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| The Rebirth of the Elwha | To understand how the Elwha is bouncing back, I contacted John McLaughlin, Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Western Washington University. McLaughlin is an expert on the Elwha biome, having published numerous papers on the subject. His passion is unbridled… |
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| Four WWU grads earn certificates from River Management Society | |||
| Epic Floods in Pacific Northwest Revive a Long-Running Dispute Over How to Manage a River | In November, when a string of catastrophic storms hit the Pacific Northwest, the Nooksack River flooded, submerging farming communities in both the US and Canada. Cows were swept away, and farmers raced to save them on boats and jet skis. By the time the waters subsided, thousands of farmers and… |
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| State pauses logging of this 130-year-old forest near Nooksack River in Whatcom County | Planned logging of a more than century-old forest near the Nooksack River’s Middle Fork has been paused, according to a Friday, Jan. 28, email the state Department of Natural Resources sent to community members who had contacted the agency regarding the sale. The nearly 89-acre “Upper… |
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| The Nooksack River is in “grave danger,” warns Whatcom scientist with numbers to back it up | The Nooksack River is in “grave danger” of experiencing irreversible changes and ecosystem collapse if Whatcom County doesn’t rapidly reform the way it manages nearby human activity. That was the warning that Western Washington University environmental sciences associate professor John… |
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| Inside Environmental Science's Spring Field Camp | |||
| Huxley faculty participating in pilot NSF grant for new RiVER Field Studies Network | |||
| Soon We May All Be Suffering from Climate Whiplash | The classic study for ecosystem impacts from increasing climate variability is a 2002 paper published about the checkerspot butterfly, a subspecies that was wiped out in the San Francisco Bay area, partially because of habitat loss—… |
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| Climate Whiplash: Wild Swings in Extreme Weather Are on the Rise | “These butterfly populations were driven to extinction because of variability” in precipitation, said John McLaughlin, an ecologist at Western Washington University who worked on the study. “We should be paying a lot more attention to these kinds of things.” |
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| VCU leads effort to launch national consortium of universities offering hands-on river education | In addition to Vonesh, the co-principal investigators and senior partners include … |