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Salmon and Grizzly Bears – Oh My!
Through the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, Sarah Schooler, ’15, spent six weeks in the Alaskan bush, collecting the same data in the field she’d been studying in the classroom: salmon and the hungry habits of grizzly bears.
Student collaboration leads to first results describing sick sea star immune response
Students from around the country worked together as part of a class on the ecology of infectious marine diseases, taught by SAFS professors S. Roberts and C. Friedman, to examine how genes express themselves in sick and healthy sea stars.
New report on known fish species living in the Salish Sea
UW Today featured SAFS professor Ted Pietsch, who co-authored a new report documenting all the fishes in the Salish Sea, from the familiar coho salmon to the intriguing dwarf wrymouth.
SAFS is hiring two Tenure-Track Assistant Professors
Update 08/17/2016: Thanks for your interest! These two positions have been filled.
Assistant Professor and Curator of Ichthyology at the UW Burke Museum
Assistant Professor, Marine Invertebrate Ecology
College scientists named to inaugural class of American Fisheries Society Fellows
SAFS professors Ray Hilborn and Tom Quinn and SAFS affiliate professor Fred Utter were selected as part of the first group of Fellows named in the American Fisheries Society (AFS). Fellows are recognized for their outstanding contributions to the diverse field of aquatic and fishery sciences.
Study compares hatchery/wild steelhead spawn timing, emergence, survival in Washington
SAFS graduate student Marissa Jones’s recently published study compares hatchery and wild steelhead spawn timing and survival in Willapa river.
Finding Friday Harbor
Recent SAFS alumna Susan Harris spent 10 weeks at UW’s Friday Harbor Labs on San Juan island studying zoology and botany. UW Today featured a profile on Susan’s experience.
North Pacific ‘blob’ stirs up fisheries management
A warm water mass in the Pacific Ocean is impacting forage species and stirring up more conversations about the need for ecosystem-based fisheries management. SAFS Professor Tim Essington weighs in.
New fish genus and species named for its red, fingerlike fins
SAFS Professor Ted Pietsch and SAFS graduate student Rachel Arnold recently relocated an elusive tropical frogfish, last seen in Australia in 1980. After collecting specimens and testing the DNA, they discovered they’d found a new genus and species of fish, now named the red-fingered anglerfish.
Meet Meryl Mims, SAFS Grad Student
Graduate student Meryl Mims is passionate about the conservation of Arizona treefrogs and is studying the effects of the species population decline.