Science, Management, and Outreach of Contaminates sites is a project-based class at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. The Department of Ecology helped fund the course though resources dedicated to public education and outreach. These funds made it possible for students to delve into lab research, travel to cleanup sites across the state and talk with the communities, regulators and scientists involved. The class remains free to choose what and how to study the cleanup process. Zander Albertson and Ruth Sofield have been teaching the course together since 2019. 

We developed our project on contaminated sites in Longview and Commencement Bay, WA over the course of two months. We strove to combine empirical data with information gathered from interviews to create a product encompassing the technical and social aspects of contaminated site cleanup. As a group, we are four students of different backgrounds, fields of study, and academic skillsets that worked together to make this website.