#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.
Hu: Tale of Tribal Disenrollment
Jane C. Hu earned February’s High Country News cover story with her report on former Nooksack Tribal Councilwoman Carmen Tageant. Jane goes beyond why and how Tageant was bullied out of the Council with a complex background story of personal, political, and judicial...
Harris: Brin’s Secret
In a scoop for the Daily Beast, Mark Harris has a reveal about the disaster relief force Global Support and Development. The organization has sent first responders to the sites of hurricanes, volcanoes, and wildfires. Thanks to Mark, we now know who is behind GSD....
Ricketts: Racists Thought He was Racist
In a timely essay, Wendell Ricketts gives us the backstory on a scientist best known for a five-volume illustrated series on fossils published in the 1830s and 1840s. In “Louis Agassiz: A Wider context for a Scientific Legacy,” Wendell writes that Agassiz was a...
Gaines, Wilcox: Llamas, Poop, and COVID
Got COVID-19 questions? SciShow videos have answers. Christie Wilcox and James Gaines were part of the team that found fun, informative ways to explain how to track SARS-CoV-2 in sewage and how llamas might be the key to treating COVID-19. Christie, James, and the...
Weinberger: Corona-camping
We can now camp in some areas in Washington, Hannah Weinberger writes for Crosscut…But do we want to? Hannah interviews people who have taken overnight wilderness trips recently about their preparations and their experiences. Especially helpful is Hannah’s four tips...