Salish Sea Modeling Center & Hyak presentation by Dr. Tarang Khangaonkar, Modeling Center Director May 2022

The Salish Sea Modeling Center (SSMC) is a coastal ocean modeling laboratory and a collaborative computational platform for research related to water quality management and marine ecosystem restoration. The vision of complex hydrology, hydrodynamic, water quality, and ecosystem models on a single platform is realized at SSMC by eliminating the challenges associated with computational power and storage, and by providing access to established regional models and associated analytical software, and availability of skilled modelers for research and development support. The SSMC platform was established on the UW's HYAK Supercomputing cluster in collaboration with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory with funding support from the City of Tacoma and is part of the Center for Urban Waters at UWT.  Watch the recording here: https://youtu.be/_Oe57yGb5_A 

Qual Quorum April 2022 Workshop

The Spring forum focused on doing qualitative research during the pandemic. What were challenges and how people pivoted. Watch here: https://youtu.be/_y52g7Ka_Fo

Grants Management 101 April 2022 Workshop

Lisa Isozaki, UWT Office of Research Director, provided information on the different types of funding that can support research and scholarship (sponsored program awards vs. service contracts vs. gifts) and then walked participants through UW wide policies, tools, and systems that are in place to specifically support grants management of sponsored awards. The group reviewed the Research lifecycle starting with Project Set-Up through Closing and Lisa discussed how the UW Tacoma Office of Research can help faculty and staff navigate each step of the lifecycle. Watch here: https://youtu.be/8W8eCyiABD4

Social Justice Research and Scholarship Initiative Committee Learning Circle February 2022

The Social Justice Research and Scholarship Initiative Committee (Dr. JaeRan Kim, Dr. Robin Zape-tah-hol-ah Minthorn, Dr. David Reyes and Dr. Anaid Yerena) hosted an opportunity to engage in a learning circle with other UW Tacoma faculty and graduate students about critical conversations on how we engage in social justice research. The group practiced critical inquiry by asking: What are the goals of research grounded in social justice? What does it mean to be a critically engaged scholar? How do we foster reciprocity with community members? Watch a recording of this learning circle here: https://youtu.be/aUbUkVY6E4o

Royalty Research Fund (RRF) Workshop January 2022

Proposal Development Consultant Dr. Kara Luckey presented this Royalty Research Fund Workshop. The RRF is open to faculty and staff across the UW system and provides one-year awards of up to $40,000 in order to support faculty and staff in generating preliminary findings, seeding scholarly and creative activities, and increasing competitiveness for future external funding. Watch the recording here:
https://youtu.be/bO2zCqGPmYQ

Finding Funding January 2022 Workshop

This workshop explored a variety of funding opportunities, sponsors, foundations, and tools at UW Tacoma that can help strengthen searches as you seek out funding to support your research, scholarship, and creative activities. Participants were shown methods to research potential funding sources and the group discussed next steps to further explore opportunities with specific individuals and/or offices at UW Tacoma. Watch here: https://youtu.be/lQPpT659lS4

Qual Quorum January 2022 Workshop

The winter meeting focused on qualitative data analysis (QDA) software. Watch here: https://youtu.be/HnmscOoRmsU

Qualitative Quorum November 2021 Workshop

Associate Professor Riki Thompson in collaboration with the Office of Research hosted this Qualitative Forum in hopes to revive the Qualitative Quorum research group from a few years ago. The mission of the group is to create a community of Qual researchers who would like to connect with a community on campus to talk about their research, share information about tools and resources, and support each other in learning and working through projects. The goal of this first meeting was to meet, learn about the types of projects people are working on, and the types of methods and tools people are using (and interested in possibly using in the future). Watch here:  https://youtu.be/X7RE90ZNLmY