April 17, 2018
WSU scientists discover coho salmon die, chum salmon survive in polluted stormwater.
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February 26, 2018
By Hope Belli Tinney, Washington SBDC
SEATTLE, Wash. – Whooshh Innovations, creator of the so-called Salmon Cannon, was highlighted at the America’s Small Business Development Center’s Client Showcase on Capitol Hill last week.
January 10, 2018
By Eric Sorensen, WSU News
PULLMAN, Wash. – Columbia River Chinook salmon have lost as much as two-thirds of their genetic diversity, Washington State University researchers have found.
October 19, 2017
By Eric Sorensen, WSU News
PULLMAN, Wash. – It turns out that sex can move mountains.
April 13, 2016
By Tim Marsh, WSU News retiree
NEWPORT, Ore. – Tropical yellow tang, among the most popular aquarium fish, on display in the visitor center of the Hatfield Marine Science Center are part of a research project about aquarium fish survival conducted in part by researchers at Washington State University Vancouver.
April 4, 2016
By Sylvia Kantor, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences
SEATTLE – Washington State University aquatic ecotoxicologist Jenifer McIntyre will share her research on the lethal impacts of stormwater for fish as well as solutions that are within reach.
February 9, 2016
By Eric Sorensen, WSU science writer
PULLMAN, Wash. – A Washington State University biologist has found the genetic mechanism that lets a fish live in toxic, acidic water. The discovery opens new insights into the functioning of other “extremophiles” and how they adapt to their challenging environments.
June 29, 2015
By Will Ferguson, College of Arts & Sciences
PULLMAN, Wash. – Jesse Brunner did a double take as he surveyed a pond in southern Arizona’s San Rafael Valley. It was home to endangered tiger salamanders and, over the course of one week, every salamander Brunner could find was sick or dying.
April 22, 2014
By Eric Sorensen, WSU science writer
PULLMAN, Wash. – Using fish bred at Washington State University, an international team of researchers has mapped the genetic profile of the rainbow trout, a versatile salmonid whose relatively recent genetic history opens a window into how vertebrates evolve.
April 16, 2014
NEW YORK – The skull of a newly discovered 325-million-year-old shark-like species suggests that early cartilaginous and bony fishes have more to tell us about the early evolution of jawed vertebrates – including humans – than do modern sharks, as was previously thought.