Faculty Research
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| What is pink snow? Researchers work to answer your pink snow questions | On a sunny, cool day in the North Cascades, researchers hiked around an alpine lake to find samples of algae that look like pink-colored snow. Recent days had brought a fresh coat of actual snow -- and they used shovels and boots to brush aside the top layer, revealing light red underneath.… |
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| Geology’s Asmaa Boujibar gets new $300,000 NASA grant to research the building blocks of planet Mercury | |||
| WWU's Carolyn Nielsen named a 2024-2025 American-Scandinavian Foundation Fellow | |||
| Add wildfire, climate change to the list of Lake Whatcom worries | As for those less-than-dramatic pollution results, Angela Strecker, Western Washington University’s director of the Institute for Watershed Studies, explained that measures of phosphorus, dissolved oxygen and algae blooms were more or less stable, although phosphorus appeared to be declining… |
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| Music's Richard L. Hodges to perform in Seattle Opera's 'X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X' in February | |||
| Crab DNA study examines possible distinct populations | The Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe is working with a diverse group of partners to learn more about the population structure of Puget Sound's Dungeness crab by studying the DNA of both larvae and adults. (story behind a paywall, but features WWU's Jay Dimond) |
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| Upcoming Internal Grant Application Deadlines for Faculty | |||
| WWU Anthropology Faculty Tesla Monson and Marianne Brasil Secure New $550k NSF grant | |||
| SMATE faculty reel in $1.4 million NSF grant to help boost science teaching in local elementary schools | |||
| Western Washington University to partner in $30M NSF Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science |