Aquatic Organic Geochemistry

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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AOG is proud to have recruited three new undergraduates to work on SoundCitizen research.  Welcome to Amanda Hacking and Chloe Anderson, both in their second year as Oceanography majors.  Welcome back to Kelsey Powers, who was our summer intern in 2008.  Thanks for (re) joining the team!

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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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images from leg 1:  Rick, Cheryl, Kelsey P, Christine, Julie, Mitch, Miles, Shayma and Ray Sixteen days at sea aboard the RV Barnes.  Maybe that is a little too long.  Thanks from Rick to Miles, Cheryl, Kelsey, Kelsey, Julie, Mitch, Christine, Brandon, Esther, Shayma and Ray for making the cruise a success.  All our samples [...]

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So, we are giving talks about spices pretty regularly now.  Usually it is Rick or Kimberly.  On Wednesday May 28th Jaqui, Brittany and Rick visited a local elementary school and gave three simultaneous spices talks to three 5th grade classes.  Despite the intimidation factor of 11-year olds, we survived and perhaps even thrived.  The student clapped [...]

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