FieldSound is the official podcast of UW College of the Environment, offering immersive and narrative storytelling. Hosted by Sarah Smith, the podcast features interviews with researchers from the University of Washington who share their groundbreaking discoveries. FieldSound aims to entertain and educate, highlighting the excitement and significance of environmental research.

In the latest episode of FieldSound, our own faculty member, Ryan Kelly, was featured to discuss his interdisciplinary approach to environmental research.

Throughout the spring quarter, we hosted five sessions of the SMEA Speaker Series, featuring distinguished SMEA alumni as panelists. These experts shared insights from their careers across various sectors including Native American and Tribal Governments, state and local governments, nonprofits and advocacy organizations, the U.S. Federal Government, and the private sector. If you missed any of these informative sessions, you can access the recordings below.

On Thursday, June 6th, 2024, the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs held its graduation ceremony where 33 graduates received their Masters in Marine Affairs.
Congratulations, SMEA Class of 2024! 

Date: Thursday, June 6, 2024

We will be celebrating the Class of 2024 and the 33 students earning their Masters in Marine Affairs (MMA) in June! SMEA graduates join the esteemed group of 800+ alumni and world class policy makers building a resilient future in marine and environmental affairs.

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR GRADUATES!

SMEA student Adriana Apintiloaiei has been selected as a member of the 2024 Bonderman Fellow cohort. The Bonderman Fellowship was created by UW alumnus, David Bonderman, in 1995. This fellowship provides graduate and professional students with the opportunity to independently travel abroad to encourage discovery and learn to understand the world in new ways. The 2024 cohort cover a wide variety of interests including:

Interconnectedness
Reciprocal relationships with land
Disability rights
Biracial identities
Notions of the Absurd across the world
The connection between people and water
Queer communities around the world

Please join us this Thursday, May 30th, from 12-1 PM in FSH 203 or on Zoom for our final SMEA Speaker Series: Careers in Marine and Environmental Affairs. This week we will be hearing from four panelists: Chris Boylan, Dan Hull, Elise Lasky, and Annika Saltman who will be sharing their experience working in the private sector.
Zoom: https://lnkd.in/dPa4uAQG
Meeting ID: 927 8726 9100
Passcode: seminar 

By Taylor Hughes, Class of 2025
A few days in the Pacific Northwest is enough to see that salmon and orcas are the region’s lifeblood. These species elicit deep emotional responses that tie people to this place and make marine resource management a dinner-table topic. Historically, seaweed has not topped the list of priorities for marine conservation, despite playing a significant ecological role in supporting economically and culturally important species. 

Dear SMEA friends!
SMEA is humming with activities. On May 10th, we had eight outstanding thesis presentations, that featured research spanning across the entire globe, from Bangladesh, to Maine, New York, Alaska, Columbia River, and Salish Sea, examining ways to manage and respond to vastly different marine and environmental challenges, such as impacts of climate change on plankton, fisheries, large marine mammals and natural-resource dependent communities, potentials of community science to improve ocean data, and factors impacting permitting of tidal energy. 

By Ben Johns
On behalf of the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs (SMEA), thank you for your part in making SMEA’s graduate degree program truly special. We are grateful for the many contributions of alumni and supporters to such an incredible legacy. 
Today, we humbly ask you to make a gift in support of SMEA students. Gifts of any amount make a difference in the lives of students and their bright futures.  

By Dave Fluharty
Brian Offord (1983)
By Brian Offord
I worked for the office of the Governor in the States of Hawaii and Washington, and US Territories, Northern Mariana Islands, as manager of coastal zone and marine programs in the Pacific Region, and major riverine and estuarine stems the Columbia River and Puget Sound. It has been and remains a very gratifying experience that has given me opportunities for broad involvement in a variety of disciplines.