EarthLab News
EarthLab Innovation Grant project selected as a finalist for a “Science Breakthrough of the Year” award at Falling Walls 2020
We are pleased to share that one of our inaugural Innovation Grant projects was selected as a finalist for a “Science Breakthrough of the Year” award by the Falling Walls Conference, an annual world forum for leaders across sectors and disciplines to come together to discuss pressing global challenges and answer the question, “Which are the next walls to fall in science and society?”
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Slipping Through the Cracks: Racism and the struggle for equity in the field of conservation
Thank you for joining us and listening to our panelists discuss their experiences as members of the BIPOC community and co-conspirators working in and around the field of conservation.
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Memorial University professor part of global effort to better understand our relationship with the oceans
Gerald Singh and others from MUN contributing to international project involving researchers from 21 countries
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Salish Sea Equity & Justice Symposium Final Report Available
The 2019 Salish Sea Equity and Justice Symposium was created to amplify voices of historically underrepresented and marginalized groups within the environmental field in the Salish Sea and Pacific Northwest Coast region. During this two-day event, leaders from all types of environmental professional backgrounds convened to discuss how to integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout their operations and environmental work.
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Inaugural Future Rivers Cohort Announced
Future Rivers is proud to announce and welcome their first cohort of students for the 2020-2021 academic year. Six master's and six doctoral students from fisheries, forestry, landscape architecture, public health, and civil & environmental engineering will join the program this fall. From Massachusetts to Bangladesh, these students bring with them a wide-range of multi-disciplinary experience and a passion for transforming freshwater science.
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Ocean Nexus Releases Report: Adapting Research Methodologies in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Ocean Nexus Center investigators have collaborated in the creation of a new resource for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers whose work is being affected by the COVID-19 virus. Researchers that typically rely on face-to-face forms of human interaction to collect their data can no longer do so due to the mobility restrictions in place worldwide. This document offers guidance on potentially useful methods to help redesign their projects.
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EarthLab Equity & Justice Reads: Braiding Sweetgrass
One of EarthLab’s stated priorities is to put equity and justice at the core of our work. What does it mean, specifically, to center equity and justice at EarthLab? One key aspect is staff learning, and specifically our Equity & Justice book club, in order to develop shared values and language through discussions and shared readings and experiences.
This quarter, we have selected to read Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
D4D Project Launch Under New Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center at UW
The outputs of these decision-making processes significantly impact the lives of coastal communities, whose populations are most directly affected by changes to the marine environment. However, despite the ongoing data revolution, many groups (e.g. those with lower incomes, indigenous communities) remain pervasively underrepresented in the data-driven strategic planning addressing environmental change within their communities.
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UW EarthLab and The Nippon Foundation launch Ocean Nexus Research Center
The University of Washington and The Nippon Foundation today announced the Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center, an interdisciplinary research group that studies changes, responses and solutions to societal issues that emerge in relationship with the oceans. The Center will bring uncompromised critical voices to policy and public conversations to enable research and studies equating to $32.5 million spread across 10 years.
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