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| Lizard Field School | Student biologists learn the how-to's of wildlife research by studying the life and death of lizards in Oregon's Alvord desert. For 15 years Dr. Roger Anderson has been leading students on a three-week immersion into lizard ecology and behavior. Students cope with the primitive… |
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| WWU Chemistry senior claims research award at annual Murdock Conference | |||
| WWU Environmental Studies grad student models potential habitat for highly endangered local butterfly | |||
| WWU’s Eric DeChaine, biology students establish two GLORIA sites in the Olympic Mountain Range | |||
| Mount Vernon's floodwall a model for future flood protection | Robert Mitchell, a geology professor at Western Washington University, said resilient flood infrastructure will likely become more common out of necessity. He said that based on models he and his graduate students use to simulate how rivers in the area react to weather data, flooding will… |
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| Critical A.I. Literacies Collective hosts Winter Teach-in on AI in Education Feb. 2 | |||
| ‘Two-headed hydra’ worsens regional flooding | Robert Mitchell, a hydrology professor at Western Washington University, works with numerical modeling to study how Western Cascade basins, including the Nooksack, are responding to warming climates. He’s found that as temperatures rise, winter precipitation will increasingly fall as rain… |
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| Cross-border flood reduction plan to aid B.C., American communities not expected for two years | The status update report from Washington State noted that Indigenous knowledge, as well as geological and archeological evidence, indicate that the mainstem Nooksack River flowed through what is now the Sumas Prairie and into the Fraser River as recently as several hundred years ago.… |
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| Whatcom, Skagit floods resurrect painful memories of past disasters | And flooding is expected to increase “tremendously” by the end of the century due to climate change, said Bob Mitchell, a Western Washington University professor who studies hydrogeology. Warmer temperatures mean more frequent and intense atmospheric rivers, such as… |
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| How Western Washington’s ‘100-year’ floods are changing | On Wednesday, a “GO NOW” evacuation notice was issued for people living in the “100-year flood” zone in Skagit Valley, a large area which includes Burlington, La Conner, Lyman and Hamilton, as well as parts of Mount Vernon and Sedro-Woolley. But that term is a bit of a misnomer. It… |