PSU Magazine Winter 1992

Is an.___ t the far western end of Micrones ia, in the midd le of an immense Pacific triangle formed by places named Yap, Mindanao, and Halmahera, lies the Republic of Palau. O n a map, the 350 6 PSU island of Palau show as only a few dot , a remote place with an obscure history. But Dick Dewey find s it fascinating. Dewey i ummer e · ion program director for PSU' chool of Extended Studies. He will be sharing his interest A little-known cluster of islands in the Pacific provides a tropical laboratory for Portland State's Dick Dewey. By Brian White of thi trop ical community by leading three 10-day field trips there later thi · year. Dewey, who is also an instruc tor in PSU's Geography Department , bring 20 years of environmental experience to the University. He was with the Palau, a huge archipelago, has people inhabiting only 10 of its 350 islands·.