The world’s oceans provide an important source of nutrition for more than one billion people, and employment for hundreds of millions. But is this sustainable? And if so, where? And how?

You don’t need to be enrolled in the FISH 260/261: Recreational Fisheries course to attend one of the many guest lectures hosted this spring quarter. Please see the attached flyer for the schedule of guests representing perspectives on a range of topics impacting recreational fisheries in the Pacific NW.

Are you ready to show off your knowledge of fish??
Join us for a fun-filled evening of Fish Trivia on Thursday February 23rd. Pizza and Beer (21+) will be provided.

The event will be hosted in the lobby of FSH following the SAFS seminar (4:30-5:30). 

Reminder to attend the info session for Spring/Summer courses at Friday Harbor Labs next Tuesday, January 17 from 10:30-11:20 in MSB 123.
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Friday Harbor Labs Info Session: Spring/Summer Quarter 2017
Spend spring or summer quarter studying at the UW’s marine field station in the San Juan Islands. Get started by attending the following info session:
INFO SESSION: Spring and Summer Quarter at Friday Harbor
When: Tuesday 1/17, 10:30 – 11:30 AM
Where: Marine Sciences Building Room 123
RSVP: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/jkob/320432
Learn more about what spending a quarter studying full time in the San Juan Islands can mean for you. 

Eavesdropping on the ocean: using passive acoustic monitoring
technologies to estimate marine mammal population sizes
Please join us for a talk by Dr. Danielle Harris on Tuesday, December
6th at 11:30am in Ocean Teaching Building room 155. Dr. Harris is a
statistical ecologist and acoustician visiting from St. Andrews
University’s Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental
Modelling (CREEM). This lecture is open to the public. 

Wednesday, November 16
3:00 – 4:00 PM
Fishery Sciences Building, Room 203
Majors
Aquatic & Fishery Sciences     Oceanography
Minor
Marine Biology
Marine Field Station
Friday Harbor Labs

Over 70% of the Earth is covered by water. Explore majors, minors and opportunities related to the study of this part of the environment in a one-hour information session with academic advisers. Learn more about why the UW is a global leader in these fields, and find out more about:

Recommended courses for exploration
Program requirements
What senior projects/research looks like in these programs
Career paths

session is open to current and prospective UW students
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CALLING ALL HUMANS! LET’S CONVENE ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate change is the kind of problem that keeps us up at night. No matter where you live or what you do, you will be impacted by human-made changes to our atmosphere. It’s something that no single discipline can hope to solve—we know that we must collaborate to innovate on this complex issue. 

The School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences autumn quarter seminar is a chance for the public to learn about current issues and research through weekly lectures each Thursday. Subscribe to the SAFS events calendar for information about other lectures through the quarter.
More than just fillets on the grill: Salmon and trout as models of evolutionary ecology.
Abstract
Salmon, trout, and their relatives are important as objects of commercial, recreational, and subsistence fisheries and aquaculture, and they also play vital roles in the marine and freshwater ecosystems that they occupy during their lives. 

The guest speaker for this quarter’s ‘Wildlife Seminar’ Sharon Melin from the NOAA National Marine Mammal Laboratory will be giving a talk on Monday, 5/9 from 3:30 – 4:30 in Kane Hall 130 about Climate Change and California Sea Lions. This lecture is open to the public, so you can attend even if you haven’t registered for the course (ESRM 455).