The UW Aquatic Sciences Open House is back on Saturday 16 May, offering a free and family-friendly day of hands-on learning to celebrate science and research that relates to water. Visitors can step on board a research boat used for local science, and experience real working science labs here at the university. We also have hands-on activities led by current UW students, staff, postdocs, and faculty across the College of the Environment and by organizations from the greater Seattle area.

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Returning on Tuesday, March 31st at 1.30pm, join your fellow SAFS community for hot drinks, tasty treats, and conversation each week during the Spring Quarter.
Are you a student? Staff member? Faculty? Researcher? Take a break from your day and get to know others working at SAFS. All are welcome!
Tuesdays at 1.30pm in the second floor kitchen area near the patio. 

The UW School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences (SAFS) is pleased to announce the availability of scholarships for current and prospective majors in SAFS (includes high school students and transfers applying for admission to UW in 2026-27). 

Call for Applications: International Exchange with University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy. The University of Washington and the University of Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB) are excited to announce a fellowship opportunity through the Erasmus+ KA171 program.  This exchange program aims to strengthen international collaboration in marine science by providing a fully funded 2-week research stay at UNIMIB in Spring 2026.  Faculty/researcher will visit the University of Milano-Bicocca, in Milan, Italy. The fellow will conduct an educational exchange with Dr. Francesco Saliu’s lab at UNIMIB. His lab focuses on marine environmental chemistry, chemical ecology, and analytical chemistry, with applications to environmental sustainability and pollution research. Application Deadline: Feb 25th, 2026.

Zoe Rand is a recipient of this year’s College of the Environment Graduate Dean’s Medalist award, a PhD student in the Quantitative Ecology & Resource Management (QERM) Program and member of SAFS Professor Trevor Branch’s lab, using mathematical and statistical models to study the population dynamics of baleen whales.

We’re excited to announce a new undergraduate degree in the School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences (SAFS): Bachelor of Science in Aquatic Conservation and Ecology (ACE). Coming to UW in Autumn 2025.

The Aquatic Conservation and Ecology (ACE) degree is about the ecology of aquatic organisms, the rivers, lakes, and oceans in which they live, and how we conserve them for the benefit of people and the planet. This degree integrates the disciplines of ecology, evolution, and quantitative sciences and applies these principles to contemporary conservation and natural resource management issues.

Join SAFS for the screening of a new documentary, Scale of Change, on 8 May at 6pm. The documentary explores how individual actions, no matter how small, can lead to monumental transformations for the Atlantic salmon.

The UW Aquatic Sciences Open House is back on Saturday 17 May, offering a free and family-friendly day of hands-on learning to celebrate science and research that relates to water. Visitors can step on board a research boat used for local science, and experience real working science labs here at the university. We also have hands-on activities led by current UW students, staff, postdocs, and faculty across the College of the Environment and by organizations from the greater Seattle area.

Mark Scheuerell, SAFS Professor, has been named as an ASLO 2024 Sustaining Fellow, part of a cohort recognized for their sustained excellence in their contributions to ASLO and the aquatic sciences. ASLO is the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography.