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WSG Bait Party
Come join Washington Sea Grant’s Crab Team’s annual bonanza to cut, weigh, and bag all 1000lb of mackerel to be used across the green crab monitoring network in 2024. It can get a bit messy, but there are various jobs to choose from (some less messy than others), along with good music and even better company.

Virtual Open House: PoE Director Search
The Program on the Environment (PoE) is launching the search for their next director, and is seeking input from the program’s campus-wide community in the process. We are hoping that you can support our search by providing feedback in one of two ways: attend a virtual open house, and/or complete this short survey.
Read morePoE Student Volunteer's Needed: Support Navigating Organics Recycling!
PoE students can volunteer in multiple capacities! Additional question or interested, reach out to Maggie Brown, maggieb@cgcompost.com.
The attached flyer for this event contains details!
PoE Student Opportunity: City of Seattle Youth Transportation Summit, City of Seattle
PoE Students: the Youth Transportation Summit is an opportunity for you to communicate your voices, thoughts, ideas:
You’re Invited to the City of Seattle YOUTH TRANSPORTATION SUMMIT! The City of Seattle wants to center youth voices to identify “what’s next?” for transportation and climate justice!

UW Decarbonization & Student Energy Transformation Task Force Meeting on November 27th, 4-5 pm (zoom link below)
Student Energy Transformation task force meetings
By UW Sustainability | Nov 7, 2023
Students interested in learning more about the UW’s Energy Transformation strategy to decarbonize the Seattle campus energy system are invited to attend Student Energy Transformation Task Force meetings every other month.
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Two 2023 PoE Graduates Capstone Survey Work on Pedestrianizing Pike Place Market Featured in The Urbanist
2023 Environmental Studies graduates, Kat Lykins and Henry Lau, have their capstone survey work featured in The Urbanist:
Most Vendors Don’t Oppose Pedestrianizing Pike Place Market, Survey Shows

The Climate-Mental Health Nexus: How a well-being approach can provide lessons for win-win policies
Join the University of Washington’s EarthLab, the UW Environment and Well-Being Lab, and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Centre on Well-being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity (WISE) in a half-day public symposium on the intersection of climate change and mental health.
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UW Farm Harvest Dinner 2023
You are invited to an unforgettable evening at the annual “UW Farm Harvest Dinner” fundraiser.
Join us at the Center for Urban Horticulture to support and celebrate the UW Farm’s contributions to our community!
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Soil to Seed to Snack! Urban Agricultural Systems: a 4-week class opportunity for Seattle Promise students
Professor Eli Wheat, a faculty member in the Program on the Environment and Food Systems Nutrition and Health Program, alongside UW Farm manager and class co-instructor, Perry Acworth, will co-teach a Seattle Promise Academic Introduction Seminar titled Soil to Seed to Snack!