Environment

The Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers is the highest honor given by the U.S. government to early career scientists and engineers.

Samuel Wasser, Research Professor in Biology, explains the significance of the newest southern resident orca calf. 

Op-ed by Aseem Praskash, political science; Nives Dolsak, marine and environmental affairs. 

Researchers, including UW biology's Deborah Giles, are tagging chinook salmon in a bid to track their main prey

Aseem Prakash, Director of the Center for Environmental Politics, and Nives Dolsak, associate director of the School of Marine & Environmental Affairs, weigh in on the topic.

UW biologist Deborah Giles is one of many dismayed by the latest reminder of a population on the brink.

“Fishes of the Salish Sea” is a three-volume book and is the culmination of more than 40 years of research.

This week in the arts, visit an exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery or the Center for Urban Horticulture, attend a concert at the library, attend a field poetics workshop, and more!

These Washington researchers have made sure that the identities — and vivid colors — of the fish that live beneath the surface in our waters is known.

UW honors longtime Harvard professor and one of America's leading climate change scientists, James Anderson (BS, Physics, 1966).

The Chilean artist contemplates the "about to happen" in her first major solo exhibition in the United States at the Henry Art Gallery.

Professor of Anthropology, Holly Barker, weighs in on the latest findings.

Scott Montgomery, a lecturer at the University of Washington's Jackson School of International Affairs, weighs in on the new ice breaker.

Biology and Atmospheric Sciences professor Abigail Swann responds to a new study using tree rings to trace climate change and drought. 

Postdoctoral researchers Jessica Arbour and Abigail Curtis and Sharlene Santana, associate professor at the Burke Museum, focused on the diversity among bat skulls.