#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.
Yan: Goats In Flight
Hikers love mountain goats because of their wildness, Wudan Yan writes for High Country News. Goats love hikers for the salt in their pee. Mountain goats are not native to the Olympic National Park, though, so wildlife managers are helicoptering them away from people....
Ostrander: Glacier Squad
For Hakai magazine, Madeline Ostrander goes on quite the hike. She travels with a team that has collected data on northwest glaciers for more than 35 years. Madeline (@madelinevo) gives us the history of the project, the glaciers, and the people who study them. She...
Schnaiberg: Airport Air Pollution
Airports are known for noise pollution, but Lynn Schnaiberg writes about air pollution affecting communities around Sea-Tac International. For the University of Washington Department of Environmental & Occupational Health, Lynn describes new research using methods...
Yan: A Purr-fectly Fun Story
Can you take a cat kayaking? Read Wudan Yan’s New York Times story, “Does Fluffy Really Want to Be an Adventure Cat?” and you might learn enough to harness-train your favorite feline, if not teach it to Eskimo roll. Eventually, like people interviewed and photographed...
Gibbs: Eyes In The Sky
Our planet is blanketed, Wayt Gibbs writes, with thousands of satellites. Some “cubesats” are the size of a loaf of bread. Wayt (@WaytGibbs) goes beyond just reporting the number, size, and function of all this space hardware. In his feature for Anthropocene, Wayt...