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Trust in leaders, sense of belonging stir people to safeguard common goods, analysis shows

July 25, 2013

Psychological researcher Craig Parks and his co-authors emphasize the urgent need to broaden thoughtful use of public goods, noting that charitable contributions are at historic lows, fossil fuel reserves are shrinking, and climate change threatens the planet’s future.

On Gaiser Pond: Middle-schoolers have been doing real science

July 23, 2013

Now dubbed “Gaiser Pond” by the school community, wetlands below the school are being studied and cleaned up thanks to two dedicated Gaiser Middle School science teachers and their students and environmental science graduate students from Washington State University Vancouver.

The Partners in Discovery GK-12 Project brought together environmental science graduate students from WSUV with middle school science teachers in several Clark County districts for real-world science projects using funds from an NSF grant.

Archaeology students dig Fort Vancouver

July 18, 2013

“Think of pipe stems as the cigarette butts of the past,” said Katie Wynia, a Washington State University Vancouver instructor at the field school at Fort Vancouver. In earlier times, “Everybody smoked tobacco.”

Wynia came across some Hudson’s Bay Company records… read more here.

Cleaning up the global aquarium trade

July 12, 2013

Marine ecologist Brian Tissot raises serious concerns about reef and ecosystem damage related to collecting and selling tropical fish and other sea creatures. Some public aquariums, retailers, and wholesalers are taking measures to improve their practices.

Could new insights from the aquarium hobby actually help reef-dependent humans and animals alike?

See the clownfish and read more about ending destructive practices and encouraging aquaculture

WSU Professor Becomes Ambassador for Oboes

July 10, 2013

Thanks to a WSU grant, music professor and renowned oboist Keri McCarthy will travel to Burma later in July to deliver oboes to music students in Yangon, as part of a grassroots effort to build connections between the US and Burma. Oboes are virtually nonexistent in isolated Burma.

McCarthy plans to return to Burma in the spring to see how the oboes are being received, and will publish an article in a professional journal to encourage donations of oboes.