The College of the Environment at the University of Washington is slated to recognize its award recipients at a college-wide celebration on Tuesday, May 3rd.  Among those recognized will be two students with ties to the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs; current first-year student Bryce Lewis-Smith and incoming student Aina Hori.
Lewis-Smith is being honored with the Outstanding Community Impact award, for which nominees can be faculty, staff, or students from across the College. 

In just a few weeks, the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs will showcase an impressive slate of presentations featuring the hard work SMEA students have put into their theses, as well as a final Capstone Presentation for a group whose work was impacted by the pandemic. The thesis presentations happening on Friday, May 13th will be offered in a hybrid format, so people who are on campus can participate in MAR 168, while folks who need to join online can do so. 

School of Marine and Environmental Affairs Director Dr. Nives Dolšak has been appointed to the Washington Coastal Marine Advisory Council (WCMAC) by Governor Jay Inslee. Effective immediately Prof. Dolšak will occupy the Education Position on the Council.

WCMAC was established by the Washington State Legislature in 2013 as a forum to represent the interests of coastal residents of Washington’s outer coast.  

Current SMEA student, Andrea Richter-Sanchez ’23 will be spending her summer with the Surfrider Foundation, an organization “dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of the world’s ocean, waves and beaches, for all people, through a powerful activist network”.
Richter-Sanchez will be serving as the Coasts and Climate Graduate student intern, and will hold the position for the duration of the ten week internship beginning in June and ending in August, before returning to SMEA for Fall Quarter. 

US Coast Guard Vice Commandant Admiral Linda Fagan ’00  was nominated to head the US Coast Guard, as announced by the Biden Administration on Tuesday, April 5th, 2022. Adm. Fagan would become the first woman to lead a branch of the US military.
Fagan is a graduate of the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, completing a thesis entitled “Improving the quality of information in the marine transportation system: an exercise in risk reduction”. 

The School of Marine & Environmental Affairs will hold its next faculty meeting on Thursday, April 7, 12:00pm. Please see below for details on how to join;
In person @ Ocean Sciences Building, Room 203 or
Zoom Online Meeting
https://washington.zoom.us/j/94705406674
Phone In
1-206-337-9723
Meeting ID: 947 0540 6674
A copy of the meeting agenda can be found here. Please contact Jackie Chapman (jachap@uw.edu) with any questions or for more information. 

The School of Marine and Environmental Affairs is continuing to make their quarterly Speakers Series available virtually to create easier access for students, alumni, and friends to participate in the presentations and discussions.
This quarter’s lineup features four speakers offering a wide variety of topics:
Thursday, April 14, 12-1 pm: Eréndira Aceves Bueno, Assistant Professor, University of Washington, School of Marine and Environmental Affairs will present “Overcoming barriers to coastal governance in Mexico”. 

Seattle’s Bryant Elementary Science Fair features teams of 5th graders who have worked with mentors to formulate a hypothesis, develop appropriate experiments, analyze results, and draw/communicate conclusions. Current SMEA students Asiya Hussein and Jenna Rolf provided leadership, enthusiasm and expertise as they developed a scientific investigation for the teams of 5th graders that they each mentored.
 
 
The Bryant Elementary Science Fair is one way that current SMEA students give back to the local community, and is important for introducing STEM to elementary students in an exciting, engaging, and interactive way. 

The Washington Coast Resilience Action Demonstration Project (RAD) was a two-year (2019-2021) partnership between the Washington State Department of Ecology and Washington Sea Grant that provided multi-organizational hazards assistance to communities on the Pacific Coast of Washington and laid the groundwork for future coastal resilience efforts. Bobbak Talebi ’15, Tressa Arbow ’19, and Henry Bell ’20 from the Washington State Department of Ecology, and Jackson Blalock with Washington Sea Grant spearheaded the development of this joint project. 

School of Marine and Environmental Affairs alumna Jean Flemma ’93 recently co-authored an op-ed piece for the Seattle Times last week examining the effectiveness of a US ban on Russian seafood. As one of the most frequently globally traded food commodities, seafood is difficult to trace, and a ban on the sale of Russian seafood may prove ineffective.  Read the full piece here: https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/russian-seafood-ban-is-meaningless-without-real-traceability/