New research, led by School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences (SAFS) Postdoctoral Scholar Cheryl Barnes, School of Marine & Environmental Affairs (SMEA) Associate Professor Anne Beaudreau, and Richard Yamada from Alaska Reel Adventures, helps us better understand how large, toothy flatfish such as Pacific halibut and arrowtooth flounder coexist. Pacific halibut and arrowtooth flounder have a reputation for being voracious predators and may compete with each other for food and space. 

Why did you decide to pursue a Master of Marine Affairs?
While working as an environmental consultant for industrial companies, I grew to respect the work but realized it was not for me. I was working on a sea otter-related thesis at UC Davis, but it was difficult to research a really interesting facet of marine affairs at a landlocked university! 

Students completing the Capstone Track in their Master’s of Marine Affairs program will be delivering their findings and final report to the School of Marine & Environmental Affairs community this Friday (March 5th).
After a year of preparation, research, analysis, and reporting, Capstone projects culminate in a 25-30 minute presentation where the Capstone Project Team delivers their work to the client. 

The School of Marine & Environmental Affairs will hold its next faculty meeting on Thursday, March 4, 12:00 – 1:30 pm. Please see below for details on how to join;
Zoom Online Meeting
https://washington.zoom.us/j/93110470939?pwd=NE43RnF4dWxxenFyQzIzRmN5a1d6Zz09
Phone In
1-206-337-9723
Meeting ID: 931 1047 0939
Passcode: 065631
 
 A copy of the meeting agenda can be found here. Please contact Jackie Chapman (jachap@uw.edu) for more information. 

SMEA Professor Cleo Woelfle-Erskine, at the invitation of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has become a partner in a major new grant-funded project sponsored by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. As part of the foundation’s Just Futures Initiative, “Humanities Education for Anti-racism Literacy (HEAL) in the Sciences and Medicine (STEMM). He joins co-PIs Cheryl Bauer-Armstrong (Native Education); Christy Clark-Pujara (Higher Education); Elizabeth Hennessy (Coordinator and Higher Education); R. 

Could you describe your experience in applying to and selecting a graduate program?
When I applied for graduate school, I was working as a junior acoustician with NOAA’s Northeast Fisheries Science Center. I looked at a bunch of schools and programs, and my main criteria were 1) interdisciplinary or multi-disciplinary ocean-focused program and 2) located in a coastal city. Most of my training and experience at that point was skewed toward natural science, and I had been living in kind of isolated areas for the past 6 years (college in central Pennsylvania and a 2-year research gig without a car in Highlands, NJ). 

SMEA affiliate professor Dr. Amber Himes-Cornell and alumna Kathryn (Katy) Dalton, along with co-authors Juan Francisco Lechuga Sánchez and Rebecca Metzner of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization collaborated to publish a review on the enabling conditions necessary to ensure successful establishment of territorial use rights for fisheries (TURFs). Allocating or recognizing fishing tenure rights via TURFs can lead to a wide array of social, economic, and ecological responses, both positive and negative. 

Please join us via Zoom on Thursday, March 11, 12:00-1:00pm PST when Dr. C.N.E. Corbin will be presenting “In Red, Black, and Green: The Political Ecological Eras of Oakland, California 1937-2020.”  This will be the last presentation for Winter Quarter 2021 in the SMEA Environmental Justice Speakers Series.
Dr. Corbin will share her work in examining Urban Environmental Policy and Practice and its intersection with Environmental Justice. 

The documentary short They Keep Quiet So We Make Noise was accepted to the Melbourne Short Film Festival and nominated for the Best Short Documentary Film Award. The work is the directorial debut of SMEA alum Marlena Skrobe ’20, a filmmaker and plastic pollution researcher. The film allowed Marlena to merge her research tools with her storytelling skills and her commitment to identify, expose, and help solve global environmental injustice perpetuated in global plastic recycling. 

A study by Arizona State University, the University of Washington and other institutions examined the impacts of seafood mislabeling on the marine environment, including population health, the effectiveness of fishery management, and marine habitats and ecosystems. Co-author and SMEA Professor Sunny Jardine helped to design a statistical analysis to compare the product on the label with the one that was actually consumed.