Julia Parrish, professor of aquatic and fishery sciences and associate dean of academic affairs in the UW College of the Environment, was named the recipient of the 2024 Northwest Straits Environmental Leadership Award. The award recognizes those who have shown visionary leadership to advance the work of the Northwest Straits Initiative and push the program in new creative directions.
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50 years after the Boldt decision, the UW School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences (SAFS) hosted this year’s annual Bevan Seminar as a special one-day symposium reflecting on Tribal fisheries, their co-management since this landmark decision, and what the the next 50 years will look like for Washington fisheries. Centering on Tribal voices, the symposium heard from Tribal leaders, elders, scientists, artists and lawyers, through a series of panels and Q&A discussions.
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A new paper in Science analyzed 13 colonies surveyed between 2008 and 2022 and found that colony sizes dropped severely after the marine heatwave.
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Amid all the changes in Earth’s climate, sea ice in the stormy Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica was, for a long time, an odd exception. The maximum winter sea ice cover remained steady or even increased slightly from the late 1970s through 2015, despite rising global temperatures. That began to change in 2016. Several years of decline led to an all-time record low in 2023, more than five standard deviations below the average from the satellite record.
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