The Clean Water program at RE Sources for Sustainable Communities recently launched the Squalicum Clean Water Project, a campaign that monitors water quality and educates citizens about how they can help prevent fecal coliform pollution in the Squalicum Watershed by picking up and properly disposing of dog poop.
Read More“What’s the Point?” low-tide walk at Point Whitehorn Marine Reserve
Join Whatcom Land Trust and the Cherry Point Aquatic Reserve Citizen Stewardship Committee for an event titled “What’s the Point?” from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday, June 6, at Point Whitehorn Marine Reserve. A negative tide will allow for intertidal zone exploration in an extraordinary stretch of shoreline teeming with wildlife.
Read MoreSPIE: Laser device can detect alcohol in cars, report authors in 'Journal of Applied Remote Sensing' →
Read the full press release at https://spie.org/about-spie/press-room/press-release-archive/jars-alcohol-laser-6-1-2014.
IceCube particle detector in Antarctica records high-energy neutrinos
Scientists at a massive underground particle detector in Antarctica called the IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory have detected high-energy neutrinos, ideal for the future of "extreme astronomy" because they can be used to detect the sources of cosmic rays and provide information about our universe's most violent and least-understood phenomena.
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