Natural Resources

In the next several decades, the human story is going to be a water story, Sandra Postel told a packed house at the WSU Compton Union Building auditorium during the 2013 Lane Family Lecture.

Ellen Preece wants to know if microcystins, liver-damaging toxins produced by algal blooms in freshwater lakes, accumulate in Puget Sound seafood. Thanks in part to a grant from the Natural Resource Conservation Endowment Fund and a number of other like-minded sources, she’s not the only one who will soon find out.