Please join us this Thursday, April 25th, from 12-1 PM in FSH 203 or on Zoom for our second SMEA Speaker Series: Careers in Marine and Environmental Affairs. This week we will be hearing from four SMEA alumni, Henry Bell, Alex Erzen, Kirsten Feifel, and Bobbak Talebi who will be sharing their experience working with state and local governments.
Zoom: https://lnkd.in/dPa4uAQG
Meeting ID: 927 8726 9100
Passcode: seminar 

SMEA alum, Andrew Kenefick (’23), has been appointed to the Roundtable on Plastics Committee established by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to provide as a forum for examining issues associated around national efforts to reduce plastic pollution.

The Roundtable will serve as a collaborative platform for federal agencies and cross-disciplinary experts in academia, industry, and non-governmental organizations to discuss research initiatives. 

The School of Marine and Environmental Affairs will hold its next faculty meeting on Thursday, April 4, at 12:00 pm. Please see below for location details:
Ocean Sciences Building (OCN) Room 203 or via Zoom using the information below:
https://washington.zoom.us/j/98174117556?pwd=V1JQeldTdTFRRFlKc0E4Q3FSMEo2dz09
Meeting ID: 981 7411 7556
Passcode: 563969 US (Seattle)
A copy of the meeting agenda is provided. Please contact Kiley Pazcoguin (kpaz@uw.edu) with any questions or for more information. 

The School of Marine and Environmental Affairs will hold its next faculty meeting on Thursday, March 7, at 12:00 pm. Please see below for location details:
Ocean Sciences Building (OCN) Room 203 or via Zoom using the information below:
https://washington.zoom.us/j/98174117556?pwd=V1JQeldTdTFRRFlKc0E4Q3FSMEo2dz09
Meeting ID: 981 7411 7556
Passcode: 563969 US (Seattle)
A copy of the meeting agenda is provided. Please contact Kiley Pazcoguin (kpaz@uw.edu) with any questions or for more information. 

Location for all talks:On campus: Fishery Science Building (FSH), 1122 NE Boat Street, room 203Zoom:  NOTE: you will need to type in the password to enter the seminarVideo link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/92079340874Meeting ID: 920 7934 0874Passcode: seminarAudio-only option: +1 206 337 9723 US (Seattle)Meeting ID: 920 7934 0874

Thursday, October 12, 12-1 pm
Melissa Parks (she/her), Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Washington – School of Marine and Environmental Affairs and NOAA – Alaska Fisheries Science Center
Talk title: Exploring the Influence of Multispecies Interactions on Small Farmers’ Perceptions of and Responses to Climate Change in Oregon
Bio: Melissa Parks is an applied anthropologist researching human interactions with the environment and food systems in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. 

Congrats to SMEA’s 2023 Knauss fellows!
Devon Lombard-Henley

Diana Perry

Leslie Nguyen

To read the SeaGrant announcement: https://seagrant.noaa.gov/2024-knauss-finalists-announcement/ 

 
On June 28, 2023, Dean Tolstoy and Director Dolšak hosted Admiral Linda Fagan, Commandant of the U. S. Coast Guard and SMEA alumna (MMA ’00). For reference, Admiral Fagan is the 27th Commandant of the United States Coast Guard (USCG), overseeing operations of more than 50,000 members and a fleet of 259 cutters, 200 aircraft, and 1,600 boats. Admiral Fagan was in Seattle to preside over the change of command ceremony for Healy, an active icebreaker homeported in Seattle. 

SMEA student Courtney Skalley has been selected as a member of the 2023 Bonderman Fellow cohort. The Bonderman Travel Fellowship was created by UW alumnus David Bonderman in 1995 to fund global journeys as a way of inspiring individual transformation. The 2023 Fellows cover a wide variety of interests including:

Afro-futurism and presentism
Black diasporic history and culture
Counterculture formation as a tool for human connection
Linguistics and dialects
Musical events and concert culture
The relationship between a place’s natural resources and its cuisine, clothing, and culture
The role of the bicycle in community-building

Courtney is a second-year SMEA student with an interest in sustainable fisheries management. 

Recent SMEA graduates, Amelia Wells and Kellie Cutsinger (’23), completed their capstone “Community-Based Mitigation and Adaptive Strategies for River Flooding and Erosion in Alaska Native Communities”  with advisor Dr. Cleo Woelfle-Hazard and in collaboration with Iowa State University. As part of their work, a video was created highlighting the communities they collaborated alongside. A message from their Capstone community partner is shared below as well as a link to the completed video project. 

SMEA Director and Professor Nives Dolsak has co-authored a journal article published in PLOS Climate. The article titled, “Varieties of just transition: Public support in South Africa’s Mpumalanga coal community for different policy options” reviews public support for “Just Transition” (JT) through four policy types: individual compensation, financial support to local governments, individual reskilling, and upgrading local infrastructure. The primary focus is on South Africa for its large coal mining sector, and features in-depth interviews with over 50 coal miners, Eskom power planter workers, and community members within the Mpumalanga province.