Education
WSG Education offers undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral fellowships and internships that expand students’ horizons and enhance their future careers, and it develops and supports initiatives for K-12 programs.
Highlights
- 12th Annual Orca Bowl. Washington’s regional high-school competition in the National Ocean Sciences Bowl will take place Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009, on the University of Washington campus in Seattle. Pre-registration is now open. For more information, see Orca Bowl.
- Oceans and Human Health Traineeships. The Pacific Northwest Consortium for Pre- and Postdoctoral Traineeships in Oceans and Human Health. This new opportunity will support four graduate students and up to two postdoctoral researchers over the next three years. For more information see OHH Traineeships.
- 2008 Marc Hershman Marine Policy Fellowship. Congratulations to Angie Fredrickson, UW School of Marine Affairs, and Nathalie Hamel, UW School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, Hershman Fellows for 2008. The Hershman Fellowship places two graduate students with agencies in the State Ocean Caucus in Olympia, working on ocean and coastal science and policy issues.
- 2009 Knauss Fellowship. Congratulations to Mark Gleason, UW School of Marine Affairs, and Caroline Paulsen, UW School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, newly accepted Dean John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellows for 2009. The Knauss Fellowship program provides eligible graduate students with a year of work experience on the staff of the U.S. Congress or with a federal agency addressing marine issues.
- 2008 Sea Grant/NOAA Fisheries Fellowship. Congratulations to Kevin See, UW Department of Biology, recipient of a Sea Grant/NOAA Fisheries Fellowship for 2008. Kevin is working toward his doctorate in quantitative ecology and resource management. His research focuses on estimating population growth and interspecies interaction parameters that will be applied to the west coast shelf groundfish community.
- 2008 Coastal Management Fellowship. Congratulations to Deborah Purce, Western Washington University’s Marine and Estuarine Science Program, who received a NOAA Coastal Services Center Coastal Management Fellowship for 2008. Deborah will be working with the Washington State Department of Ecology to develop a public-access portion of the Washington Coastal Atlas.