The School of Marine and Environmental Affairs will hold its next faculty meeting on Thursday, February 6, at 12:00 pm. Please see below for location details:
OCN Room 203  or via Zoom
A copy of the meeting agenda, Faculty Meeting Agenda 02.06.2025, is provided. Please contact Hailie Borges (hrb25@uw.edu) with any questions or for more information. 

Why did you decide to pursue a Master of Marine Affairs?
I’ve always loved the ocean but never quite felt at home in my oceanography undergrad. I felt there was more I could be doing for conservation and sustainability. When I read the course description and looked into the classes, I felt like they were made for me!

Why did you decide to attend the UW, and SMEA specifically, for graduate school? 

The Northwest Straits Foundation is proud to welcome the 2025 Caroline Gibson Scholars in Marine Studies. The scholarship honors NWSF Director Caroline Gibson’s enduring legacy to the Salish Sea. During her lifetime, Caroline worked selflessly to build a diverse community of passionate individuals, organizations, and agencies committed to restoring its coastlines, waters, and habitat. Two SMEA students were recipients of this award: second-year student Taylor Hughes, and first-year student Isaac Olson. 

The US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is leading the first-ever National Nature Assessment (NNA1) to evaluate U.S. lands, waters, wildlife, biodiversity, and their contributions to our economy, health, culture, climate, and equity. The Assessment will also project future changes and their impacts. Marking the Zero-Order Draft (annotated outline) release in the Federal Register, the NNA1 is hosting in-person and virtual public engagement events to gather public comment during fall 2024. We are pleased to invite you to the NNA1 Public Engagement Event in Seattle, Washington on Friday, November 22, 2024.

SMEA is proud to share that Professor Terrie Klinger has been selected for the Western Society of Naturalists’ Lifetime Achievement Award.

Warm autumn greetings from all of us at SMEA. Our street is carpeted with red and golden maple leaves, mountains are expecting heavy snow, and NOAA is predicting king tides in the third week of November. In spite of the potential rough seas ahead, we are steadily working hard.

Dear SMEA Community,
With the academic year well underway, I’m excited to report on the work of the SMEA Director’s Council. Formed in May of 2023, the Council supports the Director of SMEA in their efforts to strategically position the school and its resources for the challenges our institution and society face in the 21st Century.  We are a diverse group of eight passionate members of the SMEA community with careers and experiences that reflect the interdisciplinary and collaborative philosophy of SMEA itself. 

SMEA faculty are committed to making our research publicly accessible. Therefore, most of our journal articles are published in open access journals and are hyperlinked in the below list. Faculty names are in bold, names of students and postdoctoral scholars trained by our faculty are underlined. The publications listed below include articles published between November 2023 and October 2024.

The North Pacific Marine Resources Endowed Fellowship has been a cornerstone for supporting student-led research and training related to North Pacific fisheries and marine resource management.

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?