#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.
Mapes: Mapes on Vapes
Diane Mapes goes beyond the alarming headlines about teen vaping deaths to explain the risks, public policies, and research to address the problem. For Hutch News Stories, Diane writes about a smartphone app developed at Fred Hutch (@fredhutch) to help teens and young...
Heisman: Happy Camper
Rebecca Heisman didn’t expect her family’s first camping trip with their 13-month-old son to be relaxing. And it wasn’t. But, as Rebecca writes in High Country News, her second thoughts weren’t because of her kid’s high-energy curiosity on the trail. Instead, the trip...
Sharpe: Rainmaker
Lush landscaping takes high-tech monitoring, Elizabeth Sharpe writes for University of Washington Information Technology. In UW-IT Stories, Elizabeth describes how only three people keep the 650-acre campus—including athletic fields—properly irrigated without wasting...
Bacher: Kenyan Conservation
Elizabeth Bacher works at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, so impressing her with conservation work isn’t easy. In a post for the zoo’s blog, though, Elizabeth writes about seeing “amazing” community-based conservation firsthand in Kenya. The post also has...
Berkowitz: Saltwater to Fresh—With Graphene
Water crises in South Africa, India, and other regions are just the start. Two-thirds of us, writes Rachel Berkowitz in Physics Today, may live with water shortages in 2025. Desalination methods to convert seawater to freshwater use decades-old technology but new...