#NSWASCIWIRE
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.
Walton: Affordable Water Act
It’s a basic need that's becoming more costly, writes Brett Walton. In Circle of Blue, which reports on water and other global resources, Brett describes California’s drive to be the first state to subsidize water service for poor residents. He talks with policymakers...
Ma: Major Migration
When the climate changes, animals move, Michelle Ma writes for UW Today. But as temperatures rise, where exactly will they go? Michelle links to an informative, interactive, and hypnotic map developed by the University of Washington and The Nature Conservancy....
Larson: Where was Stormpocalypse?
What happened? Samantha Larson visits meterologist Cliff Mass to find out why predictions of a massive October windstorm didn’t live up to the hype. Paradoxically, she writes in Crosscut, the answer is that weather data and modeling are improving. Samantha is the...
Forster: Integrating Autism
Social learning by kids with autism, writes Kate Forster, might be enhanced if they have time to learn and play with typically developing children. Kate writes about a project in Seattle Public Schools to study the effectiveness of this approach. See this and other...
Ross Scanlan: Northwest Story
For readers on your gift list, Adrienne Ross Scanlan has a new book, Turning Homeward: Restoring Hope and Nature in the Urban Wild. In this just-released work from Mountaineers Books, Adrienne tells of creating a home in the Pacific Northwest by working as a citizen...