Offered for the first time this Winter, a new course on Freshwater Ecology and Conservation – FISH 200 – will be taught by Professor Julian Olden and Professor Gordon Holtgrieve.
With hands-on experience in wet labs and field trips, get the chance to journey through the underwater world of rivers and lakes and explore the life and death of organisms in a rapidly changing planet. 

Washington Sea Grant announces that Ashley Townes, who is completing her doctorate in fisheries ecology at SAFS, has been selected as the 2022–2023 WSG Keystone Fellow. 

The Founders’ Medal is awarded to persons who have made a substantial contribution to the study of the history or bibliography of natural history through a sustained record of high-quality publications, and a sustained contribution to dissemination of the history of natural history through practice or curation. 

Congratulations to José Guzman and Sarah Converse who were recognized by the UW College of the Environment for Exceptional Mentoring of Undergraduates and Outstanding Diversity Commitment, respectively

SAFS’ Julian Olden has been named a 2022 fellow of the Ecological Society of America

After a decade of serving as director of SAFS, André Punt is stepping down to focus on his teaching and research. Over the past ten years, he has navigated the School through challenging times, such as the ongoing pandemic, as well as historic highs, like the Centennial Celebration in 2019. Please join us in thanking André for going above and beyond as SAFS Director.

SAFS Associate Professor Chelsea Wood is the recipient of a 2022 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). This prestigious award will support Wood’s novel research on the historical ecology of parasitism and will allow her to create an active-learning, open-access version of her undergraduate parasite ecology course.

The UW College of the Environment is pleased to announce that Professor Tim Essington has agreed to serve for a five-year term as director of the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, effective July 1, 2022. Essington is a fisheries ecologist, whose research focuses on the application of ecological knowledge to sustain fisheries and ecosystems. He has an active research program in Puget Sound examining consequences of climate change, hypoxia, and nearshore restoration on food webs, and he is also well known for his global syntheses of fish and fisheries data to reveal ecosystem responses to fishing.

Join us weekly for a new SAFS tradition! Every Monday at 2:30pm, a faculty member will host SAFS Café on the 2nd floor patio of FISH. Bring your coffee or tea and enjoy some refreshments and conversation with colleagues.

Future Rivers invites you to a special film screening on October 14th of the documentary, River to the Heart (105m), followed by a conversation with the director, Eddy Harris, author of Mississippi Solo. This documentary charts Eddy’s adventures as a lone Black man canoeing 2,318 miles down the entirety of the Mississippi River.