Researchers from UW Tacoma are developing innovative techniques that will reduce the time and cost needed to monitor blooms of a toxic phytoplankton species.

Environmental Scientists Contribute to Latest Sound Monitoring Report

November 13, 2019

UW Tacoma students and faculty have made important contributions to the Puget Sound Marine Waters 2018 Overview.

UW Tacoma student Maggie Jo Baer looks at a sediment sample through a microscope.

How They Spent Their Summer

October 3, 2019

A group of UW Tacoma students and one recent alumna spent their summer in the lab as part of Senior Lecturer Julie Masura's environmental research experience course.

Ed Kolodziej, Center for Urban Waters, University of Washington Tacoma

Kolodziej, Peter Featured in SIFF Documentary on Seattle's Thornton Creek

May 23, 2019

Center for Urban Waters' Ed Kolodziej and Kathy Peter talk about how daylighting and re-engineering restored the stream's ability to clean stormwater and host salmon.

Chiwaukum Fire, Washington State, 2014, photo by WA Dept of Natural Resources.

Center for Urban Waters Examining Camp Fire Runoff

December 4, 2018

A consortium of universities including UW Tacoma is hoping to learn what kinds of pollutants are emitted from communities affected by catastrophic wildfires.

UW Tacoma Senior Lecturer Julie Masura looks through a microscope.

Mud, Bugs and...Plastic

November 13, 2018

Senior Lecturer Julie Masura connects her love of teaching and her passions for geology and the health of Puget Sound.

Center for Urban Waters on the Thea Foss Waterway in Tacoma

$330,000 NSF Grant Expands Research on Toxic Pollutants in Urban Watersheds

July 31, 2018

Dr. Ed Kolodziej at the Center for Urban Waters is the lead researcher on a project with funding from the National Science Foundation that aims to identify what is killing coho salmon in urban watersheds.

Orca - image courtesy Center for Whale Research

Of Orcas and Oysters

May 9, 2018

A seminar on endangered orcas is just one way UW Tacoma is engaged with the Puget Sound ecosystem.

Dissected female coho salmon showing presence of eggs, confirming prespawn mortality.

Saving Salmon, Inspiring Scientists

December 8, 2017

While helping to stop alarming Puget Sound salmon die-offs, UW Tacoma researchers are introducing middle-schoolers to the excitement of field research.

The 2017 Center for Urban Waters Intern Symposium

2017 Center for Urban Waters summer internship program grooms future scientists

September 19, 2017

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