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| National Geographic features Western research | |||
| Jellyfish boom prompts research by plane and boat | Western's Jennifer Purcell, a marine scientist at Western's Shannon Point Marine Center, is working with state and federal agencies to investigate a massive jellyfish bloom in Puget Sound. |
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| Researchers probe how much sulfide Puget Sound eelgrass can withstand | What’s green, thin, slimy and sways in the water? It’s eelgrass, an often unseen marine plant that is important for the environment and economy in the Puget Sound region. The eelgrass in Puget Sound is sort of like a canary in a coal mine for the underwater world, serving as an… |
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| Researchers cautious about slow sea star recovery on North Olympic Peninsula while hundreds of new juveniles crop up elsewhere | The North Olympic Peninsula's remaining sea stars may be holding their own, but there is no evidence yet of a remarkable recovery of young sea stars seen elsewhere along the Pacific coast, researchers say. With nearly all of the mature sea stars dead and gone, rarely seen juvenile… |
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| Baby starfish offer a glimmer of hope for recovery | Emerging from a recent dive 40 feet below the surface of the Puget Sound, biologist Ben Miner wasn't surprised by what he found: The troubling disease that wiped out millions of starfish up and down the West Coast had spread to this site along the rocky cliffs of Lopez Island. |
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| Starfish babies offer glimmer of hope amid mass die-off | In scattered sites along the Pacific Coast, researchers and others have reported seeing hundreds of juvenile sea stars, buoying hopes for a potential comeback from sea star wasting disease that has caused millions of purple, red and orange sea stars to curl up, grow lesions, lose limbs and… |
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| Erika McPhee-Shaw to Speak on Pacific Coast Ecosystems on April 9 at Western | |||
| Lecture to cover delicate balance of West Coast water quality | |||
| Ceremony introduces Flora building | |||
| ²ÝÁñÉçÇø 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. |