the next eight hours of her day. Rice’s agenda for the day includes conference calls with scientists from around the world, as well as planning for the future of the Mars rover: Curiosity. |
2015-01-16 | |
| WWU professor helps craft marching orders for Mars rover | These are exciting days for the earthbound scientists who study Mars. Data from a NASA rover creeping across the red planet’s surface is rewriting our understanding of Mars’ geological history and offering tantalizing clues to the possibility that the planet once harbored life — or, possibly,… |
2014-12-26 | |
| Rock Trail brings dramatic geology up close | The aptly named Rock Trail weaves between towering sandstone walls and truck-sized boulders before descending toward Lost Lake. And if you’ve hiked here through all seasons and explored every nook and cranny as Bellingham geologist George Mustoe has, you would notice one compelling detail:&#… |
2014-11-17 | |
| Chuckanut’s Rock Trail brings dramatic geology up close | The aptly named Rock Trail weaves between towering sandstone walls and truck-sized boulders before descending toward Lost Lake. And if you’ve hiked here through all seasons and explored every nook and cranny as Bellingham geologist George Mustoe has, you would notice one compelling detail:&#… |
2014-11-13 | |
| Chuckanut’s Rock Trail brings dramatic geology up close | The aptly named Rock Trail weaves between towering sandstone walls and truck-sized boulders before descending toward Lost Lake. And if you’ve hiked here through all seasons and explored every nook and cranny as Bellingham geologist George Mustoe has, you would notice one compelling detail:&#… |
2014-11-06 | |
| Former White House staffer to discuss politics of climate change Oct. 7 | 2014-10-06 | ||
| North California quake: 160 people injured | A study, led by geologist Colin Amos from Western Washington University and published earlier this year in a journal, Nature, showed a possible link between earthquakes and the drought in the state, and found that a lack of water in the San Joaquin Valley is decreasing the weight on the San… |
2014-08-25 | |
| 63 trillion gallons of groundwater lost in drought, study finds | The U.S. Drought Monitor has declared much of California to be in a state of "exceptional drought." According to the Western Regional Climate Center in Reno, Nev., 2013 was California's driest in 119 years of records, and Los Angeles and other cities around the state… |
2014-08-25 |