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An Olympic orientation: UW Climate Impacts Group and Washington Sea Grant pilot a learning institute for emerging environmental professionals

Many job orientations start in a lobby or a conference room. This one began at the scars left by a dam and wound its way to the mouth of a great river.

January 20, 2026

Sixteen emerging environmental professionals – of different backgrounds, but together undertaking a new chapter in their careers – gathered for lunch on the pebbly shore, waves lapping near where the Elwha empties itself into the Strait of Juan de Fuca, on the Olympic Peninsula. Their tour of ...

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WSG Puget Sound Science Research Fellowship launches with two new fellows

October 7, 2025

Congratulations to our new WSG Puget Sound Science Research Fellows!

We are excited to announce that Gabe Diephuis and Isaac Olson have been awarded the new WSG Puget Sound Science Research Fellowship!

Launching this year, the WSG Puget Sound Science Research Fellowship aims to support graduate students conducting research that advances Puget Sound recovery and to prepare them as the next generation of science leaders in the region. WSG administers and manages the fellowship program with funding from the ...

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WSG welcomes inaugural cohort of Coastal Resilience Fellows

September 17, 2025

Congratulations to our new WSG Coastal Resilience Fellows!

We are pleased to announce that recent graduates Anabel Baker, Elyse Kelsey, Madeleine Lucas and Rich Desanto have been awarded the Washington Sea Grant (WSG) Coastal Resilience Fellowship for 2025–2027.

This is the inaugural cohort of the new WSG Coastal Resilience Fellowship, a unique educational opportunity for early or shifting career professionals to provide additional capacity for coastal communities around coastal resilience. A two-year, paid fellowship ...

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Four recent Washington graduates are finalists for the John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship

October 17, 2024

Washington Sea Grant (WSG) is excited to announce that four recent Washington graduates have been selected as finalists for the John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship.

The Knauss Fellowship is a prestigious one-year fellowship program awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Sea Grant College Program. Since 1979, the fellowship has provided graduate students the unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience developing and implementing policy on marine, coastal and Great Lakes issues. Fellows ...

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