Geology Department
| Title | Authored on | Link to edit Content | |
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| Geologist: groundwater depletion, quakes linked | 2014-05-14 | ||
| In memoriam: Chris Suczek, 1942 - 2014 | 2014-05-02 | ||
| Can trees uncover pollution patterns? WWU geologist to discuss April 24 | 2014-04-22 | ||
| Geologist: Ancient Whatcom County slides dwarf the Oso disaster | Geologist Don Easterbrook scoffed when he heard news reports that called the Oso slide on the Stillaguamish River the biggest in the United States. The Stillaguamish slide on March 22, 2014, killed more than 30 people, dammed the river and shut down a state highway. Its estimated volume… |
2014-04-14 | |
| Whatcom County has its share of hazardous slide areas, too | While Whatcom County has no known landslide threats that compare to the one that devastated the Oso community along the Stillaguamish River's North Fork on March 22, hilly portions of the county are dotted with areas where small-but-dangerous slides have occurred in recent years. Dan… |
2014-03-25 | |
| New name sought for Bellingham waterfront park | Could it be Maury Schwartz Beach Park, Jerry Flora Waterfront Park, 12th Man Park, Heron's Landing or Hooligan Beach Park? Or some other name among the nearly 330 submitted to the city of Bellingham for a proposed waterfront park south of the intersection of Pine Street and Cornwall… |
2014-03-24 | |
| A conversation with Scott Linneman | 2014-02-20 | ||
| Dakota Creek bridge will get seismic retrofits | While significant earthquakes don’t happen very often in Whatcom County, the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is making sure that if one does occur the Dakota Creek Bridge on Peace Portal Drive will be ready to rock and roll. On February 11, Whatcom County Council… |
2014-02-13 | |
| In memoriam: Maury Schwartz, 1925 - 2013 | 2014-01-09 | ||
| Rock-solid wedding for Whatcom couple | On a geological scale, the time that lapsed between when Niki and Doug Clark met each other and when they started to date was infinitesimally small. Doug, an associate professor of geology at Western Washington University, and Niki, an EMT for Whatcom County Fire District 8, first crossed… |
2014-01-06 |