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Outreach: Influencing STEM Knowledge

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Outreach on changes in the Columbia River Basin

A summit focusing on changes in the Columbia River Basin was organized and presented at the Columbia Gorge Community College for community college students and the public. The topics of natural processes and human influences on the Columbia river and its estuary, climate change, global warming and the Pacific Northwest and invasive species and native plant restoration are an outgrowth of the interdisciplinary IGERT's research on the Earth's subsurface biosphere and the links to Earth's physical and chemical environments and processes.