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This U.S.-Canada ‘international incident’ is just what we needed

Includes a photo of Cindy Elliser, associate director of the Salish Sea Institute. “The Salish Sea, the focus that we have at the Institute, is that showing everybody that the Salish Sea is one giant connected ecosystem and that we should be managing it together rather than separately,”…

WWU faculty work in Canadian-American studies will be showcased at Seattle conference this month
Marine mammalogist featured speaker for Oct. 9 Environmental Series at Waterfront Center

Cindy R. Elliser — a marine mammalogist, associate director of the Salish Sea Institute at Western Washington University and founder and research director of Pacific Mammal Research (PacMam) — is the featured speaker for the latest in…

Collaboration across borders needed to protect whales, WWU report says

Orcas and humpback whales spend their summers zipping between the San Juans and the Gulf islands, blissfully unaware that they’re crossing the invisible line that marks the U.S. border with Canada. 

“Animals don’t care about it, but it’s so ingrained in us that these lines exist,”…

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