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EARTHLAB NEWSLETTER — APRIL 2022

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Announcing the 2022 Innovation Grant Teams!

2022 Innovation Grants teams announced

EarthLab funds six community-led research teams to solve complex challenges at the intersection of climate change & social justice. Meet the teams

Student Internship Programs launched

This summer, we'll host university-level students passionate about the intersection of climate and social justice to participate in 10-week paid internships. more on the PROGRAM
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EarthLab is hiring a part time Communications & Engagement Specialist

Now hiring: Communications & Engagement Specialist (.8 FTE)

This position is instrumental in sharing stories about EarthLab and amplifying voices of our eight member organizations and community within and outside of the UW. LEARN MORE AND APPLY

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Changemakers and Collaborators

A reading roundup from EarthLab as we explore environmental justice and its connections with scholarship and decision-makers.
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Nature and Health 2022 Conference Call for Abstracts

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he $5,000 UW EarthLab Community Impact Prize went to team GardenPro from UW.

Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge

Foster School of Business
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Transforming constraints into opportunities

Aspen Institute
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New chapter for Climate Impacts Group Director Amy Snover

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Benjamin Lopez steps from floodwater surrounding his parents’ home in Sedro-Woolley on Nov. 15, 2021. The heavy rainfall brought major flooding of the Skagit River. (AP Photo / Elaine Thompson, File)

Weather disasters can teach us how to prepare for the future

The Seattle Times
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Swinomish Tribe wants to resurrect U.S. clam gardening

CROSSCUT
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Energy Scholars Mentorship Program for summer 2022

LEVELTEN ENERGY
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Boeing funds stormwater mitigation project led by UW researchers and The Nature Conservancy to address health inequities in the Seattle area

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Spark Northwest, a Seattle equity-based clean energy non-profit, seeks additional members for their board of directors

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Save the Date

TRIBAL CLIMATE RESILIENCE PROGRAM FUNDING OPPORTUNITY WEBINAR The Bureau of Indian Affairs Branch of Tribal Climate Resilience is excited to announce the Fiscal Year 2022 Annual Awards Program Request for Proposals. The Branch will release approximately $46 million in funding through President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and FY 2022 annual appropriations. An informational webinar on the funding opportunity will be hosted by the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals Tribes and Climate Change Program. APRIL 25
NATURE AND HEALTH WALKS "NEARBY NATURE SELF-CARE, EVIDENCE AND ACTION" Nature and Health is hosting a UW Seattle Campus nature walk, which will be moderated by research social scientist Kathy Wolf from the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences. The walk starts at Drumheller Fountain and will last about an hour. MAY 3
MOMENTUM 2022: EMBARKING ON A NEW ERA OF CLIMATE LEADERSHIP EarthLab is proud to co-sponsor this annual Climate Solutions conference, this year featuring Representative Pramila Jayapal and a panel of clean energy and equitable housing leaders. Register for free. MAY 4
INTERSECTIONAL ENVIRONMENTALIST BOOK TOUR Join EarthLab for a virtual book tour event with intersectional environmentalist and eco-communicator Leah Thomas as she reads from and discusses her new book, "The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet." MAY 5
[PCC SPRING SEMINAR SERIES] CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS AND ADAPTATION This series features many speakers who are connected to EarthLab. On May 10, Meade Krosby from the Climate Impacts Group will present on "Climate impacts and adaptation in the PNW" and on May 24, Josh Lawler from Nature & Health will present on "Species movement in a changing climate." The presentations will be held every Tuesday during the spring quarter, from 3:30-4:30 p.m. in the Ocean Sciences Building Room 425 and over Zoom. MAY 10 & 24
2022 INNOVATION EXCHANGE FROM THE MUSEUM OF HISTORY & INDUSTRY MOHAI’s 13th Annual Innovation Exchange will explore the pressing topics of environmental sustainability and the global climate crisis, and how these issues can be addressed. The 2022 Featured Innovator will be EarthLab Advisory Council Member Sally Jewell, former US Secretary of the Interior and CEO of REI. MAY 19
QUEER TRANS ECOLOGIES AND RIVER JUSTICE Cleo Wölfle Hazard (past EarthLab Innovation Grantee) will be speaking with Stephanie Clure at Town Hall Seattle ($5 tickets). Wölfle Hazard’s new book, "Underflow: Queer Trans Ecologies and River Justice," meets at the intersection of river sciences, queer and trans theory, and environmental justice, and explores river cultures and politics at five sites of water conflict and restoration in California, Oregon and Washington. MAY 27
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