FHL 492 has now been approved for the ‘Integrative Field Experience’ requirement of the Marine Biology major, and spaces are still available in the summer 2019 offering. Visit https://fhl.uw.edu/courses/course-descriptions/course/ecology-and-conservation-of-marine-birds-and-mammals-2019/ for more information. 

The Seattle Aquarium has a few job openings which may be of interest to youth-serving environmental educators: Empathy Fellowship Coordinator, Grants and Administrative Coordinator (part-time), Youth Engagement Coordinator, and Season Summer Camp and Marine Science Interpreter.

Join us for this year’s Living Breath Indigenous Foods and Ecological Knowledge Symposium. This year we have opened our doors to invite you to two days of amazing panels and break-out sessions in honor of Native family food traditions.

Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, a regional environmental nonprofit organization based in Wilmington, Delaware, seeks a Shellfish Specialist to assist in a diverse array of ongoing research projects including surveys, assessments, and propagation of freshwater and marine bivalves.

The goals for this field team are to design and implement field-based fishery-independent surveys and research projects of marine fish species and invertebrates for the primary purpose of providing information for federal and state stock assessment processes. The person in this position functions as a researcher and field crew leader providing research, analytical, and field support to the research project leader.

The Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS) offers a suite of university-level summer courses, designed to immerse students in the study of marine science, with a program of coursework and research that is unique in marine science education. Founded in 1903, BIOS is a world-class ocean science research and education facility.

In 1906 while attending a livestock fair in Plymouth England, Sir Francis Galton witnessed an interesting contest where locals were trying to guess the correct weight of a slaughtered and dressed ox (think jellybeans in a jar, but for butchers). He examined all 800 guesses and calculated the median calling it the vox populi, or “voice of the people,” reasoning that this would cancel out outliers on either side of the true answer. Astonishingly, the median guess was extremely close–within .8%–of the weight measured by the judges and closer than any individual guess. “This started the idea of the wisdom of crowds, where if you have a whole bunch of independent guesses you can average them, cast off the errant guess on either side and hone in on the right answer,” said Dr. Andrew Berdahl one of the University of Washington School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences’ newest faculty members.

Everyone Welcome! Winter Quarter Biology Book Club will meet for snacks and a brief discussion on Wednesday, March 6, at 4 p.m. in HCK 312. Please join in on the fun even if you haven’t finished the book. We hope to see you there!

Should scientists serve as advocates within the public sphere? What’s the harm in ‘dumbing down’ science? Want to learn more about the opportunities, challenges, and pitfalls of communicating science? Join us for our final 2019 Environmental Communications Panel.

The College of the Environment is pleased to announce the availability of undergraduate scholarships for the 2019-2020 academic year.