A recent paper published in the journal FACETS features seven SMEA authors, titled Excavating the regulatory process and risks posed by Alaska hardrock mine expansions.
Open-access available here!
This paper represents the culmination of a SMEA capstone project! We hope it will be of interest to a broad audience, including NEPA practitioners, applied scientists, and citizens that current or future mining operations may impact. 

If you had to choose the biggest buzzword for people working in coastal management and climate-related fields over the past ten years, it might very well be ‘resilience.’ In recent years, the Biden-Harris administration has invested more than $50 billion in climate resilience—and nearly half is explicitly targeted toward coastal ecosystems and infrastructure. But what do we really mean when we talk about coastal and climate resilience? And what does it look like to work in this field?

Several SMEA graduates go on to complete year-long fellowships through programs like Washington Sea Grant and NOAA. Below, a few alumni share their fellowship experiences and how SMEA prepared them for these roles.

What is this column?  We are experimenting with ways to engage with our alumni and to inspire current students with their accomplishments. This section is a random walk through what we’ve recently observed about or heard from alumni.  Please keep Graduate Program Advisor, Tiffany Comtois-Dion up to date with your accomplishments and changes in location or employment. (tlcdion@uw.edu) 

About Featured Alumni: Each issue we feature an Alum to show in depth how SMEA has been part of their career trajectory in order to celebrate their accomplishments and to inform and inspire current students and our alumni about their education. In this issue, we feature an alumna whose career so far has been with the US Coast Guard (USCG).  SMEA has benefitted enormously from the mid-career officers and officers mustering out of the USCG.  Amanda Fisher SMEA in mid-career and graduated in 2010.  She is now retiring after 21 years of service and is contemplating how to share her expertise with SMEA and launch the next stage of her career.

Congratulations to Aina Hori, a recent SMEA graduate, who was selected as a finalist for the John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship! The Knauss Fellowship is a prestigious one-year fellowship awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Sea Grant College Program.

The U.S. Secretary of Commerce announced that Jamie Goen, Executive Director of Alaska Bering Sea Crabbers and SMEA alum, has been appointed to the North Pacific Fishery Management Council (NPFMC)

Sara Adams, SMEA student and Program Manager at Quiet Sound, highlights the achievements that earned her program a Sustainable Century Award for Environmental Education and Outreach from the Port of Seattle.

Yesterday, SMEA alumni hosted a lively Maritime Trivia Night at Broadview Tap House. The event was a fantastic opportunity for SMEA alumni, faculty, and both incoming and current students to connect and have fun

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