News and Events

Information of interest to members of the School of Marine Affairs will be posted under the appropriate categories as it becomes available.

Explore—College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences (COFS) Newsletter

Articles about the activities of faculty, students, and staff of COFS units—including the School of Marine Affairs—are available online as downloadable PDF files. Please see the COFS website for issues starting in 2001.

Symposia, Conferences, Workshops & Seminars

Water Center Seminars, Autumn 2007
9 October, 8:30-9:20am, 223 Anderson Hall, UW Seattle campus
Sponsored by the Water Center
http://depts.washington.edu/cwws/Outreach/Events/Tuesday/F07/tuesdayF07.html
Further info: Debbie, cwws@u.washington.edu, 206-543-6920

The October 9th seminar will feature SMA Associate Professor. Her talk is titled, "Marine ecosystem management in the San Juan Archipelago."

SMA Students and Faculty Attend 5th International Coastal and Marine Tourism Congress

Professor Marc L. Miller, SMA alums Rachel M. Gregg (MMA 2007) and Katrina Lassiter (MMA 2007), and SMA second-year students Sara Earhart and Maile Sullivan will travel to Auckland, New Zealand to participate in the 5th International Coastal and Marine Tourism Congress (CMT, of which Prof. Miller is a co-founder), September 11-14, 2007. According to a statement from Michael Luck, Conference Chair, "The CMT is widely considered the world's foremost tourism and hospitality gathering related to tourism and recreation in the marine environment, and is attended by academics and practitioners from around the world."

Coastal Zone 07: Brewing Local Solution to Your Coastal Issues
July 22-26, 2007, Portland Oregon
CZ 07 Flyer
http://www.csc.noaa.gov/cz/index.html

The biennial Coastal Zone conference, now in its fifteenth edition, is the largest international gathering of ocean and coastal management professionals in the world. Nearly 1,000 people attend, representing federal, state, and local governments, academia, nonprofit organizations, and private industry. The conference gives these attendees a platform to discuss the issues facing our world’s coasts and oceans and a forum for discovering new strategies and solutions.

Coastal Zone 07 will be held in Portland, Oregon, July 22 to 26, 2007. The overall conference theme, “Brewing Local Solutions to Your Coastal Issues," will be highlighted in oral and poster presentations that use case studies, lessons learned, and success stories.


Seminars, Talks, Panels, and Other Presentations

Water Center Seminar
DeeAnn Kirkpatrick, Fisheries Biologist, NOAA Fisheries (SMA '90)
Managing Stormwater for Healthy Salmon Populations in Puget Sound
Tuesday, May 1, 2007, 8:30-9:20am
The Water Center, 223 Anderson Hall

Effects of the 2006 Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act
April 12, 2007, 7:30-8:45pm
Nordic Heritage Museum, 3014 NW 67th St, Seattle

The UW College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences is convening members of the fishing industry, government and University of Washington faculty and students to discuss the 2006 MSFCMA.

Hosted by David Fluharty, Wakefield Professor of Ocean and Fishery Sciences, UW School of Marine Affairs, the program features commentary on the implications of the amendments by Frank Lockhart, NMFS, Deputy Regional Director, Pacific Region and Paul MacGregor, Mundt MacGregor Law Firm and At-Sea Processors Association, Alaska.

Hearty appetizers and drinks will be served beginning at 7:00 p.m. RVSP to Cara at 206.685.1456, caram@u.washington.edu.

Program format:

  1. Overview of MSFCMA Reauthorization—Dave Fluharty
  2. Analysis and Commentary on Implications for WOC—Frank Lockhart
  3. Analysis and Commentary on Implications for Alaska—Paul MacGregor
  4. Questions and Comments from Audience

Global Warming and Ocean Acidification: Double Trouble for Marine Ecosystems
Monday, April 23, 2007, 7 pm
Kane Hall, Room 120, UW Seattle campus
http://depts.washington.edu/uwpcc/ourprog/Feely2007_lecture.html

UW Program on Climate Change is sponsoring a public lecture by Richard Feely (Supervisory Oceanographer with NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Lab, Seattle) on global warming and ocean acidification. For more information, including a link to a KUOW interview with Feely and Sabine on this topic, please see the above-cited website.

Puget Sound/Georgia Basin Environment Talk:
Mike Rylko and Heidi Siegelbaum, Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10
Data Needs a Date: Transforming Data in a Vibrant Puget Sound/Georgia Basin Community
Thursday, April 5, 2-3 pm pm
Allen Auditorium, Allen Library, UW Seattle campus
http://www.epa.gov/region10/psgb/indicators


Water Center Seminar
DeeAnn Kirkpatrick, Fisheries Biologist, NOAA Fisheries (SMA '90)
Managing Stormwater for Healthy Salmon Populations in Puget Sound
Tuesday, May 1, 2007, 8:30-9:20am, The Water Center, 223 Anderson Hall
http://depts.washington.edu/cwws



Kudos

Congratulations, SMA Graduates 2007

Please join us in extending our congratulations to the following students, who recently graduated from the SMA program:

Students Meet Requirements for GTTL Certificates

Congratulations to first-year students, Tedd Hutley and Jessica Sanford, who completed all requirements for their GTTL Certificates (Global Trade, Transportation and Logistics Studies).

SMA Grad Student Awarded FLAS Fellowship

We congratulate Joe Zelasney, who has been chosen to receive a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship. Joe plans to study in China, which includes combining language studies with an internship at a port facility. Joe is featured in Global Trade and Transportation andd Logistics Studies' (GTTL) Spring Quarter 2007 Newsletter (pdf).

SMA Alum and Faculty Member Bag Journal Cover

Congratulations to 2004 SMA alum Kim Engie and faculty advisor Dr. Terrie Klinger, whose joint paper on Kim's thesis work has just been published in Journal of the Estuarine Foundation (ERF), a leading journal in estuarine process and ecology studies. Not only that, their work garnered the much coveted cover illustration, the symbolic highlight of the issue, and most suitable for framing. The article is available online: http://estuariesandcoasts.org/contents/ESTU2007_30_2.html.

Maile Sullivan Receives 2007 Blankenship Award

Congratulations to Maile Sullivan, SMA first-year graduate student and the 2007 recipient of the Blankenship Award. Maile is interested in studying educational aspects of marine wildlife tourism in developing nations.

Ed Miles Profiled by National Academy of Sciences

Recently, SMA faculty member Ed Miles was profiled in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). We include the first section of the profile below and invite you to read further at the PNAS website:

Edward L. Miles is one of the few National Academy of Sciences (NAS) members without a formal background in science. However, his extensive studies in international relations and oceanography have brought him into the thick of the debates regarding the laws of the seas and climate change. Elected to the NAS in 2003, Miles is the Virginia and Prentice Bloedel Professor of Marine Studies and Public Affairs at the University of Washington (Seattle, WA) and Senior Fellow at the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, also at the University of Washington. In his Inaugural Article the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Miles et al. PNAS 2006 103:19616-19623), Miles and his research team propose the creation of a National Climate Service in the United States.

Assistant Professors Christie and Klinger Promoted

Warmest Congratulations to Assistant Professors Terrie Klinger and Patrick Christie, both of whom have been promoted to Associate Professor, commencing Autumn Quarter. In other words, they have both been granted tenure, the successful end of a long and arduous process that began late last summer and ended with final approval by the Provost and Board of Regents. This is the single most important gate through which a new faculty member must pass on the road to a successful career in the academy, so please join us in congratulating Patrick and Terrie.

Ruth Howell Joins Finalists for Presidential Management Fellow Finalist

Congratulations to Ruth Howell for becoming a finalist in the PMF competition. She deserves a round of applause just for getting through the application process! For more on the PFM finalists, we encourage you to see the website, https://www.pmf.opm.gov/FFinalist.aspx.


Passings

We are saddened to hear of the passing of SMA alumna Susan Snow-Cotter (UW '89). For more information, see the Boston Globe obituary.


General Announcements

E-RESOURCE: Subject Pages
http://www.lib.washington.edu/subject/

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Computing Support Now Available Until 8:00 pm
http://www.washington.edu/computing/contacts.html

UW students, faculty, and staff can get help with their UW NetID, computing, and network issues 8:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. Monday-Friday and Sunday 1:00-8:00 p.m. from Computing & Communications. Call, email, or walk-in. These extended hours also benefit evening workers at UW Medical Centers.

SMA Students and Faculty Assist State with Ocean Policy
http://uwnews.org/uweek/uweekarticle.asp?articleID=24377

Washington's first formal ocean policy aims to prepare for looming changes along the shores of a state renowned for its natural resources. Much of the information gathering, synthesis and writing has been conducted by Master's students, including John Hansen, and led by SMA faculty member Marc Hershman. Working collaboratively with legislators, agency personnel, tribal representatives and Gov. Christine Gregoire's staff, the students have already helped to generate a 60-page interim report, developed an e-mail newsletter and are now helping draft parts of the final report. Please see the website via the above-listed link for more information.

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