Co-director of the Washington Ocean Acidification Center and professor of Marine and Environmental Affairs Terrie Klinger sits down with Columns Magazine to talk about the ocean and how it’s changing. Klinger is a marine ecologists who has long studied the nearshore and intertidal ecosystems of the US west coast, and is now shepherding research that looks at how ocean acidification may affect the way those systems work.
Read more at Columns Magazine »College of the Environment awards first Hall Conservation Genetics Research Awards
The College of the Environment is pleased to announce Meryl Mims and Charlie Waters—both of the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences—as the first recipients of the Hall Conservation Genetics Research Award, which is made possible by a generous gift from the Benjamin and Margaret Hall Charitable Lead Trust. Meryl is doctoral candidate working on a project entitled “Conservation genetics of a Distinct Population Segment of the cryptic dryland amphibian Hyla wrightorum (the Arizona treefrog)” along with her faculty advisor Julian Olden.
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