COSEE-OLC is proud to partner with Washington SeaGrant and the Puget Sound Partnership to host a workshop highlighting opportunities in Citizen Science. We are in the planning phase for the workshop. Look for more information posted to our website this fall.

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With the launch of NOAA’s ship Okeanos Explorer, marine education and exploration enters a new era.  This week NOAA hosts an Education Forum to develop plans for educational use of the new ship.  COSEE representation at this important forum include eleven current or former COSEE members.  OLC’s own Phil Bell is giving a presentation titled ‘How [...]

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Rick Keil, one of the COSEE-OLC researchers, has been evaluating how materials are transferred from urban homes to the sea.  Usually the compounds of interest are fun and safe (cooking spices).  However, last fall he teamed with esteemed researcher Anne Steinemann to evaluate the ‘nasties’ and their flow to the ocean.  Anne has just published a new work [...]

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The ocean acidification research bill passed the U.S. House yesterday. H.R. 4174, a top priority for oceans advocates, would create a new program to research and monitor the effects of ocean acidification on the marine environment. The House approved it by voice vote. 

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The Puget Sound Partnership recently released a 5 minute film, “Shifting Baselines”, as part of their public education campaign regarding the current status of the Puget Sound. COSEE collaborative work on cooking spices in Puget Sound made the final cut!  Watch the video 

The Puget Sound Partnership recently released a 5 minute film, “Shifting Baselines”, as [...]

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There has been so much intersting oceanography in the news lately; hundreds of off-axis earthquakes in the Cascadia Basin, flat-faced fish, and now new evidence of man’s relentless alteration of the oceans.  Turns out that relentlessly harvested fish leave behind populations dominated by juveniles; these young fish mature faster and are more likely to show genetic variability that [...]

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 Rick Keil, ocean scientist at the UW and COSEE-OLC co-PI, is currently working with undergraduate students on their senior thesis projects. This winter quarter the students guided by four instructors spent time examining relevant literature, selecting research problems, formulating hypotheses, and identifying approaches to test these hypotheses. The students wrote a proposal justifying the research [...]

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