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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.

Grunbaum: Whitebark Pine and Clark’s Nutcracker

Grunbaum: Whitebark Pine and Clark’s Nutcracker

Writing for Audubon Magazine, Mara Grunbaum follows a snowshoeing scientist as she searches the Cascades for the Clark’s nutcracker. Due to a convergence of threats, stands of the birds’ favorite tree are becoming harder to find. The seeds of the critically endangered...

Hickey: North Atlantic Marine Productivity

Hickey: North Atlantic Marine Productivity

Hannah Hickey writes for UW News about new research in ice cores that suggests the condition of North Atlantic’s phytoplankton populations is not as dire as scientists have feared. Phytoplankton — tiny floating photosynthesizers — are at the base of the ocean’s food...

Yanny: AI in Medicine

Yanny: AI in Medicine

Anna Marie Yanny coauthored a piece for the Stanford Medicine Magazine about how artificial intelligence is having an impact on medical care — primarily, for now, in imaging — with a focus on research based at Stanford. It shines a light into new advances coming in...

Cole: Science, Humanity, and International Politics

Cole: Science, Humanity, and International Politics

In an essay for Scientific American, KC Cole looks at the aftermath of the United States’ China Initiative, which was designed to ferret out cases of economic espionage and other misdeeds by China in the U.S. but had the side effect of disrupting productive...

Yan: Investing in Social Determinants of Health

Yan: Investing in Social Determinants of Health

In STAT, Wudan Yan covers a first-of-its-kind experimental program in North Carolina that helps at-risk families access healthy foods and safe housing. The program aims to address some of the social factors that can have major impacts on health. Yan talks to several...