Registration is now open for the 2023 annual meeting of NWSA and AAAS-PD.  See the meeting web pages for lots of updated information.  Only $50 student registration, and $145 for members, which includes an evening social and two poster sessions, five plenary speakers, and fantastic workshops and field trip options.  We are accepting papers across of the sciences and intersection of disciplines.  We have 20-minute time slots for oral presentations and space for several dozen posters, presented on two afternoons. We are looking forward to seeing you at our first in-person meeting in several years.

Call for Abstracts for Oral & Poster Presentations at the upcoming

The Northwest Scientific Association (NWSA) annually awards grants of up to $750 for undergraduate (BA/BS) and up to $1,500 for graduate (MA/MS or PhD) proposals to support student research in the pure and applied sciences in natural resources or related fields.

The Northwest Scientific Association is recruiting applications for the position of Chief Editor of Northwest Science. Northwest Science is a quarterly journal publishing scientific studies representing natural and physical science research conducted in the Pacific Northwest, including Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, western Montana, northern California, and western Canada. Northwest Science has been in continuous publication since 1927 and provides an important outlet for scientific work relevant to the Pacific Northwest.

Save the date! The 2023 Annual Meeting will be held at Western Washington University on March 21-24. Workshops and the evening social event will be March 21, the plenaries and special and contributed sessions on March 22 & 23, and field trips on March 24.  The local host committee is co-chaired by Jon Riedel and Leo Bodensteiner.

Congratulations to our 2022 NWSA Student Grants winners. 

We love your NW science! <3

Due to the still rising number of CoVid-19 cases in many areas, the local local program committee (with Jeff Kane as local program chair) has decided an in-person meeting should not occur this year and has instead decided to move the meeting to a VIRTUAL format. Abstract submission and registration are open now.

Congratulations to our 2021 NWSA Student Grants winners.

Spring 2021 Biweekly Seminars

The Northwest Scientific Association is recruiting volunteers to serve as Associate Editors and Forum Editor of Northwest Science. Associate Editors (AEs) for the journal Northwest Science play a vital role in the peer review and publishing process.