#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.
Reuter: A Steller Project
Where are the Steller sea lions?, asks Rebecca Reuter in two features for the NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center Quarterly Research Report. To find the endangered pinnipeds in the Alaskan summer fog, writes Rebecca, NOAA researchers have to take risks get creative....
Ostrander: Go GMOs
Madeline Ostrander @madelinevo harvested a bumper crop of kudos and quarrels for her balanced article in The Nation on GMOs, anti-GMO activists, big agro corporations, and the FDA—all fighting over your dinner. Madeline takes a 360-degree view of the issue in "Can...
Lindley: Neuro-origins
Fall means football, head injuries and neuroscience. Robin Lindley, writing for History News Network @myHNN, links the latter two in an interview with science writer Sam Kean. Their conversation uncovers how brain trauma and illness are the basis for modern...
Pajer: Seattle, 1901: Edison v. Bradshaw
What's Thomas Edison looking for in Elliott Bay and can University of Washington Professor Benjamin Bradshaw find it first? Go to Bernadette Pajer's book event at 6 pm, Saturday 27 September at the UW Jacobsen Observatory UW Campus, 4324 Memorial Way NE, Seattle to...
James: Downsizing
Move over micro, writes Sally James (@jamesian) in Alaska Airlines Magazine. Smaller is better and nano is newer. Read her story to see how scientists at the University of Washington are developing next-generation nanocomponents of cars, solar panels, and water...