College of the Environment

Title		Authored on
A story only a tree can tell	It’s a Skagit Valley mystery more than 2,300 years in the making. Where did a 300-year-old tree — from around the time of the death of Alexander the Great — come from, and how did it end up under 11 feet of muck and mud in Joe Leary Slough?	2015-02-24
Julann Spromberg to Speak on Mortality Syndrome in Coho Salmon Feb. 19 at Western		2015-02-17
Joel Swisher working to expand degree offerings at Institute for Energy Studies at ��	Joel Swisher, the new director of the Institute for Energy Studies at Western Washington University, stumbled across the institute by chance after his son enrolled at Western. At the time, Swisher, 57, was living in Boulder, Colo., where he was an independent…	2015-02-17
�� marine center lets students plunge into science	It’s a drizzly, February day, but the spirits of the elementary school students at Western Washington University’s Shannon Point Marine Center are bright as they scour the beach for signs of marine life. Some of them find limpets and barnacles, others find crawly creatures with claws that…	2015-02-17
Canada, Seattle’s neighbor to the north? Nope, better check your map	A CENTURY AGO, during America’s expansionist heyday, no one ever saw author and “Manifest Destiny” cheerleader Horace Greeley point across the sweeping expanse of America and urge his eager charges: “Go north, young man!” Yet, many of us did. And to this day, most…	2015-02-17
Huxley to hold environmental career fair Feb. 12		2015-02-09
Rybczyk to speak on rising sea levels Feb. 13		2015-02-05
VIDEO: Strom conducts research on Alaska fisheries		2015-02-05
�� to bring youth programs to Anacortes		2015-02-04
Jerry Ek to Speak on Resilience Theory and the Mayan Civilization Feb.5 at Western		2015-01-30

A story only a tree can tell

It’s a Skagit Valley mystery more than 2,300 years in the making.
Where did a 300-year-old tree — from around the time of the death of Alexander the Great — come from, and how did it end up under 11 feet of muck and mud in Joe Leary Slough?

2015-02-24

Julann Spromberg to Speak on Mortality Syndrome in Coho Salmon Feb. 19 at Western

2015-02-17

Joel Swisher working to expand degree offerings at Institute for Energy Studies at ��

Joel Swisher, the new director of the Institute for Energy Studies at Western Washington University, stumbled across the institute by chance after his son enrolled at Western.

At the time, Swisher, 57, was living in Boulder, Colo., where he was an independent…

2015-02-17

�� marine center lets students plunge into science

It’s a drizzly, February day, but the spirits of the elementary school students at Western Washington University’s Shannon Point Marine Center are bright as they scour the beach for signs of marine life.
Some of them find limpets and barnacles, others find crawly creatures with claws that…

2015-02-17

Canada, Seattle’s neighbor to the north? Nope, better check your map

A CENTURY AGO, during America’s expansionist heyday, no one ever saw author and “Manifest Destiny” cheerleader Horace Greeley point across the sweeping expanse of America and urge his eager charges: “Go north, young man!”

Yet, many of us did. And to this day, most…

2015-02-17

Huxley to hold environmental career fair Feb. 12

2015-02-09

Rybczyk to speak on rising sea levels Feb. 13

2015-02-05

VIDEO: Strom conducts research on Alaska fisheries

2015-02-05

�� to bring youth programs to Anacortes

2015-02-04

Jerry Ek to Speak on Resilience Theory and the Mayan Civilization Feb.5 at Western

2015-01-30

��������

��