The Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team (COASST), a citizen science program based at the University of Washington’s School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, is looking for 2-5 undergraduate students to assist with program’s upcoming marine debris data collection project beginning spring 2015. 

Make sure to stop by and support your fellow PoE students at the Autumn 2013 Capstone Symposium! For more information on the specific events and presenters, click here 

You’re Invited to:
The PoE Holiday Party!

When: Wednesday, December 4, 2013, 5:30 PM
Where: PoE Commons, Wallace Hall, Suite 012

We hope you can join us to celebrate the holidays, the end of the quarter, and the end of the Autumn 2013 Capstone Symposium with PoE faculty, staff, students, and alumni. 

The Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability office has an opening for a part-time Student Office Assistant position. This is a great opportunity for a qualified, dedicated student interested in sustainability topics to help build upon their skills and experience. 

Make sure to attend the Community Presentation for WIN 2014 ENVIR 480!  Come learn about the information discovered and the recommendations made by the class participants.   

Looking for a great class to round out your Winter Quarter 2014 schedule? Check this Planning and Permitting class out! 

“March to 70” RecycleMania Planning Committee positions open for winter quarter!

Purpose of the “March to 70” RecycleMania Planning Committee
The objective of the RecycleMania Student Planning Committee is to help UW rise in the rankings in the 2014 RecycleMania competition by engaging the campus community to recycle and compost more and send less waste to the landfill during the competition period.  

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Recent technology has allowed oil companies to extract oil from tar sands and shale deposits, in Canada and U.S. The risks are wide ranging: from oil spills along rail, marine, and pipeline routes to explosions to train traffic congestion to increased carbon emissions to degradation of habitat.  

Attend the following event this Thursday, November 21at 6:30pm in the Architecture Hall Room 147:
Steven Handel: “Dreams and Nightmares of Urban Restoration Ecology”
Small patches of native habitat in urban and suburban areas can supply ecological services, public amenities that are sustainable with relatively low maintenance costs. 

Interested in studying in Denmark and exploring it’s unique political, social, geographic, design, and planning context? 
Looking for funding to help support your experience….

The 2014-15 UW Scan|Design Fellowships are for you.