On April 29, join the Washington Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit for their WACFWRU Annual Meeting.  The morning will be a showcase of student research supported by the Unit.  The program starts at 8am with a continental breakfast. Click here for the agenda and a lineup of presentations.
Date and Time
April 20, 2015, 8 AM to 1:30 PM
Location
UW Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
1122 NE Boat Street
Fishery Sciences Building, Room 203
Seattle, WA 98105 (map)
 
  

The Washington Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit would like to invite you to join us for our Annual Research Review on Wednesday, April 30th.  The review will showcase student research that is supported by the Unit at both the UW and WSU. Please see the following agenda for presentations and times.

DATE and TIME: April 30, 2014, 8 AM
LOCATION: 203 Fisheries Sciences Building, University of Washington, Seattle
AGENDA
08:00 AM             Continental Breakfast08:30 AM             WELCOMEChris Grue – Unit Leader, WACFWRU, UW
Joe Margraf – Supervisor, Western Cooperative Research Units, USGS
Steve Bollens – Director, School of the Environment, WSU
Tom DeLuca – Director, School of Environmental & Forest Sciences, UW
09:00 AM              STUDENT PRESENTATIONS – SESSION 1 
“The Niche for Reintroduced Anadromous Salmonids in the Lewis River Reservoirs” – Mark Sorel, MS student, School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences, UW
“Will a Reintroduced Species Survive in a Non-native Dominated Food Web? 

Preview of the 2013 Eastern Bering Sea Pollock Stock Assessment
When: November 6, 2013; 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.; Reception 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Where: Fishery Sciences Building, University of Washington, 1122 N.E. Boat Street, Seattle,
Room 102 (Auditorium)
Washington Sea Grant, the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, and the University of Washington College of the Environment invite you to attend a preview of the most recent assessment of the Eastern Bering Sea (EBS) pollock — the target of one of the world’s largest fisheries — on November 6 at 4:00
p.m. 

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.