SEAS hosts the Seattle Aquarium Youth Ocean Advocates at SAFS
Ending the year with a special outreach event, the Students Explore Aquatic Sciences (SEAS) group hosted the Seattle Aquarium Youth Ocean Advocate volunteers.
With a tour of SAFS, the UW Fish Collection and other labs in the College of the Environment, the group – made up of local high school students – had insight into the extensive research and scientific projects across UW’s marine science programs.
The students started off with a tour of the Fish Collection which is home to millions of specimens of fish, egg, larvae, and otoliths (the ear stones of fish). Next up they visited the Argo Float Lab, part of School of Oceanography, and finished off with a tour of the Zooplankton Lab.
Student outreach is an important part of SAFS work, encouraging and engaging a new generation of young scientists to get involved with aquatic and fishery research.
Interested in being involved in the work of SEAS whilst studying at UW? Want to organize an outreach event at your education institution? Get in contact with SEAS.