Environmental Science
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| The Clean Water Act turns 50: A Q&A with WWU's Jean Melious and Angela Strecker | 2022-10-25 | ||
| Swinomish Tribe builds U.S.’s first modern ‘clam garden,' reviving ancient practice | It takes a butter clam about three years to grow to harvestable size, according to Western Washington University marine ecologist and Samish Nation member Marco Hatch. “What we're doing here is something that hasn't been done in living memory, which is build a clam… |
2022-09-13 | |
| Photo Gallery: 24 hours in the field with the Salish Sea Biodiversity, Culture, and Conservation class | 2022-08-17 | ||
| How Indigenous Sea Gardens Produced Massive Amounts of Food for Millennia | For those who know how to read them, the signs have long been there. Like the towering mound of 20 million oyster shells all but obscured by the lush greenery of central Florida’s Gulf Coast. Or the arcing lines of wave-weathered stone walls strung along British Columbia’s shores like a necklace… |
2022-07-20 | |
| Call of the light draws Western student to study bioluminescent plankton | 2022-06-30 | ||
| Oysters were harvested sustainably for thousands of years by Indigenous peoples, study finds | Indigenous communities had harvested oysters for thousands of years before they were colonized by Europeans, who then oversaw the rapid collapse of these sustainable fisheries, according to … |
2022-06-03 | |
| Indigenous oyster fisheries were ‘fundamentally different’: Q&A with researcher Marco Hatch | According to a new study, Indigenous communities in North America and Australia sustainably managed oyster fisheries for more than 5,000 years before Europeans and commercial fisheries arrived. The knowledge of these… |
2022-06-02 | |
| Pink snow algae research grows for Western Washington University | We’ve all seen snow turn from white to gray and black, maybe a ruddy brown color when it has been sitting next to a busy road or sidewalk. We’ve seen snow take different shapes and appearances depending on temperatures and ice crystal shapes. But have you ever seen pink snow? Sometimes… |
2022-05-11 | |
| Help ID snow algae | Desert Research Institute is seeking volunteers to look for snow algae as part of the Living Snow Project. The project, a partnership with Western Washington University, aims… |
2022-04-07 | |
| Research Recap: A Chemistry grad works in cancer care, research on local herring populations and publication for Behavioral Neuroscience students | 2022-04-04 |