EarthLab News

Announcements

Introducing the new WOAC website!

We’re proud to unveil a new website for the Washington Ocean Acidification Center. Thank you to the College of the Environment web team!

Where Are You?

“When we talk about land, land is part of who we are. It’s a mixture of our blood, our past, our current, and our future. We carry our ancestors in us, and they’re around us. As you all do.” -- Mary Lyons, Leech Lake Bank of Ojibwe

Media Coverage

UW ranked No. 7 nationally for graduate entrepreneurship in 2021 Princeton Review rankings

EarthLab was mentioned alongside other UW institutes and centers as an example of university innovation.

Media Coverage

Congratulations to the UW Highly Cited Researchers

Researchers Eddie Allison (Ocean Nexus), Julian Olden (Future Rivers) and Spencer Wood (Nature and Health) are affiliated with EarthLab

Media Coverage

How social science is continuing to change and improve marine ecosystem conservation and management: Part I

Sarah Carr, editor at The Skimmer, interviewed Ocean Nexus Director Yoshi Ota and Ocean Nexus Deputy Director Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor to learn about how social science is continuing to change and improve marine ecosystem conservation and management. This is the first excerpt.

Announcements

Meet the Ocean Nexus Indigenous Ocean Ecologies Fellows

Ocean Nexus is proud to welcome five undergraduate student fellows and one graduate student fellow in Indigenous Ocean Ecologies, a new program created in partnership with the UW Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies (CAIIS) and Department of American Indian Studies. This year-long research fellowship is focused on the intersections of sovereignty, wellbeing, and environmental justice among Indigenous coastal communities, especially in the Pacific Northwest.

Oceans

TIDE BITES: Enhancing Resilience: a Constant Challenge in a Changing Climate

Ocean Nexus Center Postdoctoral Fellow Kirk Sato wrote this opinion piece for Tide Bites at the Friday Harbor Labs. It was reprinted in the San Juan Islander.

Announcements

Application Now Open for Future Rivers 2021/22

The Future Rivers Initiative, an organization in EarthLab, aims to build a culturally-aware STEM workforce fluent in state-of-the-art quantitative approaches that will be necessary for sustaining food, water, and energy sectors. Applications are now being accepted for the next cohort year beginning Autumn quarter 2021!

Announcements, Careers, Climate

Pending Job Openings in Climate Variability, Change, Impacts, and Adaptation

The Climate Adaptation Science Center network is preparing for several positions to come available in the next year, focused on the impacts of climate variability and change on ecosystems, natural resources, cultural resources, infrastructure, tribal lands and waters, urban and rural settlements and economic development. The network is seeking contact information for scholars with experience and interest in these subjects, as well as in developing actionable science with stakeholders with demonstrated commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Ecosystems, Oceans

The Olympic Coast as a Sentinel – Tribal Communities at the Forefront of Ocean Change

This beautiful 18-minute film about the Olympic Coast research partnership uses collaborators’ own voices and perspectives on ocean change and tribal resilience to bring the story to life.