How do journalists decide the environmental stories they write? How do advocates walk the line between “truth” and propaganda?
Is a picture really worth a thousand words and can the right picture help produce positive environmental change? What’s Twitter all about and how can I use it professionally?
These questions will be addressed in ENVIR 495F: Environmental Communication, Messaging & Outreach with instructor P. 

New course for Winter 2016
Ocean 330 Marine Biogeochemical Cycles
The distribution of life and chemical elements in the ocean, the relationship between them and the physical processes affecting these patterns. Emphasis on how marine organisms and the structure of marine ecosystems influence the fate of carbon and other elements in the ocean.
Instructors- Gabrielle Rocap (rocap@uw.edu) and Alex Gagnon (gagnon@uw.edu)
Course Overview and Structure:
The oceans play a key role in the biogeochemical cycling of elements on our planet.