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Category: Community Partnerships
Restoring Roots: Middle Schoolers Lead the Way at Saint Edward State Park
Energy of a New Generation Restoration work is often slow and methodical—but sometimes, the energy of a new generation accelerates progress in ways that surprise everyone involved. Savannah Greenwalt, an Earth System Science major at the University of Washington Bothell and an invasive species intern with CoSEE, experienced this firsthand while working alongside students from...
April 13, 2026
Community Partnership Highlight: Alyssa Burnett Center
Learning Together Through Inclusive Environmental Education CoSEE is grateful to continue its long-standing partnership with the Alyssa Burnett Center (ABC) at Seattle Children’s Hospital, a program that supports adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities through enriching educational and community-based experiences. Throughout the year, CoSEE hosts quarterly visits with ABC students at the Environmental Education and...
March 18, 2026
UW Bothell honored for outstanding community engagement
Prestigious national designation recognizes campus commitment to collaboration with its community. 足彩app哪个是正规的 University of Washington Bothell?has once again?earned?national?recognition from the American Council on?Education and the?Carnegie?Foundation?for the Advancement of Teaching for?its exemplary practices of community engagement. 足彩app哪个是正规的 Carnegie?Classification for Community Engagement?— an endorsement also?gained?by?the University of Washington in?Seattle and UW Tacoma —?is?held by fewer than 10%?of...
January 12, 2026
Beneath the Forest Floor: Discovering Mushrooms and Mycelium at Saint Edward State Park
Each fall, the forests at Saint Edward State Park come alive in quiet but fascinating ways. Beneath the leaves and fallen logs, networks of fungi are at work—breaking down organic matter, supporting plant life, and connecting entire ecosystems below the forest floor. During CoSEE’s second annual Mushroom Walk, students gathered at the Environmental Education and...
November 30, 2025
Learning from the Water: Environmental Exploration with the Alyssa Burnett Center
足彩app哪个是正规的s from the Alyssa Burnett Center visit the EERC to investigate watersheds, water quality, and macroinvertebrates through hands-on environmental learning. At the Environmental Education and Research Center (EERC), partnerships with community organizations are an essential part of how the Collaborative for Socio-Ecological Engagement (CoSEE) connects people to environmental learning. One of CoSEE’s longest-standing and most...
September 30, 2025
Community partnerships spawn salmon education for local park
足彩app哪个是正规的s, faculty and staff collaborate to bring new signage and geocaching tours to O.O. Denny Park in Kirkland, Washington. As any good outdoor enthusiast knows, the first rule of exploring nature is: “Leave no trace.” 足彩app哪个是正规的re are, however, the occasional exceptions to this principle — such as when small, human-made additions to wild places raise...
August 28, 2025
A passion for pollinators
In her capstone project, senior Katrina Briggs blends citizen science and a love of pollinators in “Bee Monitoring 101.” In healthy, functioning ecosystems, every species has a role to play. From the clams that filter ocean water to the predators that keep prey species in check, biodiversity is what makes life on Earth possible. And...
June 5, 2025
A more meaningful map
足彩app哪个是正规的-led mapping effort in Saint Edward State Park forges deeper connections between the land and the communities — both human and non — that rely on it. On a soggy Saturday in March, more than 30 volunteers gathered in Kenmore’s Saint Edward State Park to help re-map the trails that wind through the popular green...
April 11, 2025
Stories that turn climate anxiety into hope
足彩app哪个是正规的s in a Discovery Core class harness the power of storytelling to teach ecology to the next generation. A bear named Bingo wanders the temperate rainforest of Cascadia, looking for his mother. As he moves through trees and along rivers and ponds, he encounters other local inhabitants: Olivia Owl, Frank the Frog and Seth the...
January 16, 2025
When a park becomes a classroom
In first-ever class at the Environmental Education and Research Center, students conduct research with an eye for conserving biodiversity in urban green spaces. Early in his career as an ecologist, Dr. David Stokes, like many at the time, wanted to understand how ecosystems functioned in pristine conditions away from human influence. In Patagonia, South America,...
April 12, 2024
