Environmental Sciences
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| WWU researchers find potentially harmful levels of pollutants in the Salish Sea’s edible seaweeds | 2022-09-26 | ||
| WWU professor's quest to document melting in Earth's frozen lands | Mountains and snow have always beckoned biogeochemist Alia Khan. The Western Washington University assistant professor conducts research on the cryosphere, or Earth’s frozen environments. Her work has taken her to the Himalayas, the Chilean Andes, the Arctic and, most recently, Antarctica. … |
2022-04-04 | |
| State pauses logging of this 130-year-old forest near Nooksack River in Whatcom County | Planned logging of a more than century-old forest near the Nooksack River’s Middle Fork has been paused, according to a Friday, Jan. 28, email the state Department of Natural Resources sent to community members who had contacted the agency regarding the sale. The nearly 89-acre “Upper… |
2022-01-31 | |
| The Nooksack River is in “grave danger,” warns Whatcom scientist with numbers to back it up | The Nooksack River is in “grave danger” of experiencing irreversible changes and ecosystem collapse if Whatcom County doesn’t rapidly reform the way it manages nearby human activity. That was the warning that Western Washington University environmental sciences associate professor John… |
2022-01-18 | |
| Research Recap for Oct. 29: Ecological work in the Gulf of Alaska, the geology of the North Olympic Fault zone, and more | 2021-10-29 | ||
| VCU leads effort to launch national consortium of universities offering hands-on river education | In addition to Vonesh, the co-principal investigators and senior partners include … |
2019-07-31 | |
| Officials moved nearly 100 mountain goats from the Olympics last summer. How are they doing now? | Four undergraduate students at Western Washington University will visit the translocated goats, now dispersed throughout the mountain range, over a seven-week stretch this summer. The students will take four-day trips, traveling several miles toward the goats’ GPS… |
2019-07-03 | |
| Alia Khan's Global Quest for Snow and Ice, and What it Tells Us About Our Changing Planet | 2019-04-19 | ||
| WWU's Erika McPhee-Shaw Elected to Chair to Prestigious Gordon Research Conference | 2019-04-18 | ||
| Faculty Awards & Recognition Ceremony set for April 25 | 2019-04-08 |