Kiddy Emmanuel, capstone student in the Program on the Environment, created a video about an innovative community farm project as one of her deliverables — and it was selected as one of the winners of The Next Fifty’s A Story Runs Through It neighborhood film project! Check out this inspiring short film below. Congratulations Kiddy! 

Before equipment is installed, Aresty listens to make sure sound is coming from both of the pipes attached to a recorder. Her compositions play at seven sites in the arboretum. (Image: Steve Rigman/The Seattle Times) A UW doctoral student composes a musical installation now playing at the Washington Park Arboretum, “Paths II: The Music of Trees”, heeding the call by UWBG‘s Director Sarah Reichard for UW students to incorporate the Arboretum in their art. 

Oceanographers from the Applied Physics Lab are headed out to sea… hopefully. Follow along with Jim Thomson, principal oceanographer, as he blogs for the Scientist at Work section of the New York Times. They’ve already had some challenges, but maybe it’ll be smooth sailing from here…. 

A new study published in Science suggests that the world’s unassessed fisheries — those with relatively little data describing their status — are declining rapidly, but that this trend could be reversed. SAFS‘ Ray Hilborn is a co-author; read more here!