Aimee Van Tatenhove
Science News ReporterAimee Van Tatenhove is a science reporter at UPR. She spends most of her time interviewing people doing interesting research in Utah and writing stories about wildlife, new technologies and local happenings. She is also a PhD student at Utah State University, studying white pelicans in the Great Salt Lake, so she thinks about birds a lot! She also loves fishing, skiing, baking, and gardening when she has a little free time.
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An excerpt from the book, 'In the Temple of the Stars' by Margaret Pettis
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"You save what you love. We have to fight with our brains and our hearts and our science, and we'll sacrifice to save it."
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PhD student at Utah State University's Department of Watershed Sciences Molly Blakowski reflects on the Great Salt Lake's future.
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Poet and activist Nan Seymour tells the story of the vigil that was kept this past winter and the poem that resulted from a community who was willing to show up at the lake shore and bear witness to this essential heart of our ecosystem.
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Up to 50 procedures are expected to be postponed this week. That’s about 10% of all surgeries and procedures at the hospital.
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Cockett has served as president of Utah State University for the last six years. She will remain at USU as a tenured faculty member.
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November’s USU Ecology Center seminars cover the growing popularity of tree planting to offset carbon emissions and new methods to restore forest ecosystems.
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US Magnesium, a mineral extraction company on the shore of Great Salt Lake, has applied for a dredging permit to extend its water intake canals because lake levels have gotten so low.
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"When you get into the lake, it's like floating. There's so much salt in it, you float up. And it’s just really magical. It's like you’re in some sort of heaven. It's like that until after a while, it begins to dry, and you get salt all over you and you have to get out."
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New research from Utah State University says Pando, an aspen grove in Utah that’s been named the world’s largest organism, is at risk.