Release_1972-1973_1973-253.pdf

extracted text: The Evergreen State College

NEWS
FOR IMMEDIATE
December

Olympia, Washington

1, 1973

and Chemistry

Defense

of Pollution

Fund has awarded

Coordinated

the biology

of the Douglas

Taught by Faculty Members
the program

and biochemistry,

involves

a $750 research

Studies program

The grant will enable 38 students

chemist,

tion area near LaGrande,

program

State College.
to further

Fir Tussock Moth.

Steve Herman,
intensive

as well as electronics

this year students

grant to the Ecology

at The Evergreen

in the two-year academic

an ecologist,

laboratory

and Michael

Beug, a

and field work in general,

organic

and ecology.

Study of the tussock moth has been one emphasis
Earlier

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The Environmental

research

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of the program,

Herman

said.

spent more than a week stuying the Tussock moth infesta-

Oregon.

the pest and on its natural

They collected

enemias.

data on the population

status of

The data they gathered has since been analyzed

and will shortly be ready for distribution.
In the future, students will study Puget Sound marine life and examine
of petrohydrocarbons,

pesticides

Herman said the students,
the "sophisticated

and heavy metal pollutants

all upperclassmen,

analytical

work"

are currently

preparing

such studies will require.

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Dick

on that marine

Nichols,

Infor mation

Director
Services

the effects
life.

themselves

for