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Ocean Currents 9/1/20

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"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one forever in its wonder." Jacques Cousteau

Welcome to the reborn Ocean Currents, a weekly bulleting of news and upcoming events for the UW School of Oceanography. If you have news or stories to contribute, please contact Su Tipple.

News from the Director

Congratulations Max Showalter on your successful PhD defense.

Thank you to the nearly 200 people who filled out the culture survey. Identifiers in the data are currently being stripped out by an outside consultant and the faculty council will give the data a quick look next week in preparation for our upcoming Culture Survey Town Hall. The tentative date for this is Monday September 14th, 3-4pm. Everone welcome to attend and look over the data together.

Our annual fall welcome celebration, Oceanography Convocation, will occur virtally this year on Thursday October 8th at 3:30pm. The planning team has some ideas to make this event special and to make up for the lack of a pizza party. In addition to welcoming our newest community members and honoring recent students, staff and faculty who have achieved major milestones or won awards, we will have a raffle and some ocean trivia, and we wil be announcing the new fall Afloat challenge.

Afloat Challenge

Please stay connected, please win the limited edition enamel pin! Click here now to update your social distancing data. There have been multiple winners of the level 2 prize, chocolates from our own Bill Fredricks. There is still time to play and win.

Graduate student Erik Fredrickson has announced a new fun challenge, the Back to School Bike Bingo. Check his recent email describing the fun. Erik decided to put this together to fill the void in his heart left by the absence of Bike Benefits' usual bingo event. Any non-fossil fuel means of transport is fine, so join the fun. You can download the bingo card here.

Volunteer-led Race Talk Meeting

Join us for Race Talk Next Wednesday, September 2nd. Thanks to Rosalind, Hannah, and Claire for organizing this. Register to attend here. No need to reregister if you attended the last meeting. Discussion will be on the second half of “Americanah” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Do the reading as much as possible, if you did not complete the reading please attend but focus on listening. Slides for the discussion are posted in the Race Talk Folder.