Graduates, friends, family and other members of the UW community are warmly invited to the UW School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences 2022 Graduation Celebration on Friday, June 10, 2022.

Join us for the 2022 UW Aquatic Sciences Open House hosted by SEAS this Saturday (May 21st) from 10 AM to 4 PM in FSH. We hope to see you all there!

The Founders’ Medal is awarded to persons who have made a substantial contribution to the study of the history or bibliography of natural history through a sustained record of high-quality publications, and a sustained contribution to dissemination of the history of natural history through practice or curation. 

By mounting a specialized mobile sonar called a DIDSON (Dual-frequency IDentification SONar) under a kayak, UW research scientist Kerry Accola is able to count the juvenile salmon along the shoreline from the water’s surface. The sonar is capable of capturing high fidelity images during the day and also the night, when normal visibility is greatly reduced.

Graduate student Jessie Hale released a paper rethinking the status, trends, and equilibrium abundance estimates of Washington State’s sea otter population and Ruth Drinkwater’s (BS 2021) capstone project, “Estimating proportions of identical twins and twin survival rates in cetaceans using fetal data,” was published in Marine Mammal Science.

Congratulations to José Guzman and Sarah Converse who were recognized by the UW College of the Environment for Exceptional Mentoring of Undergraduates and Outstanding Diversity Commitment, respectively

SAFS’ Julian Olden has been named a 2022 fellow of the Ecological Society of America

Parasites play an outsize role in balancing ecosystems, and some species may be in danger. Read the article from Scientific American featuring SAFS’ Chelsea Wood.

SAFS Emeritus Professor Jim Karr began a long-term bird study in Panama 55 years ago while he was a Ph.D. student and later as a professor of ecology at the University of Illinois. He explains that the core of the current study design and its methodology were initiated in 1977. The study continues to this day under its third generation of leadership.

The SAFS community shares thoughts on what it’s like to be back on campus after nearly 18 months of mostly remote instruction and administration.