EarthLab News

Media Coverage, Oceans

VIDEO: WOAC and partners profiled in AGU Thought Leadership Series

This year, the Washington Ocean Acidification Center was selected to be included in the AGU Thought Leadership Series, which profiles the work and research of urgent environmental issues. WOAC was selected due to the desire to spotlight centers that are “working against the clock” to alleviate ocean acidification.

Announcements

Second edition released: Adapting research methodologies in the COVID-19 pandemic

This second edition of "Adapting research methodologies in the COVID-19 pandemic" includes new insights from interviews with researchers who have had to change their methods - includes discussion of ethics implications when using enumerators, and the potential for decolonizing research.

Announcements, Innovation Grants

Apply Now: UW Population Health + EarthLab Team Up for Next Round of Pilot Research Grants

For the third year in a row, EarthLab has partnered with the UW Population Health Initiative to offer a pilot research grant of up to $50,000.

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.