Puget Sound is one of the best places in the United States to capture energy from the tides. Tidal currents throughout the Sound move especially swift in the narrow spaces around islands and peninsulas. Those currents are what developers were eyeing when they proposed the first Pacific Northwest tidal energy pilot project in Admiralty Inlet, between the Olympic Peninsula and Whidbey Island.
Read more at UW Today »Environmental Studies' Kristi Straus receives 2017 Distinguished Teaching Award
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.
Read more in Columns »Invasive lionfish feasts on new Caribbean fish species
Caribbean coral reefs have been invaded by lionfish, showy predators with venomous spines. And they’ve found a new market to exploit: the ocean’s “twilight zone” — an area below traditional SCUBA diving depths, where little is known about the reefs or the species that inhabit them. Researchers from the University of Washington and Smithsonian Institution have reported the first observed case of lionfish preying upon a fish species that had not yet been named.
Read more at UW Today »Scientists set the stage for a more just, equitable seafood sector
Marine scientists from UW and other organizations launch a global agenda to curb social and human rights abuses in the seafood industry.
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