Robin A. Matthews

Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, Huxley College of the Environment

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    Robin Matthews is the Director of the Institute for Watershed Studies and a professor of Environmental Sciences at Western Washington University. Dr. Matthews received her graduate training in aquatic ecology at Indiana University (M.S.) and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Ph.D). Her undergraduate work was done at the University of California, Riverside. Prior to coming to Western Washington University, she worked as a full-time consultant in the areas of hazardous waste management and pollution control, and as an environmental scientist for DuPont at the Savannah River Laboratory studying the effects of heated effluents from nuclear production reactors on 150 miles of the Savannah River and adjacent swamps. Dr. Matthews has published and presented over 100 journal articles, reports, and conference papers.

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    Phone: (360) 650-3507
    Office: ES604A, MS9069

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    Research Interests

    • Aquatic ecology
    • Pattern analysis of large ecological data sets
    • Principle investigator on the Lake Whatcom monitoring program funded by the City of Bellingham

    Disciplines

    • Environmental Sciences