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Battling Algae Blooms

8:57 am

Thu April 25, 2013

Lake Managers Get New Tool To Combat Algae

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By Tom Banse

Originally published on Thu April 25, 2013 11:40 am

Nothing spoils a summer swim in your favorite lake like an algae bloom. These become more common as the weather warms up. A lake in Federal Way, Washington -- near Seattle -- is serving as a proving ground for a possible new tool to combat toxic blooms.

Almost every summer until last summer, Lake Lorene would turn pea soup green.

Donating Wildlife To Research

6:57 pm

Tue April 23, 2013

Found A Dead Bird? Science Could Use It

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Collections manager Rob Faucett displays a condor wing at the Burke Museum. The Burke has the largest spread-wing collection in the world.

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Study skin at the Burke Museum.

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Rob Faucett, collections manager at the Burke, searches for a bird.

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A drawer of toucans at the Burke Museum.

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Toucans

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Collections manager Rob Faucett holds up a kiwi specimen.

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Spread wings being prepared at the Burke Museum.

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The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.

By Sarah Waller

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THUD. It’s the sickening sound of a bird hitting your window. You hope it’s just stunned; that it will fly off. But there it is: A motionless lump of feathers on the ground. Before you bury it or toss it in the trash, consider an alternative. Some Seattle residents are donating these avian casualties to science.

Sediment Clogs Facility

7:32 am

Tue April 23, 2013

Sediment Woes For Port Angeles Water Treatment Facility Put Elwha Dam Removal On Hold

The $79 million facility was designed specifically to deal with the sediment released from above the dams during removal.

By Ashley Ahearn

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Removal of the two dams on the Elwha River has been temporarily halted because massive amounts of sediment released from above the dams have clogged a nearby city’s water treatment facilities.

Exploring The Ocean Depths

2:49 pm

Wed April 17, 2013

Getting Ready For World’s Largest Underwater Observatory

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Jeff Cram, a mechanical engineer at University of Washington's Applied Physics Laboratory, oversees the engineering of a set of 12 devices like this one, which will gather information from the bottom of the Pacific off the Northwest coast.

By Ashley Ahearn

Want to see a volcano explode hundreds of meters below the surface of the Pacific Ocean? How about in real-time streaming video, online, from the comfort of your own iPad? Well, there’s a massive scientific project underway that could help you with that and more.

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