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.  

This course examines the earth’s past for evidence of extreme climate conditions in order to better understand possible future climate changes. Conditions that occurred during the Neo-Proterozoic (Snowball Earth: 750 to 550 million years ago), the Cretaceous Hothouse (100 million years ago, and Pleistocene Icehouse (1 million years ago) will be compared to the Present Day Greenhouse climate.   

In Winter quarter, six experts on the Earth’s polar regions will present public lectures on the multifaceted ways in which those regions are changing.  The speakers include Arctic biologists Jody Deming and Dee Boersma, acclaimed photographers James Balog and Paul Nicklen, Inuit leader Sheila Watt-Cloutier, and former premier of the Yukon Tony Penikett.  

The Volunteer Habitat Restoration Program is provided through the Friends of the Cedar River Watershed. The program engages youth and adult volunteers in hands-on restoration activities. The internship focuses on learning and understanding the habitat restoration process and assisting with volunteer events.  

Thomas Jenkins
My Air Force-to-UW story starts in late June, 2010. I had been deployed in central Iraq for 3 months to support Air Ambulance operations for the U.S. Army, helping to transport patients north to the military hospital in Balad, Iraq. 

PoE is Hiring!

The Program on the Environment is looking for our next Administrator (75% FTE).
The Administrator serves as the administrative lead and support for Program on the Environment (PoE). 

POSITION:VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR
The Port Townsend Marine Science Center is seeking an energetic, experienced professional for our full-time paid Volunteer Coordinator position to inspire and manage a corps of 175+ volunteers in serving our mission to Inspire Conservation of the Salish Sea.