▼Posted at 05:03:23 pm on 01/08/08 |
WWU professor researching how climate change affects Bering Sea fishery |
 Courtesy of David Shull | WWU The U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy sits among hundreds of ice floes in the Bering Sea. WWU’s David Shull, an assistant professor of Environmental Science at Huxley College of the Environment, is doing research on how climate change affects the fishing industry in the area. The Bering Sea produces a catch worth $1 billion annually--half of all the seafood taken in the United States each year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Western Washington University faculty member David Shull, an assistant professor of Environmental Science at WWU's Huxley College of the Environment, is researching how climate change and global warming are affecting the prodigious sea. Shull's project is funded by a four-year, $367,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. Last spring marked the first series of data and sample collecting, which is done aboard the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy. Shull will be on the Healy twice this year, for a 40-day cruise in April and May and for a 30-day cruise in June and July. For more photos, please visit the FAST Online Image Gallery. |
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