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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, Climate, Jobs

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.

Equity and Justice, 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.

Announcements

Meet 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.

Announcements

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.

Climate

Martinique’s Pink Mangroves Signal an Ecosystem Under Stress from Climate Change

Frederique is an associate Ph.D. student with the University of Cambridge and a fellow for The Nippon Foundation: Nereus Program. She and her colleagues were able to confirm the cause of the pink water that appeared in Martinique's mangrove forests over the summer.