- Larrabee State Park (Whatcom County) (historylink.org)
Larrabee State Park was established in 1915, and bears the distinction of being Washington’s first state park. Located along and near Chuckanut Drive in Whatcom County south of Bellingham, the 2,683-acre park is known for its hikes and scenic views from its higher elevations, and for fishing, clamming, and swimming along its beaches.
- Aqua Earth-Observing Satellite Mission (aqua.nasa.gov)
Aqua, Latin for water, is a NASA Earth Science satellite mission named for the large amount of information that the mission is collecting about the Earth’s water cycle, including evaporation from the oceans, water vapor in the atmosphere, clouds,precipitation, soil moisture, sea ice, land ice, and snow cover on the land and ice. Additional variables also being measured by Aqua include radiative energy fluxes, aerosols, vegetation cover on the land, phytoplankton and dissolved organic matter in the oceans, and air, land, and water temperatures.