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How They Spent Their Summer
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.
October 3, 2019Main Content
Kolodziej, Peter Featured in SIFF Documentary on Seattle's Thornton Creek
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.
May 23, 2019Main Content
$330,000 NSF Grant Expands Research on Toxic Pollutants in Urban Watersheds
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.
July 31, 2018Main Content
Scientists building crowdsourced encyclopedia to further Puget Sound recovery
The Encyclopedia of Puget Sound, a new tool for networked science, will be curated by the Puget Sound Institute at UW Tacoma.
October 16, 2012Main Content
Tacoma's Center for Urban Waters awarded LEED Platinum Certification
The building, on the east bank of the Thea Foss Waterway, houses the City of Tacoma Environmental Services Division, UW Tacoma researchers and labs and the staff of the Puget Sound Partnership.
May 7, 2012Main Content
Funding for UW Tacoma and WSU Puyallup labs to fuel economic development
The new Urban Clean Water Innovation Partnership Zone will bring to UW Tacoma $2 million for a new "Clean Water Innovation Development and Technology Transfer Laboratory."
April 23, 2012Main Content
Interning for a greener future at Center for Urban Waters
Talk of stormwater and storm drains sounds so gray, so grimy, so boring. Yet mention stormwater to UW Tacoma’s Brian Hite, Jacob Moore and John Pelerine, and get set for an animated discussion.
December 9, 2011Main Content
Center for Urban Waters recognized for real estate development
The Center for Urban Waters was recognized by the Washington chapter of NAIOP, The Commercial Real Estate Development Association.
November 29, 2010Main Content
Puget Sound Institute receives $4 million from EPA
The Institute will facilitate the scientific study and interdisciplinary cooperation needed to maintain a healthy Puget Sound.
September 13, 2010Main Content
Center for Urban Waters brings new research to Tacoma
The new Center for Urban Waters building on the Thea Foss Waterway will house two research initiatives, the Puget Sound Institute and the Storm Water Technical Resource Center.
March 3, 2010