Aquatic Organic Geochemistry

Have you ever wondered what is it like to be Rick?  Aaaaargh!  Pity on you!  Well, some time it is awesome to be a professor of oceanography, and some time it isn’t.  To celebrate all things related to Rick’s life as an oceanographer,  COSEE has just launched a web site.  The site is dedicated to [...]

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Congratulations Anna!  Miss Anna Belcher, who came to UW in 2008-2009 as an exchange student from the UK’s University of Southampton School of Ocean and Earth Science, and who returned in summer 2010 for three research cruises (Hawaii, Clayoquot and Washington Margin), has won two major awards. In addition to receiving her MSci Oceanography degree [...]

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Our AOG lab is the happy recipients of a substantial donation by UW’s undergraduate club S.U.R.F. This group of amazing undergraduates and alumni from the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences put on a benefit rock concert last fall, and donated all the profits to our citizen science group SoundCitizen. In a private interview, Rick [...]

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Rick was the speaker at the June “Science on Tap” at TS McHugh’s in Seattle’s Queen Anne neighborhood.  Many new friends turned out to hear about SoundCitizen and our research in Puget Sound.   Missed it?  You can view the video on Seattle’s KCTS Public TV.  Sponsored, in part, by the Seattle Science Center.

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Our citizen-action program SoundCitizen was officially launched on Saturday November 22nd.  In cooperation with COSEE-OLC, Sea Grant, and the Seattle Aquarium, we now have more than 200 chemical sampling kits in the hands of everyday citizens.  Check out the program – Soundcitizen.org

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Rick has been named the first Richard H. Fleming Fellow in the School of Oceanography.    Richard Fleming was the director of the School when it established the world’s first undergraduate degree in Oceanography in 1951, and he valued strongly the importance of our undergraduate program. The Fleming Endowment honors Richard Fleming’s vision for quality undergraduate [...]

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Rick has been using the awesome Shifting Baselines media in his teaching for years (I especially like their earlier work featuring Jack Black, such as the Ocean Symphony).  Now, in collaboration with the Puget Sound Partnership, Shifting Baselines has produced a new 5-minute flash video about Puget Sound.   

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