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Bull kelp cover on the laboratory transects reached 64% of the 2018 baseline in the February 2026 survey, up from 31% in the summer after the 2024 marine heatwave. Dr. Naomi Okada’s group published the series in Limnology and Oceanography.
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The 86,000-square-foot hall on the Seacliff bluff, funded by the Hester gift and $19 million in state matching funds, is now the home of teaching labs and the Harbor Data Observatory desk.
The Coastal Science Academy named three AES faculty as fellows for kelp recovery, harbor flood mapping, and the household studies in The Working Waterfront.
Forty-eight students will spend a year split between Calder Bay, North Harbor College in Seattle, and the Lisbon Study Center. The first cohort leaves in August 2027.
Student teams spent 36 hours in Hester Hall. The winning crew, four undergraduates, delivered a documented tide-gauge kit that the port’s engineering office agreed to trial at Pilot Cove.
Ten years of household interviews in four harbor towns. The book is the fall reading in coastal economies and is on the shelf at the Seacliff Library.
Undergraduate applications for Fall 2026 rose 8% from the year before, to 9,420. First-generation applicants were 29% of the pool. Decisions followed on the published March date.
Tutoring, VITA tax sites, clinic transport, and beach crews. The hours are verified by the partner, not self-reported at the end of the year.
A materials group led by Dr. Tomas Nguyen ran a six-week trial with the North Pacific Fleet Cooperative. The panels held and were recovered. A paper is in the Journal of Cleaner Production.
The co-ed sailing team won the fall 2025 conference regatta by four points. Twelve of the fourteen sailors hold a GPA above 3.2, which is the team’s posted floor.
Tide, weather, and water-quality readings from 140 sensors update every hour. The feed is the teaching dataset for environmental data science and is posted without a login.
Lindgren, who wrote her senior project on the Pilot Cove float, returns as port director in January 2026. She has been the authority’s engineering manager since 2018.