The deepest-dwelling fish in the sea just got one more bragging right.
The World Register of Marine Species, or WoRMS, has named the Mariana snailfish one of its 10 “remarkable new species” discovered in 2017. The team that discovered and named the small fish that lives at ocean depths of up to 8,000 meters (26,200 feet) includes Mackenzie Gerringer, a postdoctoral researcher at the UW’s Friday Harbor Laboratories.
The United States just suffered the most intense hurricane season in more than a decade, and possibly the costliest ever. Hurricane Harvey hit Houston in mid-August. Hurricane Irma struck Florida in early September, followed just two weeks later by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.
Now, with the close of hurricane season on Nov. 30, new UW faculty member Shuyi Chen, professor in the UW’s Department of Atmospheric Sciences and an expert on hurricanes, answered a few questions about the state of hurricane forecasting and the 2017 storm season.
New faculty at UW Environment
Sixteen outstanding new faculty members with a wide range of experiences and expertise have recently started or will soon start at UW’s College of the Environment. The College community — its undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff — will benefit immensely from their contributions during the 2017-2018 academic year and beyond. The College’s impressive group of scientists and researchers now includes:
Andrew Berdahl, assistant professor, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
Edward Blanchard, research assistant professor, Atmospheric Sciences
Greg Bratman, assistant professor, Environmental and Forest Sciences
Randelle (Randie) Bundy, assistant professor, Oceanography
Shuyi Chen, professor, Atmospheric Sciences
Sarah Converse, associate professor, Environmental and Forest Sciences and Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
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UW Environment is pleased to announce that Yaamini Venkataraman and Laura Spencer, both Ph.D. students in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, are recipients of the 2017 Hall Conservation Genetics Research Award. The fund is made possible by a generous gift from the Benjamin and Margaret Hall Charitable Lead Trust.
Yaamini Venkataraman
Yaamini’s work broadly focuses on the effects of environmental stressors, including ocean acidification and warming, on shellfish.
Congratulations to UW Environment’s Kristi Straus! The lecturer at UW’s Program on the Environment was recently selected to receive the 2017 Distinguished Teaching Award. She will be honored at UW’s Awards of Excellence ceremony on June 8, 2017 at 3:30 p.m. at Meany Hall.
Distinguished Teaching Award recipients are chosen based on a variety of criteria, including mastery of the subject matter, enthusiasm and innovation in teaching and learning process, ability to engage students both within and outside the classroom, ability to inspire independent and original thinking in students and to stimulate students to do creative work, and innovations in course and curriculum design.
It is graduation season, and with that comes well wishes for our graduates and an opportunity to shine a light on their accomplishments. In appreciation of their contributions to enriching the College of the Environment in numerous ways, the College has decided to fund a project jointly with the Campus Sustainability Fund. Recognizing our students are the next generation of leaders in environmental science and decision-making, we believe this is a contribution that showcases our collective commitment to the sustainability and the well-being of our Husky Community and our planet.
UW College of the Environment is happy to announce the following undergraduate and graduate scholarships awarded for 2017-2018!
Del Rio Endowed Environmental Studies Scholarship
The Del Rio Family Foundation established the Del Rio Endowed Scholarship Fund for Environmental Studies to encourage and support students who are interested in the environment and participating in the Educational Opportunity Program promoting academic success and graduation for under-represented ethnic minority, economically disadvantaged and first generation college students at the University of Washington.
Do you know a student, faculty or staff member who deserves recognition for their work at the College of the Environment? Nominations for the 2017 College of the Environment Awards are open now though Friday, February 24, 2017 at 5:00 p.m. Submit your nominations in any or all of these categories:
Distinguished Staff Member
Exceptional Mentoring of Undergraduates
Graduate Dean’s Medalist
Outstanding Community Impact: Staff or Faculty
Outstanding Community Impact: Student
Outstanding Diversity Commitment
Outstanding Researcher
Outstanding Teaching Faculty
Undergraduate Dean’s Medalist
Full details, including criteria and eligibility and past winners, are available on the College website.
Eight outstanding new faculty members with a wide range of experiences and expertise have recently started or will soon start at UW’s College of the Environment. The College community—its undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff—will benefit immensely from their contributions during the 2016-2017 academic year and beyond. The College’s impressive group of scientists and researchers now includes:
Beth Gardner, assistant professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences
Sunny Jardine, assistant professor, School of Marine and Environmental Affairs
Van Kane, research assistant professor, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences
Phil Levin, professor of practice, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences
Alexis Licht, assistant professor, Earth and Space Sciences
Jackie Padilla-Gamino, assistant professor, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
Luke Tornabene, assistant professor and curator of fishes, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
Chelsea Wood, assistant professor, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
Jodi Young, assistant professor, School of Oceanography/Future of Ice
Welcome to all!
In this episode of FieldSound, KOMO 4 Chief Meteorologist Shannon O’Donnell and University of Washington students speak about the formation of the UW Dawgcast, born out of ATM S 493: Media & Meteorology in the UW Department of Atmospheric Sciences.
ATM S 493, which launched in 2020, is the first broadcast meteorology class offered on the West Coast. With it, the UW joins Pennsylvania State University and Mississippi State University as schools that offer broadcast meteorology instruction.
On Monday, large parts of the United States will experience a total solar eclipse. This eclipse is expected to be a more significant event than the one in 2017, and the next one visible from the U.S. won’t happen until 2044. The sky will darken in Uvalde, Texas, just seconds before 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time (1:30 p.m. local time in Texas) on April 8.