The 33rd Annual Graduate Student Symposium (GSS) will be held on Friday, November 18th, 2022, from 9am to 5pm in FSH 107, with a poster session and reception beginning at 5pm in the FSH lobby. This event is a wonderful opportunity for SAFS graduate students to share their current, past, or proposed research and get feedback from other students, faculty, and scientists. 

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. 

SAFS Professor Emeritus Kenneth Chew passed away peacefully on September 24, 2022 in Seattle, WA at Swedish First Hill with his wife Meagan by his side and surrounded by his loving family. Ken was nationally and internationally recognized as an authority on the biology of shellfish and aquaculture. 

This year, more than 78 million sockeye salmon returned to the estuaries of Western Alaska, a record high and a stark contrast with most salmon populations elsewhere as urban infrastructure and rising water temperatures threaten numerous species. University of Washington professor Daniel Schindler told Soundside that sockeye salmon have been climate change winners in recent years, but the exact reason why remains unclear. 

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. 

Starting back up on Thursday 29 September at 4pm, join us in-person for the first of the 2022 Autumn Seminar Series, where we take a deep dive with experts into topics of interest in aquatic and fishery sciences.
The first seminar will be delivered by Professor Thomas Quinn on ‘Changing themes in salmon conservation: A 45-year personal perspective’.

With speakers joining us from academia and governmental and non-governmental agencies and organizations, the weekly seminars will be followed by a catered reception from 5-6pm. 

From the Pacific Northwest and Alaska to further afield, rivers are one of the aquatic environments where UW School of Aquatic and Fisheries Science (SAFS) researchers are actively working to ensure a healthy, sustainable ecosystem for the future.
On World Rivers Day – an international celebration and awareness day for the world’s waterways – we are highlighting some of the extensive research underway at SAFS and through partnerships with different institutions. 

Along the seawall, which was designed with the help of UW scientists and engineers and serves as the foundation for the city’s new waterfront, the researchers count herring, shiner perch, sand lance, a growing host of invertebrates and, most importantly, salmon. All kinds of salmon.
This is just one place where the UW’s expertise touches on Seattle’s new central waterfront project, an $835 million public-private effort to reconnect the city’s downtown with Puget Sound. 

Few people would consider launching a boat into Seattle’s Elliott Bay on a winter morning. It’s cold, dark, and more often than not, wet. But the steadfast members of Seattle’s Tengu Club, a Japanese American fishing club that held its first annual salmon derby in 1946, can reliably be found doing just that.
When he first read about the Tengu Derby in the Seattle Times over a decade ago, UW School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences (SAFS) Professor Thomas Quinn’s interest was piqued. 

Coral reefs can adapt to climate change if given the chance to evolve, according to a study led by Coral Reef Alliance, Rutgers University, the University of Washington and other institutions.
The recent study, published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, finds that coral reefs can evolve and adapt to the effects of climate change—but only if we protect a sufficient diversity of coral reefs, particularly when it comes to temperatures.