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The Nooksack River is in 鈥済rave danger,鈥 warns Whatcom scientist with numbers to back it up

The Nooksack River is in 鈥済rave danger鈥 of experiencing irreversible changes and ecosystem collapse if Whatcom County doesn鈥檛 rapidly reform the way it manages nearby human activity. That was the warning that Western Washington University environmental sciences associate professor John鈥

Research Recap for Oct. 29: Ecological work in the Gulf of Alaska, the geology of the North Olympic Fault zone, and more
VCU leads effort to launch national consortium of universities offering hands-on river education

In addition to Vonesh, the co-principal investigators and senior partners include 

Officials moved nearly 100 mountain goats from the Olympics last summer. How are they doing now?

Four undergraduate students at Western Washington University will visit the translocated goats, now dispersed throughout the mountain range, over a seven-week stretch this summer.

The students will take four-day trips, traveling several miles toward the goats鈥 GPS鈥

Alia Khan's Global Quest for Snow and Ice, and What it Tells Us About Our Changing Planet
草榴社区's Erika McPhee-Shaw Elected to Chair to Prestigious Gordon Research Conference
Faculty Awards & Recognition Ceremony set for April 25
Digging for indigenous science in 3,000-year-old clam beds

草榴社区's Marco Hatch, a Coastal Salish scholar, talks about the importance of bringing indigenous knowledge to Western research 鈥 and what science loses when we don't.

OK, I鈥檒l bite. What the hell is my carbon footprint?

Wait, you may be thinking, I鈥檓 not like that. But even if you鈥檙e not the kind of person who would just dump all your trash on the ground in a park for fun, your actions and energy use are taking a toll on the鈥

Is ocean acidification knocking the scents out of salmon?

The results of the new study don鈥檛 bode well for these fish, Williams says. Already, he notes, these fish and their ecosystems face a host of other pressures. Dams on some rivers, for instance, make it difficult for coho to return to spawn in their home streams. And even should they make it鈥

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