WWU teacher gets NASA grant to study climate change

ZOE FRALEY - THE BELLINGHAM HERALD

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BELLINGHAM - A Western Washington University teacher has received a grant to work with NASA to study global climate change, according to a university release.

Andy Bunn, an assistant professor of environmental science at Western's Huxley College of the Environment, is part of the $289,000 grant to study how the planet's cold-weather forests are responding to climate change. The grant includes Bunn and his students as well as collaborators at the University of Arizona.

The study will focus on the forests of Siberia, where Bunn spent the past two summers and where a former Western student is collecting the project's first data.

Researchers will study how much carbon is stored in the forests and could be released as carbon dioxide as the planet warms, as well as what impact this could have on global climate change.