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Bert Webber: Father of “The Salish Sea”
6.24.10
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Bert Webber | biology | CST | faculty
Retired WWU professor gets wish, region gets new place name
11.2.09
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Bert Webber | faculty | marine ecology | Stefan Freelan

Almost two decades ago, Bert Webber proposed a new name for the marine area consisting of Puget Sound, the Strait of Georgia and the Strait of Juan de Fuca: "Salish Sea."

On Friday, Oct. 30, the retired professor of marine ecology at Western Washington University got his wish. The Washington Board of Geographic Names voted 5-1 to approve his idea. The board's counterpart in British Columbia, where much of those waters lie, also approved the new name.

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