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Environmental Scientists Contribute to Latest Sound Monitoring Report

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

November 13, 2019
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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, 2019
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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, 2019
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Mud, Bugs and...Plastic

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

November 23, 2018
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$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, 2018
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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, 2012
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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, 2012
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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, 2012
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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, 2011
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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, 2010
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