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| 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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| ‘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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| 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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| Research finds reducing pollution can also speed warming | Bob Mitchell is an engineering geology professor at Western Washington University. He’s also a member of the Skagit Climate Science Consortium, a scientist-led nonprofit. Mitchell’s initial reaction to work on marine cloud brightening was “that’s pretty cool.” “It’s a cool gee whiz… |
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| ONE QUICK QUESTION: The Chuckanut Drive landslide | |||
| Logging forests takes this toll on already-strained Nooksack River, new research suggests | The Nooksack River is under enormous strain, as development brings its ecosystems to the brink of collapse and climate change chokes summer water supply by reducing the region’s annual snowpack. Recent research shows there is another party that should very likely be held partially… |
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| This is what the heat wave did at Mount Baker and what that means for Whatcom County | Bob Mitchell, a professor of hydrogeology at Western Washington University, said that if the planet’s warming trend continues, Mount Baker’s glaciers will keep retreating and the Nooksack could become fed by rainfall, rather than by glacial melt. “We’re predicting that the snowline will… |
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| Research Recap for April 16 | |||
| Pair of Western Graduate Students Awarded Northwest Climate Center Research Fellowships | |||
| What role does WWU play in the climate change movement? | Western Washington University students, staff, environmental journalists and activists describe the Bellingham, Wash., school's role in the climate change movement in 2019. |