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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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| Local events: A ghost walk, a cider fest and a buggy open house | WWU Insect collection open house1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17Western Washington University Biology Building, 516 High St., BellinghamIf all-ages events are more your speed, you can take your kids (or a date, or yourself) to see… |
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| The Race Is On to Stop an Armored Invader on the West Coast | In Willapa Bay in southwestern Washington, the situation is beyond early detection. It’s the worst-hit spot in the state. Of the 4.7 million crabs the state has removed since 2022, a majority were pulled from the shallow, 120-square-mile bay. (WWU alum) Emily Grason, a… |
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| Planned gift will establish Western’s first endowed deanship, fund research and scholarships | |||
| Explore, restore and celebrate the Sehome Hill Arboretum at Arboretum Day, May 30 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Outdoors: Sea lion numbers, appetites grow | With chinook stocks diminished and recreational fisheries constrained by low runs, a recently published research article by Makah Fisheries Management and Western Washington University studied how much juvenile chinook are eaten by Steller sea lions in the marine waters of northwest Washington… |
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| PAT NEAL: This otter work | This latest culinary trend is illegal in Washington, where scientists are still studying the problem of this devastating invasive species. Currently, important research is being conducted at Neah Bay, where biologists from Western Washington University are collecting otter… |
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| Crab Crackin’: WWU student researching how river otters might act as a natural mitigator to the invasive European green crab |