Shannon Point Marine Center

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Funding cut for program working to cultivate diversity in Marine Science	Western’s Shannon Point Marine Center was recently praised in American Scientist magazine for its efforts to diversify the field of marine sciences. However, its chief multicultural program was cut in spring 2015 due to a lack of funding. The Multicultural Initiative in the Marine…	2016-02-23
New high-tech buoy key to monitoring health of Bellingham Bay	A new buoy about two miles out in Bellingham Bay is collecting streams of data around the clock that scientists and students will use to monitor the health of north Puget Sound and the Salish Sea.	2016-02-22
New Bellingham Bay buoy helps students, scientists gather data in marine waters		2016-02-12
How to Recruit and Retain Underrepresented Minorities	I became interested in science in the 1970s, when African Americans and U.S. Hispanics comprised only 5 percent of the STEM workforce: As a third grader growing up in Oak Cliff, which at the time was a predominately African American community in Dallas, Texas, I was given a class assignment as…	2016-02-09
WWU Marine Scientist Suzanne Strom Honored With Prestigious ASLO Fellowship		2015-12-11
WWU’s Shannon Point Marine Center Commons named after Steve Sulkin		2015-11-18
New summer stipends honor president Flora, support marine biology students		2015-10-19
Starfish Are Still Dying, But Here's Reason for Hope	It's been three years since millions of sea stars from Alaska to Canada and down to Baja, Mexico started wasting away into gooey white mounds. And although the destruction wrought by this disease shows no signs of stopping, the pace of the die-off has slowed. That's partly because so…	2015-09-16
National Geographic features Western research		2015-09-16
Jellyfish boom prompts research by plane and boat	Western's Jennifer Purcell, a marine scientist at Western's Shannon Point Marine Center, is working with state and federal agencies to investigate a massive jellyfish bloom in Puget Sound.	2015-08-06

Funding cut for program working to cultivate diversity in Marine Science

Western’s Shannon Point Marine Center was recently praised in American Scientist magazine for its efforts to diversify the field of marine sciences.

However, its chief multicultural program was cut in spring 2015 due to a lack of funding.

The Multicultural Initiative in the Marine…

2016-02-23

New high-tech buoy key to monitoring health of Bellingham Bay

A new buoy about two miles out in Bellingham Bay is collecting streams of data around the clock that scientists and students will use to monitor the health of north Puget Sound and the Salish Sea.

2016-02-22

New Bellingham Bay buoy helps students, scientists gather data in marine waters

2016-02-12

How to Recruit and Retain Underrepresented Minorities

I became interested in science in the 1970s, when African Americans and U.S. Hispanics comprised only 5 percent of the STEM workforce: As a third grader growing up in Oak Cliff, which at the time was a predominately African American community in Dallas, Texas, I was given a class assignment as…

2016-02-09

WWU Marine Scientist Suzanne Strom Honored With Prestigious ASLO Fellowship

2015-12-11

WWU’s Shannon Point Marine Center Commons named after Steve Sulkin

2015-11-18

New summer stipends honor president Flora, support marine biology students

2015-10-19

Starfish Are Still Dying, But Here's Reason for Hope

It's been three years since millions of sea stars from Alaska to Canada and down to Baja, Mexico started wasting away into gooey white mounds. And although the destruction wrought by this disease shows no signs of stopping, the pace of the die-off has slowed. That's partly because so…

2015-09-16

National Geographic features Western research

2015-09-16

Jellyfish boom prompts research by plane and boat

Western's Jennifer Purcell, a marine scientist at Western's Shannon Point Marine Center, is working with state and federal agencies to investigate a massive jellyfish bloom in Puget Sound.

2015-08-06