EarthLab News
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!
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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
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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.
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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
Read moreHow 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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
Read moreMeet NW CASC’s 2020-21 Research Fellows!
The NW CASC is excited to welcome our 2020-2021 Research Fellows as they kick off their Fellowship activities this fall. These 13 Fellows represent each of our consortium universities across Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana. Throughout the Fellowship year, each Fellow will conduct research in close collaboration with regional natural resource managers and decision-makers to produce relevant science on climate change impacts and adaptation actions, while receiving training in the principles of actionable science.
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Phil Rigdon Joins EarthLab Advisory Council
Phil Rigdon is the superintendent of the Yakama Nation's Department of Natural Resources
Phil Rigdon, superintendent of Yakama Nation's Natural Resources Department, has joined the EarthLab Advisory Council. Chaired by former Interior Secretary and REI CEO Sally Jewell, the council guides and advises the EarthLab executive director on strategic objectives and connects EarthLab with organizations, people, resources and ideas outside of the university.
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