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| ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Receives New $1 Million Grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute | |||
| In spring, we see colorful willows growing pine cones | Sandbar willow can also be laden with aphids, which are typically protected by ants that harvest excess sugars passed by aphids. Amy Savage and Merrill Peterson, both based at Western Washington University, examined relative abundances of ants, aphids and midges, which… |
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| ²ÝÁñÉçÇø faculty explore the pitfalls - and incredible potential - of genetic editing | |||
| ²ÝÁñÉçÇø's Eric DeChaine to Continue His Climate-Change Research in Greenland This Summer | |||
| After shocking die-off, Oregon sea stars stage an epic comeback | All good outbreaks run their course. A community perishes or perseveres. And purple sea stars (Pisaster ochraceus) off the Oregon coast have picked survival. They’re mounting an epic comeback, after a sea-star wasting disease decimated the marine animals in 2014. It’s no secret that… |
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| Fullerton aims to identify purpose of underwater microbes | |||
| Sea star wasting disease starting to fade as scientists identify factors in mass die-off | The disease that killed millions of the once-ubiquitous sea stars seems to be fading. Marine biologists are zeroing in on the combined factors — including a rise in water temperature — that resulted in the devastation of the sea star population on the Pacific Coast, from Mexico to Alaska… |
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| Inaugural winners of Diversity and Social Justice Grants announced | |||
| Seals prefer quiet times for the call of the wild, study suggests | Marine scientists call it a roar, though it sounds more like someone breathing heavily on the other end of the phone. It’s the underwater mating call of a male harbour seal and it could be at risk of being drowned out by the din of motor vessels. The first study of its kind has… |
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| Learn to ID birds, help with survey at Cherry Point reserve | Learn how to identify 15 common marine birds and put the skill to use for upcoming bird surveys at the Cherry Point Aquatic Reserve. The free classes will be taught by Audubon experts Paul Woodcock and Pam Borso, and by John Bower, a Western Washington University professor and… |