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Bringing Earthquake Early Warning to Washington: Background, Challenges, and Were we Successful?

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Kelp in Washington: Why You Must Care!

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Scientific Serendipity and the Songs of Bowhead Whales

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Scientific discoveries are often the result of serendipity- including the discovery of something completely unexpected which leads to more questions than answers. A chance recording of bowhead whales in Disko Bay, Greenland, and piggy-backing a hydrophone on an oceanographic mooring in Fram Strait revealed unexpected information about bowhead whale singing behavior. Many tens of distinct songs are sung by a population in a single season.

Geomagnetic Orientation Behavior in the PNW Sea Slug Tritonia: Research on a Not Yet Understood Sensory Mode with Implications for Survival in a Changing Climate

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Tritonia orienting to bite polyps from a sea pen

Western Washington University has shifted to entirely online classes for Spring, 2020. As such, the Huxley Speaker Series is revisiting some of our favorite presentations from the Archives.

This talk was originally presented as part of the Huxley Speaker Series in Spring 2018.

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