Washington State Department of Natural Resources geographer and Western Washington University alumnus Michael Grilliot speaks about rising sea levels in Puget Sound.
Western Washington University’s Urban Transitions Studio will present sustainable urban planning concepts from 7-10 p.m. on Wednesday, March 10, in the Council Chambers in City Hall at 210 Lottie St. in Bellingham.
The presentation, which is free and open to the public, will include a concept proposal for revitalizing downtown Bellingham’s retail core and a proposal for transitioning single-use retail zones into New Urbanism neighborhoods.
Wayne G. Landis (Institute of Environmental Toxicology/Huxley College) and Peter T. Bryant (Outstanding Senior 2008, Environmental Science Department) had their paper "Using Weight of Evidence Characterization and Modeling to Investigate the Cause of the Changes in Pacific Herring (Clupea pallasi) Population Dynamics in Puget Sound and at Cherry Point, Washington" published in the international journal "Risk Analysis."
Washington State Department of Natural Resources geographer and Western Washington University alumnus Michael Grilliot will speak about rising sea levels in Puget Sound at 3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 26, in Communications Facility 125 on the WWU campus.
The event is free, open to the public and is part of the WWU Huxley College of the Environment Speaker Series.
Wendy Walker, a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Studies in Huxley College of the Environment, will lead a discussion at 4 p.m. today, Feb. 11, about developing real-world projects for students. Walker's presentation is titled “Inviting the Real World to Help You Teach: Examples, Strategies and Rewards.” She will speak about empowering students to guide their own learning—where the final product matters to people and issues outside academia.
Faculty members from the anthropology, sociology and environmental studies departments are getting together from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 16, in Academic Instructional Center West Room 204 to discuss the recent earthquake and ongoing humanitarian situation in Haiti, says Scott Miles, an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at Western Washington University.
Gigi Berardi (Environmental Studies) wrote the cover story for the February 2010 issue of Dance Magazine. The story traces the trials and challenges in the career of Brazilian ballerina Carla Korbes, from New York to Seattle.
How much of what ends up in waste bins at Western Washington University's dorms is actually garbage?
That's what some environmentally minded students are trying to answer.
On Tuesday, Feb. 2, members of the Huxley chapter of the Air and Waste Management Association gathered data on waste disposal in three residence halls: Mathis, Nash and Edens. They didn't go around and ask students about their habits; instead, they sorted through bags and piles of trash to see first-hand what ends up in the bins.
Students in Western Washington University’s Huxley College of the Environment will be studying real-world environmental problems at a contaminated site in Anacortes.
The Huxley Student Chapter of the Air and Waste Management Association will be conducting a Waste Audit from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 2, in the south end of Red Square by Carver Gym on the Western Washington University campus.
Trash from the three dorms will be sorted to determine how much of what is thrown into the garbage is either recyclable or compostable.
“This event is part of a long term effort to reduce WWU’s waste stream, and give proof for more composting and recycling resources on campus,” said Devin Mounts, Huxley AWMA member.
Geoff Middaugh, former 1st Deputy Director of Bureau of Land Management National Landscape Conservation and independent contractor for the United States Agency for International Development, will speak at 3 p.m. Friday, Jan. 22, in Communications Facility Room 125 at Western Washington University.
The event is free, open to the public and is part of the WWU Huxley College of the Environment Speaker Series.
Huxley College of the Environment at Western Washington University plans to present a half-day, hands-on introduction to the Global Positioning System (GPS) from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 16. Topics covered include the GPS System and the GPS equipment available at WWU.
The workshop includes a classroom presentation as well as lab and field experience and will take place in Arntzen Hall Room 16 and outdoors. This event will take place rain or shine.
The Environmental Studies Building at Western Washington University houses Huxley College of the Environment and the Geology Department. Let's take a look inside. Photos by Michael Leese | WWU intern
Mike McAuley began a four-year term as a Port of Bellingham commissioner Monday and got off to a quiet start.
McAuley unseated 16-year incumbent Doug Smith at the polls in November, promising to take a fresh look at port plans for a new marina and other waterfront projects. But facing an uncontroversial agenda filled with the housekeeping items that typically occupy the first meeting of the year, McAuley voted with holdover commissioners Jim Jorgensen and Scott Walker to approve every item on the agenda, except for his abstentions on approval of minutes from previous meetings.
Alejandro Bancke found the perfect match for his planning and mapping skills at the Columbia River Estuary Study Taskforce in Astoria.
Bancke, 27, (pictured left) moved here from Portland almost exactly a year ago to work as a land-use planner and geographic information systems (GIS) specialist, building maps and helping local governments with planning and development.
"When I saw the job description for CREST, I said, 'Wow, it fits me perfectly,'" he said.
Here are some of the Whatcom County stories and issues that made significant headlines from 2000 to 2009, had a lasting impact and are still talked about today.
Western Washington University’s Resilience Institute, part of the Huxley College of the Environment, has entered into an agreement with the Washington State Emergency Management Division (WAEMD) to conduct an analysis of state-level policies around the country related to seismic mitigation – the reduction of damage and loss due to earthquakes.
Five Western Washington University Environmental Education graduate students are working with three mixed classes of fourth- and fifth-graders at Bellingham’s Columbia Elementary School to redesign some of the school grounds with a focus on providing new wildlife habitat, the latest of several projects involving the school grounds as a common resource for learners from kindergarten through grad school.
After a task force's 18 months of work and more than 100 meetings, City Council members heard how limited energy resources globally could have an impact locally.
Members of the Bellingham/Whatcom County Energy Resources Scarcity/Peak Oil Taskforce recommended tying their work to how the county manages emergencies, especially if there is a shortage of oil and other energy resources, as well as things that need fuel to get here, like food.
No recommendations were approved or adopted by the council Monday night, Dec. 7, after the presentation.
The Huxley College Speaker Series at Western Washington University presents Nick Hedley, of Simon Fraser University, who will speak on "Serious Games in Space and Geospatial X-ray Vision: Exploring New Modes of Visualizing Complex Environmental Phenomena" at 3 p.m. today in Communications Facility Room 125. This presentation is free and open to the public.
The world's oldest trees are getting fatter at the highest reaches of their habitat.
The fact that bristlecone pines, which live for up to 5,000 years, grow better in warmer weather is no shock, in itself.
Researchers say, though, that the unprecedented growth spurt of the past 50 years is another signal that temperatures are warming more rapidly on mountaintops, where cooler temperatures are needed to regulate snow melt for downstream water needs.
Increasing temperatures at high altitudes are fueling the post-1950 growth spurt seen in bristlecone pines, the world's oldest trees, according to new research. Pines close to treeline have wider annual growth rings for the period from 1951 to 2000 than for the previous 3,700 years, reports a University of Arizona-led research team. Regional temperatures have increased, particularly at high elevations, during the same 50-year time period.
A Kenyan-themed community dinner at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church is part of an effort to raise awareness of the country’s problems with scarce water and sanitation.
Organizers who are part of the Streams of Mercy Water Initiative hope the event raises money to build a water well in Kisii, a village in southwest Kenya.
“It’s a big water access issue in Kisii and then in northern Kenya it’s a real drought issue,” Michael Hughes, a church member and co-chair of the Streams of Mercy Water Initiative said. “We’re hoping to improve and save lives in Kenya.”
Skagit Bay, Port Susan, Possession Sound, Tulalip Bay, Port Gardner, Puget Sound.
The names of the inland waters along the coastline of Snohomish County won’t change, but now they’re part of the Salish Sea.
And the people who care may never have to listen again to the bogus term “North Puget Sound.”
The state Board on Geographic Names recently agreed to use Salish Sea as the regional name for the complex 5,500-square-mile body of water that includes the Georgia Strait, the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Puget Sound and everything else in between.
The Huxley College Speaker Series at Western Washington University will host Coll Thrush of the University of British Columbia at 3 p.m. today, Nov. 13, in Western's Communications Facility Room 125.
Thrush will present "Imagining Urban Indigenous Landscapes - Thoughts from Seattle, Vancouver, and London." This presentation is free and open to the public.
