Geology Department
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| Subject of WWU grad student's thesis work highlighted in National Geographic | 2017-12-07 | ||
| WWU’s real-life Rocket Girl will chat with ‘The Martian’ author | One’s a sci-fi writer who’d never, ever, fly in space. The other’s a NASA scientist who won’t rule out a trip aboard a rocket ship. But in a sense, both of them have been to the Red Planet – and they took many space enthusiasts with them. |
2017-11-27 | |
| Finding Fault(s): Geologists Keep Finding More Nearby Earthquake Makers | Shallow, active earthquake faults are being discovered all over Oregon and Washington state. Collectively, these may present a higher risk than the better known offshore Cascadia subduction zone. There's a line on a map for an active earthquake fault running through the forested… |
2017-11-21 | |
| Geology's Brady Foreman publishes new article in Science Advances | 2017-10-27 | ||
| Climate Change, Snowmelt, and Salmon: WWU Faculty Probe for Answers on How to Save a Pacific Northwest Icon | 2017-10-18 | ||
| Geology's Liz Schermer publishes new article in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 2017-09-29 | ||
| Study confirms large earthquakes along Olympic Mountain faults | To gain a better understanding of the age, number, and magnitude of earthquakes on the faults, Elizabeth Schermer at Western Washington University and her colleagues plan additional trenching of fault scarps and coring of swampy areas along some scarps later this year. The new BSSA study… |
2017-09-28 | |
| Washington’s forgotten volcano before St. Helens | It was almost exactly five years before that infamous peak in southwest Washington rumbled to life when Mount Baker, east of Bellingham in the … |
2017-07-12 | |
| Summer Field Work: Geology seniors take to the road for capstone course | 2017-07-12 | ||
| WWU Receives New $1 Million Grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute | 2017-06-09 |