by Chris Tachibana | Feb 2, 2020 | ScienceWire
Look around, Seattleites! Kelly Brenner has a new book, Nature Obscura: A City’s Hidden Natural World, to help us savor the wildlife around us that we ignore as we solowheel around our city. Kelly’s guide to urban flora and fauna from Mountaineers Books is out...
by Chris Tachibana | Feb 2, 2020 | ScienceWire
A polynya, writes freelance journalist Julia Rosen, is an open expanse of water—an oasis—amid sea ice. Julia (@1juliarosen) won the 2019 Best of the Northwest Science Writing Award for Journalism for her story, “Oasis of Open Water” in @hakaimagazine....
by Chris Tachibana | Feb 2, 2020 | ScienceWire
Susan Keown takes us through the twists and turns of a clinical mystery—why a cancer that responded to T-cell immunotherapy became resistant. Susan (@sejkeown) won the 2019 Best of the Northwest Science Institutional Writing Award for her story, “Revealing a new way...
by Chris Tachibana | Feb 2, 2020 | ScienceWire
Kimberly Cauvel shows off our local blue carbon—meaning ocean and coastal carbon-sequestering systems—with a story about eelgrass meadows in the Skagit wetlands. “Seeing Blue,” Kimberly’s story in the Skagit Valley Herald, was the Honorable Mention for our 2019 Best...
by Chris Tachibana | Feb 2, 2020 | ScienceWire
Wayne Gillam wrote the Honorable Mention story for the 2019 Best of the Northwest Science Institutional Writing Award. Wayne’s feature for the University of Washington Center for Neurotechnology (@ctr4neurotech) is “New approach to spinal cord rehabilitation creates...
