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Recent work by our members

#nswasciwire highlights the published writing of NSWA members each month. Would you like to see your writing featured? Please suggest an item online or send a link or PDF file to Susan Keown at sciencewire@nwscience.org. The NSWA Board of Directors determines what material to present. We look forward to highlighting your work.

Siegel: Immune System Changes

Siegel: Immune System Changes

For the Allen Institute, Jake Siegel writes about how populations of T cells change over the lifespan, shedding new light on why we all become more vulnerable to infection as we age. Using a new method developed at the institute, the researchers discovered a new...

Braun: Indigenous Fire Management Brings Water

Braun: Indigenous Fire Management Brings Water

For bioGraphic, Ashley Braun brings us to the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas to learn about how the North Fork Mono Tribe is revitalizing cultural burning practices to encourage the growth of culturally significant native plants, control pests and invasive species,...

Scigliano: Exclusions in Disaster Risk Index

Scigliano: Exclusions in Disaster Risk Index

For Politico, Eric Scigliano writes about the many local geological hazards that are not, somehow, accounted for in FEMA’s new National Risk Index. The ambitious federal project intends to map disaster risks across the country to aid in the allocation of funds for...

Steinberg: Exploring the Ocean’s Abyss

Steinberg: Exploring the Ocean’s Abyss

For Oregon State University’s Strata Magazine, Nancy Steinberg profiles the work of Astrid Leitner, who studies areas of the ocean that have rarely — or never — been explored. Steinberg explains the tools and techniques the scientist uses to observe and take samples...

Dzombak: Future of Washington’s Wildlife Agency

Dzombak: Future of Washington’s Wildlife Agency

Rebecca Dzombak writes for High Country News about a backlash to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife’s draft conservation policy, amid concerns from hunters and sport fishers that their use of public lands is being sidelined, and from Indigenous groups...