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While Whatcom County has no known landslide threats that compare to the one that devastated the Oso community along the Stillaguamish River's North Fork on March 22, hilly portions of the county are dotted with areas where small-but-dangerous slides have occurred in recent years.

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Here’s a novel idea that could flip high-school science education on its head:

Instead of teaching biology as the first course for high-school freshmen, start instead with physics.

That’s one of the many ideas burbling from the mind of Scott Linneman, a geology professor at Western…

On March 26, 2013, a long-retired faculty member of our department, Don Easterbrook, presented his opinions on human-caused global climate change to the Washington State Senate Energy, Environment and Telecommunications Committee at the invitation of the committee chair Sen. Doug Ericksen, R.-…

Western Washington University Professor of Geology Scott Linneman has been named the state’s Higher Education Science Teacher of the Year by the Washington Science Teachers Association.
Linneman, who has taught at Western since 2000, received the award at the National Science Teachers…

Scott Linneman, a professor of geology at Western Washington University, has been selected as the state’s higher education science teacher of the year by the Washington Science Teachers Association.

He received his award Thursday, Dec. 8, at National Science Teachers Association…