Come help out a Capstone student!
Laura Lee is conducting a trash audit following the last husky men’s basketball game on March 9th as part of her Capstone. She needs about 30 volunteers to help with the project. 

This week’s Nature, an International Journal of Science, chose to highlight UW CoENV’s leadership in sustainability education! Above is the section that features the College of the Environment. To view the published article, go here.
  

Undergraduate Diversity at Evolution 2013

The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center presents the undergraduate travel award to bring talented and diverse undergraduates to the Evolution meetings this June 21-25 in Snowbird, Utah.   

Come join John Palka at a reading and signing event for the book he has been working on since his retirement from the Department of Zoology and the Program of the Environment at UW in 2002. 

1:00pm:  Terence Leach“Uncovering the Evolutionary Relationships of Pseudo-nitzschia”Terence Leach is currently a freshman attending the University of Washington- Seattle.  His intended major is Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology with a minor in Marine Biology.  

Tired of large classes? Looking for a unique class only offered this spring? The following course can count for the natural science, policy and decision-making, or fieldwork requirements of the Environmental Studies major or minor. 

In 2011 Education Outside, in partnership with San Francisco Unified School District launched the Corps for Education Outside—the first service corps program in the United States dedicated to transforming urban public schools into centers of 21st century experiential learning, environmental sustainability, and innovation. 

The Mangrove Action Project, an international NGO focused on conserving and restoring mangrove forests around the world, has launched a campaign called “Question Your Shrimp.”  The campaign aims to increase awareness and change behaviors around the consumption of farmed shrimp from overseas, which has proven to be so highly destructive of mangrove forests around the world and the rich ecology and marine life these forests support. 

The next Sound Steward training is coming up in two weeks!  Sound Stewards is a volunteer program that ensures the long-term success of nearshore restoration areas while creating environmental leaders of all ages and walks of life.