ONLINE DEBATE: Large no-take areas – Is their total environmental impact positive or negative? With Callum Roberts and Ray Hilborn
Date: Tuesday, Oct 8, 2013
Time: noon US EDT / 9 am US PDT / 4 pm GMT
To join the debate on Oct 8: http://openchannels.org/node/4410
This will be an online, text-based debate on whether the total environmental impact of large no-take areas is ultimately positive or negative. 

This summer SAFS graduate student Emma Timmins-Schiffman along with Bryan Bartley (Bioengineering), and Lauren Vandepas (Biology) – have mentored a group of high school students from local Seattle schools. The students have accomplished some pretty impressive research projects over the course of the summer as they learn about interactions between the environment and local biota. On August 26 at 4 pm, the students will be presenting their research in a  research symposium in FSH 102. 

You are invited to the first annual Half Baked Extravaganza!
When
Tuesday May 14, 8:30 AM to 5 PM
Where
Main Auditorium of the Northwest Fisheries Science Center
2725 Montlake Blvd. E. – Seattle, WA
We will start with coffee and donuts at 8:30 and the talks will begin at
9:00 a.m. There are fifteen talks scheduled on a range of subjects and
fisheries. 

Visiting post-doctoral researcher, Melissa Evans (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada) will be giving an informal brown bag seminar titled:
“Ecologically-driven evolution: insights from the salmonid immune and oxygen delivery systems”
Location: Fish 203
Date: Monday March 11th
Time: 12:30 pm
All are welcome to attend.
Contact Peter Westley at (resolute@uw.edu) if you would like to arrange a time to meet with Melissa. 

“The Living Breath of Wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ”
Indigenous Ways of Knowing
Cultural Food Practices and Ecological Knowledge
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
http://depts.washington.edu/native/wordpress/?page_id=299 

U.S. waterfronts account for over 6.75 million jobs, $284 billion in wages, and $645 billion in income. Yet across the United States, this valuable real estate is getting squeezed as increasing coastal populations generate conflicts over access to and uses of waterfronts. This March 25-28, Tacoma, Wash., will be the meeting site for coastal communities seeking a shared vision for the future of working waterfronts. 

The 2013 Bevan Series explores the medical, ecological, and ethical
issues around “Should we eat fish?” (dates and topics appended).
Speakers examine a diverse array of topics including whether pregnant
women should eat fish, heart health and fish intake, governance,
sustainability, energy use, and conservation.  The highly acclaimed
speakers include medical researchers, a chef, economist,
policy-makers, scientists, and a MacArthur Genius Award-winner. 

Mark your calendars for the Annual UW Water Symposium.
Date: April 30, 2013
Location: the newly renovated HUB!
More details, as they become available, can be found here:
http://www.tacoma.uw.edu/center-urban-waters/2013-university-washington-water-symposium 

Please join the Alaska Salmon Program for our 2012 Science Symposium
When: Friday, November 30, 2012, 1:30 ~ 5:30 pm
Where: Fishery Sciences Building (FSH) – 1122 NE Boat St.
Location: Room 102 (auditorium)
This annual symposium showcases the research of the UW School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences’ Alaska Salmon Program undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff and visiting scientists.  

Washington Sea Grant, the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences (SAFS), and the University of Washington College of the Environment invite you to attend a preview of this year’s assessment for
Eastern Bering Sea (EBS) pollock — the target of one of the world’s largest fisheries. The purpose of this forum is to provide fishery stakeholders and the public the opportunity to learn about the status of the EBS pollock stock and to ask questions and discuss the science underlying the assessment.