From Spirit Lake at Mount Saint Helens to coffee farms in Costa Rica, students are experiencing the best of the undergraduate education available at UW Tacoma! Click on thumbnails to view examples of current student research projects.

Research at Mt St Helens, Washington. Determining the overall nutrient budget for Spirit Lake.	The science behind shade-grown coffee in Costa Rica.
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UWT Faculty provide students with opportunities for research at the undergraduate level. This research is showcased in the UWTJournal on the Environment (UWTJoe), UWT Environmental Research Symposium (UWaTERS), and various print publications. Below is a list of publications co-authored by UWT students.

• Banks, J.E., Sandvik, P.J.*, and L. Keesecker*. 2007. Beetle (Coleoptera) and spider (Araneae) divesity in a mosaic of farmland, edge, and tropical forest habitats in western Costa Rica. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 83(2) 152-160.
• Banks, J.E. and C.L. Yasenak*. 2003 . Effects of plot vegetation diversity and spatial scale on Coccinella septempunctata movement in the absence of prey. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 108:197-204.
  
• Chin-Leo, G., R. Keil, C. Greengrove, C. Evans*. 2004. Bacterioplankton Dynamics in Intermittently Anoxic Fjords of Vancouver Island, British Columbia. American Society of Limnology and Oceanography National Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii.
• Evans*, C. T., B. Van Mooy, R. Keil, C. Greengrove and G. Chin-Leo. 2004. Active bacterial community dynamics in a coastal fjord measured using t-RFLP analyses of BrdU incorporated DNA. American Society of Limnology and Oceanography National Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii.
  
• Faubion*,L. and C.L. Greengrove. 2003. Distribution and Abundance of Phytoplankton in Barkley and Clayoquot Sounds, B.C. August 2002. Estuarine Research Federation National Meeting, Seattle, WA.
  
• Greengrove. C.L., R. Keil, G. Chin-Leo, and J. Grocock*. 2003. Physical Oceanographic Conditions in Barkley and Clayoquot Sounds B.C Canada, Late Summer 2000-2002. Estuarine Research Federation National Meeting, Seattle, WA.
  
• Osenga*, W.M., C.B. Tomkins* and C.L. Greengrove. 2003. Undergraduate Oceanographic Research: A Longitudinal Transect of Puget Sound, May 2002 & Historical Comparison. Georgia Basin/Puget Sound Research Conference, Vancouver, B.C.

* indicates Undergraduate co-author

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Project Earth

Project Earth is a student organization within the Environmental Program at UWT. Learn more here!

News From Costa Rica

Last year, the Tacoma News Tribune featured a blog from Ryan Moss, who was studying Environmental Studies at UW Tacoma. Ryan was in Costa Rica for three months, staying at a remote wildlife refuge where he studied the impact of lunar cycles on sea turtles' nesting patterns. Ryan's images have appeared in UW Tacoma's award-winning literary journal Tahoma West, and in Terrain, UW Tacoma's magazine. Read the TNT blog here.