Outside Magazine, a scorer of all things outdoors, has scored the top 10 environment blogs for 2011. The top two include New York Times Green, and Yale e360. Explore the full list here.
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WHALE.fm is a new crowd-sourcing project that allows anyone to help marine researchers figure out what whales are saying, by listening and matching whale sounds. Try it out here! The Combined Fund Drive (CFD) is the state’s workplace giving campaign which provides faculty and staff the opportunity to give to their favorite charities through payroll deduction or a one-time gift. Established in 1984, the CFD offers convenience, choice, and confidentiality. This year the CFD hopes to meet or exceed last year’s goal of $2 million, and they’re only ~$175,000 away. Check it out! The Life Sciences Discovery Fund, which was created from the state’s tobacco settlement, was created to provide $35 million per year to bolster life sciences research and turn that research into jobs. Currently the program is being funded at only 15% of that level, as the state continues to siphon off the funds to cover budget shortfalls. Read more here. Check out the following announcement, and join the SAFS Alaska Salmon Program next Wednesday! Please join the Alaska Salmon Program for our 2011 Science Symposium This annual symposium showcases the research of the UW School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences’ Alaska Salmon Program undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff and visiting scientists. Our program focuses on all aspects of the ecology of Pacific salmon in the North Pacific, Bering Sea, and watersheds of Southwest Alaska. Participants will give brief talks sharing their research in both basic and applied ecology, as well as the biological and socioeconomic management of Alaskan fisheries. For a symposium schedule, which should be posted by Dec 1, and general program information please go to: http://fish.washington.edu/research/alaska/. We also teach a 6 week summer undergraduate field course, Aquatic Ecological Research in Alaska (FSH 491 – taught by Tom Quinn, Daniel Schindler, and Ray Hilborn). If you are interested in spending 6 weeks studying pristine and remote Alaska sockeye salmon ecosystems, please consider attending this symposium to learn more about our research program. Please feel free to come for whatever part of the afternoon you are available. We hope to see you there! Jackie Carter SAFS professor and Associate Dean Julia Parrish is interviewed for KPLU’s BirdNote, a radio series exploring the intriguing ways of birds. In this excerpt, she shares two lessons she has gotten from her work as a seabird scientist. Listen or read the transcript here! Thousands of planets will likely be discovered in the next few years, and a new system is needed to classify the ability of those worlds to support life. David Catling, associate professor of Earth and space sciences, was co-author on the paper. Read more here. |
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