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Bellingham, Washington
No full textGreat Excelsior Mine at Bellingham, Washington.https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/edward_nolan/1016/thumbnail.jp
Congressman Henry M. Jackson at ski resort, Bellingham, Washington, approximately 1940s
No full textHandwritten on verso: The Broadcast
Stamped on verso July 26, 1950. Bellingham Washington
Poster: HRSS - Judd, The Liberal Arts on Trial in Bellingham
No full textThis is a poster for a Heritage Resources speaker event.
Lecture title: The Liberal Arts on Trail in Bellingham
Author: Ron Juddhttps://cedar.wwu.edu/hrss_images/1002/thumbnail.jp
Late Pleistocene Littoral Deposits in the Deming Sand at Bellingham Bay, Washington, and Their Implications for Relative Sea Level Changes
No full textRecent mass wasting of sea cliffs along Bellingham Bay in Northwest Washington has exposed late Pleistocene littoral deposits in the Deming sand, which is underlain by Kulshan glaciomarine drift (gmd) and overlain by Bellingham glaciomarine drift (Easterbrook 1963). Marine shells in the Kulshan gmd were dated at 12,210 ± 80 14C-yrs B. P. and marine shells in the Deming sand were dated at 11,760 ± 85 and 11,685 ± 85 14C-yrs B. P. Marine shells in the Bellingham gmd were dated at 12,150 + 210 14C-yrs B. P.
Fossiliferous Kulshan glaciomarine drift is overlain by 11.5 m of well-sorted, medium-grained, horizontally bedded and cross-bedded sand and sandy gravel with two silt and clay interbeds 0.57 m and 0.88 m thick. Evidence for a littoral environment includes (1) many cross-bedded, pebbly-sand beds containing abundant, abraded shells, abraded worm tubes, and shell fragments, (2) armored mud balls, (3) thin layers of concentrated garnet/magnetite sand common to beaches and 4) thick, well-indurated silt and clay characteristic of tidal flat deposits. All of these features mirror those in a shallow marine environment undergoing tidal phases and shoreline processes. Fossiliferous Bellingham glaciomarine drift approximately 11 meters thick caps the section.
The exposure of Deming sand between the Kulshan and Bellingham gmds at Bellingham Bay mimics the stratigraphic order at the Everson type locality ca. 45 km to the east, which corroborates Easterbrook\u27s (1963) hypothesis that the Deming sand throughout Whatcom County is fluvial in origin. This relationship plays a central role in the complex history of relative sea level changes. The Deming sand fixes relative sea level at approximately 10-20 m above present sea level, and because the Bellingham and Kulshan gmds occur at present elevations of ~ 100 and 200 m, that means relative sea levels must have fluctuated by at least approximately 100 m from the Kulshan to the Deming, and at least 200 m from the Deming to the Bellingham. Thus, the inference that sedimentation at the Everson type section was solely glacial (Croll, 1980; Dragovitch et al., 1997) with no fluctuations of local relative sea level is challenged
Environmental Education at an Under-resourced and Multicultural Bellingham School: Reflections on AmeriCorps, Culturally Responsive Education and Abbott Elementary
No full textThis internship report details a year of an AmeriCorps service with Common Threads Farm, working at Cordata Elementary’s school garden and teaching cooking classes in Bellingham, WA. A comprehensive summary of the systemic segregation of the Bellingham School District elucidates how northern schools like Cordata are under-resourced and underserved compared to Bellingham’s more central, wealthier neighborhoods. The author compares her experiences to that of the characters on ABC’s Abbott Elementary, discussing the importance of culturally responsive teaching pedagogies when working with multicultural school communities and collective, grass-roots movement for education reform in under-resourced schools
Development of a Hydrodynamic and Transport model of Bellingham Bay in Support of Nearshore Habitat Restoration
No full textIn this study, a hydrodynamic model based on the unstructured-grid finite volume coastal ocean model (FVCOM) was developed for Bellingham Bay, Washington. The model simulates water surface elevation, velocity, temperature, and salinity in a three-dimensional domain that covers the entire Bellingham Bay and adjacent water bodies, including Lummi Bay, Samish Bay, Padilla Bay, and Rosario Strait. The model was developed using Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s high-resolution Puget Sound and Northwest Straits circulation and transport model. A sub-model grid for Bellingham Bay and adjacent coastal waters was extracted from the Puget Sound model and refined in Bellingham Bay using bathymetric light detection and ranging (LIDAR) and river channel cross-section data. The model uses tides, river inflows, and meteorological inputs to predict water surface elevations, currents, salinity, and temperature. A tidal open boundary condition was specified using standard National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predictions. Temperature and salinity open boundary conditions were specified based on observed data. Meteorological forcing (wind, solar radiation, and net surface heat flux) was obtained from NOAA real observations and National Center for Environmental Prediction North American Regional Analysis outputs. The model was run in parallel with 48 cores using a time step of 2.5 seconds. It took 18 hours of cpu time to complete 26 days of simulation. The model was calibrated with oceanographic field data for the period of 6/1/2009 to 6/26/2009. These data were collected specifically for the purpose of model development and calibration. They include time series of water-surface elevation, currents, temperature, and salinity as well as temperature and salinity profiles during instrument deployment and retrieval. Comparisons between model predictions and field observations show an overall reasonable agreement in both temporal and spatial scales. Comparisons of root mean square error values for surface elevation, velocity, temperature, and salinity time series are 0.11 m, 0.10 m/s, 1.28oC, and 1.91 ppt, respectively. The model was able to reproduce the salinity and temperature stratifications inside Bellingham Bay. Wetting and drying processes in tidal flats in Bellingham Bay, Samish Bay, and Padilla Bay were also successfully simulated. Both model results and observed data indicated that water surface elevations inside Bellingham Bay are highly correlated to tides. Circulation inside the bay is weak and complex and is affected by various forcing mechanisms, including tides, winds, freshwater inflows, and other local forcing factors. The Bellingham Bay model solution was successfully linked to the NOAA oil spill trajectory simulation model “General NOAA Operational Modeling Environment (GNOME).” Overall, the Bellingham Bay model has been calibrated reasonably well and can be used to provide detailed hydrodynamic information in the bay and adjacent water bodies. While there is room for further improvement with more available data, the calibrated hydrodynamic model provides useful hydrodynamic information in Bellingham Bay and can be used to support sediment transport and water quality modeling as well as assist in the design of nearshore restoration scenarios
April 1, 1906 Page four His action may cause trouble Alberta Gallatin next Thursday evening Golf Club holds annual meeting and election Brought down the Bellingham Water pipe arrives Printing shop moves Peoples Market changes hands
No full textCarter, Captain; Thornton, William; Bishop, William Jr.; Terry, Fred M.; Jackman, Thomas;bark Samantha; steamer Bellingham; steamer Indianapolis
Canadian / U.S. Exchange Rates and Nonresident Investors: Their Influence on Residential Property Values
No full textFactors external to a home’s characteristics may influence the sales price. This analysis focuses on Bellingham, Washington, because of several influences including the Canadian economy and nonresidents. First estimated is a constant-quality Bellingham housing price index, which is used as the dependent variable in a reduced-form model of market price to estimate the impact of the exchange rate. The analysis (1984-94) suggests that a 10% rise in the exchange rate leads to a 7.7% rise in Bellingham home prices. Additionally, in 1990, non-county buyers paid 4% to 6% more than county residents and non-county sellers received 6% to 8% less.
The Use of Aluminum Process Reject Heat as the Source of Energy for a District Heating System
No full textRocket Research Company (RRC) is investigating the use of industrial process reject heat as a source of energy for large scale district heating. The District heating System is a network of closed-loop hot water pipes that recover energy from the fume hood ducts at the Intalco aluminum reduction plant and transmits the energy to commercial, residential, and institutional users in Bellingham, Washington for space and hot water heating
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