News and Events

Announcements, Innovation Grants

Project to Create Anti-Racism Education Wins Mellon Grant

Cleo Woelfle-Erskine, faculty advisor for EarthLab member organization Future Rivers and assistant professor in the School of Marine & Environmental Affairs, is part of a team of academics that was recently awarded $5 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund an interdisciplinary, multi-year project to advance anti-racist practices and pedagogy in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM).

Equity and Justice

EARTHLAB EQUITY & JUSTICE READS: AS LONG AS GRASS GROWS

EarthLab has selected As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker for our equity and justice book club this quarter.

Announcements

Innovative New Prizes Add to Competition Experience

EarthLab is proud to sponsor a prize at the Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge, presented by Foster School’s Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship. The Community Impact Prize recognizes innovation in developing a product, solution, or demonstrated business model that mitigates or makes communities more resilient in the face of climate change while prioritizing equity and justice.

Climate, Media Coverage

For tribes, climate change fight is about saving culture

Climate Impacts Group Meade Crosby was quoted in this article.

Media Coverage, Nature

How to avoid cabin fever in WA’s pandemic winter

With mental health on the line, Washingtonians are finding creative, safe ways to get outside. Nature and Health's director Josh Lawler is quoted in this Crosscut article.

Nature: River conservation by an Indigenous community

Populations of river fish are threatened by pressures on land and water resources. Networks of reserves managed by Indigenous people at community level offer a way to conserve fish diversity and enhance yields of nearby fisheries.

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.

EarthLab awarded Boeing 2020 grant

EarthLab is proud to be a 2020 Boeing Global Engagement Grantee and a continued Boeing partner.

Events

Missed an EarthLab event? There's a video for that

If you weren't able to attend one of our events this quarter, you still have an opportunity to "attend" by watching one of our recordings. We've also included a few must-see events from our member organizations.

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.