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Hurricane hunting with NOAA: Hollings Scholarship internship set for 2025

A young man, smiling and wearing a white tshirt and dark trousers, stands in front of a small plane parked on tarmac, with blue skies above.

When awarded the NOAA Hollings Scholarship, students spend a summer working on a topic related to the wide-ranging scientific expertise of NOAA, from fisheries to the atmosphere. For SAFS undergrad, Michael Han, he’ll be joining the NOAA Hurricane Hunters to take data from notable past missions and present them in a visualized format on NOAA’s Science on a Sphere display.

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Evolution and elongation in deep dwelling anglerfishes

A woman smiles into the camera while holding a footballfish specimen

Working with specimens from the Burke Museum and NOAA, Elizabeth Miller, a former postdoc at SAFS, was captivated by the great diversity of shapes of anglers, which was at odds with how the species is often depicted in popular culture (think Finding Nemo). Elizabeth set out to build a family tree of anglerfishes and delve into the evolution of new shapes, such as body elongation.

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From tropics to temperate: The shifting breeding ranges of seabirds amid climate change

A bird is pictured from the side/underside view, flying over the ocean. The bird has a white head and underside, with black/brown wings.

Across the globe, species are shifting their ranges in response to environmental changes driven by climate change. However, seabirds face distinct challenges in adapting to these shifts. Amelia DuVall, PhD candidate at SAFS and member of the Washington Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, recently published a paper reporting on the breeding range expansion of two pantropical seabird species—the Brown Booby and the Blue-footed Booby.

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Where are we now? Reflections on Tribal Fisheries and Co-Management 50 years after the Boldt Decision

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50 years on from the Boldt Decision, SAFS held a one-day Bevan Symposium reflecting on Tribal fisheries, their co-management since this landmark decision, and what the next 50 years will look like for Washington fisheries. Centering on Tribal voices, the symposium heard from Tribal leaders, elders, scientists, artists and lawyers, through a series of panels and Q&A discussions.

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One or many? Exploring the population groups of the largest animal on Earth

A large blue whale swims through blue water, with its blowhole visible.

Hunted nearly to extinction during 20th century whaling, the world’s largest animal, the Antarctic blue whale, went from a population size of roughly 200,000 to little more than 300. The most recent abundance estimate in 2004 put Antarctic blue whales at less than 1% of their pre-whaling levels. But is this population recovering? Is there just one population of Antarctic blue whales, or multiple? Why do these questions matter for conservation? PhD student, Zoe Rand, is tackling these questions in a new study.

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