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| What is pink snow? Researchers work to answer your pink snow questions | On a sunny, cool day in the North Cascades, researchers hiked around an alpine lake to find samples of algae that look like pink-colored snow. Recent days had brought a fresh coat of actual snow -- and they used shovels and boots to brush aside the top layer, revealing light red underneath.鈥 |
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| 草榴社区鈥檚 Robin Kodner Secures $1.9M NSF Grant to Support DEI Initiatives in Scientific Societies | |||
| Algae blooms that cause pink snow could accelerate melting as Earth warms | 鈥淭here never used to be any funding for this kind of work,鈥 says , a biologist at Western Washington University who鈥檚 at the forefront of a new push to understand what folks in the Pacific Northwest call 鈥渨atermelon snow鈥 鈥斺 |
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| Why is some of our snow turning pink? | Why is snow turning pink?"There's a group of algae that have adapted to live in the snow habitat," said Robin Kodner, the lead scientist for the at Western Washington University. "But they only start to鈥 |
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| Pink snow is alive in the Cascade Range and it鈥檚 causing climate change | It鈥檚 not a trick of the light and you are not going crazy, pink snow does exist. In the spring and summer months, snow in Whatcom County鈥檚 mountains can turn pink. The color comes from an algae that can be found in alpine regions across the globe, and is more common than people think, said鈥 |
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| Why snow is turning pink at high altitudes | AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: You've heard of white snow, maybe even gray snow, but what about pink snow? High up in the mountains across the U.S., rapid growth of algae, or algal blooms, are turning melting snow pink. They further darken the surface of the snow and make it melt more quickly, and鈥 |
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| Call of the light draws Western student to study bioluminescent plankton | |||
| This phenomenon in Bellingham Bay is still a mystery to researchers. They want your help | Lucy Greeley is going to spend her summer researching the glowing bioluminescence in Bellingham Bay, and you can too. Bellingham鈥檚 Community Boating Center has teamed up with Western Washington University on a new citizen science initiative: Visitors who join the nonprofit鈥檚鈥 |
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| Research Recap for Feb. 19 | |||
| Twenty-four ways to turn outdoor passion into citizen science | Skiers, mountaineers and others who spend time around the Northern Cascades are sought by the , a program that studies pink snow, an occurrence that causes the snow in a glacier to take on a reddish-pink鈥 |