The UW School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences hosts a weekly departmental seminar series every Thursday from 4:00 – 5:00 pm in the FSH 102 Auditorium. All seminars are free and open to the public.

AIS 375 is a special topics course titled Engaging the Waterways and will look specifically at the geographical, ecological, and cultural history of the physical campus grounds. It’s a hands-on course centered around the arrival of the Willapa Spirit honor canoe on campus this Autumn and will include walking tours, hearing from Native community elders and Canoe Families, and field expeditions.

“Tide Bites” is the monthly newsletter of UW Friday Harbor Laboratories. This month, outgoing FHL Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Brent Hughes discusses his research on river otters. Read a short excerpt below, or read the full story at: http://depts.washington.edu/fhl/tidebites/Vol61/index.html. Dr. Hughes talks about his work with three undergraduates working under ‘Doris Duke Conservation Fellowships’. Undergraduates from UW or any school are invited to learn more about this summer opportunity at http://uwconservationscholars.org/.

A vast underwater network of systems and sensors are capturing rich, never-before-accessed data from the mysterious world beneath our oceans.

To build a stronger community of scientists using that data to make new discoveries, oceanographers will convene at the UW for Oceanhackweek, August 20-24, 2018, five intensive days of collaborative investigations and tutorials in modern data analysis tools and techniques.

It’s always good to know where great white sharks are likely to be swimming. That’s true if you’re a nervous beachgoer, a fishing boat trying to avoid illegal bycatch, or a marine biologist hoping to conserve this vulnerable species. A study from the University of Washington and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution looked at the movements of adult female white sharks in the Gulf Stream and North Atlantic Ocean. Results showed, surprisingly, that they prefer warm-water eddies — the clockwise-spinning whirlpools in the ocean — and tend to spend more time deep inside these slowly spinning features.

The Pacific Coast Salmon Coalition is a regional fisheries enhancement group
located in Forks, WA. The organization’s focus is restoring salmon habitat.
This position, located in Forks, WA, serves as a project manager in support of the
lead project manager/executive director.

The range of projects includes but is not limited to volunteer coordination, project
development/implementation, in stream/near stream restoration, and crossing
design/construction.

The applicant for this position must be able to work collaboratively with the Pacific
Coast Salmon Coalition team, and to independently develop, manage, and
accomplish short-term and long-term project goals. The position reports to the
executive director.

Michelle Ma, from UW News reports on recently published research from the COASST lab on coastal seabirds:

“In the fall of 2014, West Coast residents witnessed a strange, unprecedented ecological event. Tens of thousands of small seabird carcasses washed ashore on beaches from California to British Columbia, in what would become one of the largest bird die-offs ever recorded.”

The Holtgrieve Ecosystem Ecology Laboratory (HEEL) has an excellent opportunity for a part-time laboratory technician during summer 2018.  We are seeking a reliable and motivated undergraduate or recent graduate to assist with various laboratory organization, sample processing, and data entry tasks.

The Sitka Sound Science Center is advertising for field crew for a summer fishery field project. The job involves daily sampling of post-spawning chum salmon in four streams in the Northern Southeast area.  This work involves remote stream work under a variety of conditions sampling post-spawning chum salmon for otoliths, tissue samples, and scales. Successful applicants will be well suited for working and living in a small group environment. The work entails extensive time in the field under challenging conditions (rain, bears, bugs), weekend work, and, may involve living on-board a chartered support vessel. The project has the potential to be funded each summer through 2019. Hiring is dependent on grant funding.

Protecting Washington State’s environment for current and future generations is what we do every day at Ecology. If you want to join a highly effective, collaborative team in exciting work dedicated to managing a sustainable water supply in Central Washington, this may be the position for you.

The Shorelands and Environmental Assistance (SEA) program within the Department of Ecology is looking to fill Coastal Resource Specialist (Environmental Specialist 3) position. This position will be located in our Padilla Bay Office in Mount Vernon, WA.

This position uses scientific principles in planning and implementing natural resource management, research, protection and enhancement for Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (PBNERR), monitoring and maintaining the Reserve’s resource base, and interacting with Ecology and other local, state, federal and tribal entities on natural resource issues, including NOAA/NOS/OCM. The Coastal Resource Specialist position also serves on various advisory committees regionally and statewide.