The School of Marine & Environmental Affairs will hold its next faculty meeting on Thursday, May 6, 12:00 – 12:55 pm. Please see below for details on how to join;
Zoom Online Meeting
https://washington.zoom.us/j/91616868033?pwd=a2VKYzIxSnF5YVg0blMxMmFrWVgvZz09
Phone In
1-206-337-9723
Meeting ID: 916 1686 8033
Passcode: 613105
A copy of the meeting agenda can be found here. Please contact Jackie Chapman (jachap@uw.edu) with any questions or for more information. 

School of Marine & Environmental Affairs (SMEA) Professor and Director Nives Dolšak, University of Washington (UW) Political Science Doctoral Student Rachel Castellano, and UW Director of the Center for Environmental Politics Aseem Prakash recently wrote an article published on PLOS ONE titled “Willingness to help climate migrants: A survey experiment in the Korail slum of Dhaka, Bangladesh.”
Bangladesh faces a severe rural to urban migration challenge, which is accentuated by climate change and the Rohingya crisis. 

SMEA alumna Vice Adm. Linda L. Fagan has been nominated by the White House to be the next Vice Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard.
She currently serves as the commander of the Coast Guard Pacific Area, overseeing all Coast Guard missions from the Rocky Mountains to the waters off the East Coast of Africa. Fagan concurrently serves as commander, Defense Force West and provides Coast Guard mission support to the Department of Defense and Combatant Commanders. 

Spring Quarter brings a new slate of speakers for the SMEA Environmental Justice Speakers Series. Events will continue to be virtual through Spring Quarter, occur on Thursdays beginning at 12:00pm until 1:00pm PST, and are open to all. To RSVP please email SMEA Program Coordinator, Leah Quinn (leahq@uw.edu).
 
April 29: Scott Schuyler, Natural Resources Director, Upper Skagit Tribe
If you’ve caught King5 news lately, chances are you’ve seen Scott and his important work to raise awareness of the impacts of hydropower dams on the Skagit River and the detrimental impacts felt by his tribe, including the environmental concerns. 

School of Marine & Environmental Affairs Professor Cleo Woelfle-Erskine and Comparative History of Ideas Department and Program on the Environment Lecturer July Hazard put together a series to ask “what is queer ecology?” The series includes climate scientists, ecologists, choreographers, poets, and creatives who each share unique perspectives on how queer and trans identities can and do play important roles in shifting the way we think about the sciences and our relations with the more-than-human.  

Gakushi Ishimura, a School of Marine Affairs (SMA) alumnus, was one of nine distinguished conservation researchers from around the world that were named 2021 recipients of the Pew fellowship in marine conservation. The program was created to provide support to midcareer experts seeking solutions to the challenges affecting the world’s oceans.
Gakushi will examine how fisheries and coastal communities respond to extreme events, such as natural disasters and the COVID-19 pandemic, to inform marine conservation strategies in Japan. 

The School of Marine and Environmental Affairs (SMEA) seeks a Professor of Practice who specializes in the human dimensions of fisheries. The Professor of Practice position is reserved for distinguished practitioners or academicians who have had a major impact on a field important to the University’s teaching, research, and/or service mission. This is a multi-year, full time (100% FTE), 12 month non-tenure track position. 

The School of Marine & Environmental Affairs will hold its next faculty meeting on Thursday, April 1, 12:00 – 1:00 pm. Please see below for details on how to join;
Zoom Online Meeting
https://washington.zoom.us/j/96588592753?pwd=aFhrbVk2d3RVaWVEcExzbEFtaUx0QT09
Phone In
1-206-337-9723
Meeting ID: 965 8859 2753
Passcode: 449487
A copy of the meeting agenda can be found here. Please contact Jackie Chapman (jachap@uw.edu) with any questions or for more information. 

They Keep Quiet So We Make Noise, the directorial debut of Marlena Skrobe ’20 has been awarded the Audience Award for Best Documentary Short for the 2021 Washington DC Environmental Film Festival. The festival, whose mission is “to advance understanding and stewardship of the environment through the power of film”, is celebrating its 29th year, and is being held virtually due to the ongoing COVID pandemic. 

The future of an equitable and sustainable global ocean, or “Blue Economy,” depends on more than natural or technological resources. A new study finds that socioeconomic and governance conditions such as national stability, corruption and human rights greatly affect different regions’ ability to achieve a Blue Economy — one that is socially equitable, environmentally sustainable and economically viable.
A paper published March 17 in Nature by the University of Washington-based Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center suggests how different parts of the world might begin to achieve these goals.