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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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