Experts at the University of Washington
Below is a list of experts on various topics at the UW. If you don’t see the topic you’re looking for, please contact someone on our staff. For medical experts, see UW Medicine Newsroom.
We’re always looking to expand our experts lists. UW researchers who want to be added to our directory for the news media can contact the public information officer for their area of expertise.
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CLIMATE & WEATHER | ENVIRONMENT | MEDICINE | PUBLIC HEALTH | PUBLIC POLICY & POLITICS | SOCIAL ISSUES | SPACE & AERONAUTICS | TECH | WORLD ISSUES
CLIMATE & WEATHER
- Climate change: Regional and global climate change.
- Flooding and landslides: Causes and consequences of flooding and landslides.
- Weather: Pacific Northwest weather trends and global weather phenomena.
ENVIRONMENT
- Clean energy: Renewable energy, solar cells, energy storage and integration, smart grid, power system security, tidal energy, less-polluting transportation.
- Earthquakes: Seismology, geology, engineering, and disaster preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation policy.
- Flooding and landslides: Causes and consequences of flooding and landslides.
- Harmful algal blooms: Research and monitoring for harmful algal blooms.
- Infrastructure: Engineering and other experts, including urban transportation planning and policy, tolls, intelligent transportation systems, and high-performance building systems and environmental life cycle assessment of buildings.
- The Arctic and oil: Arctic Ocean and Chukchi Sea, Arctic drilling, science of oil spills, preparedness, port operations, freight transportation.
- Urban water quality and lead contamination: Urban water issues, lead, water infrastructure, public health and statistical methods for testing water.
- Whales: Killer whales (orcas), ecology, bioacoustics, bowhead whales, beluga whales, Arctic Ocean.
- Wildfires: Forest and fire ecology, climate change, wildfire smoke, fire conditions.
MEDICINE
Please contact UW Medicine Newsroom for experts in medicine.
PUBLIC HEALTH
- Harmful algal blooms: Research and monitoring for harmful algal blooms.
- Marijuana: Use and abuse, legalization, historical perspective, assessing addictive behaviors, medicinal properties.
- Urban water quality and lead contamination: Urban water issues, lead, water infrastructure, public health and statistical methods for testing water.
- Wildfires: Forest and fire ecology, climate change, wildfire smoke, fire conditions.
PUBLIC POLICY & POLITICS
- Economics: Political economy, social welfare, health care policy, government health care systems, poverty and economic disparities, minimum wage
- Immigration: Law, policy, immigrants’ rights and provision of legal services, relative powers of Congress and the President, criminalization of immigrants.
- Infrastructure: Engineering and other experts, including urban transportation planning and policy, tolls, intelligent transportation systems, and high-performance building systems and environmental life cycle assessment of buildings.
- Marijuana: Use and abuse, legalization, historical perspective, assessing addictive behaviors, medicinal properties.
- Politics and elections: Historic perspective, tea party, civil rights, racial and ethnic minorities, faith and politics, media and politics, economy and taxes, labor economics and social issues, public opinion and public policy.
- The Arctic and oil: Arctic Ocean and Chukchi Sea, Arctic drilling, science of oil spills, preparedness, port operations, freight transportation.
- Urban water quality and lead contamination: Urban water issues, lead, water infrastructure, public health and statistical methods for testing water.
- Social issues: Encompassing a variety of topics, from human thought and behavior to race, ethnicity, identity and orientation.
SPACE & AERONAUTICS
Coming soon!
TECH
- Big data: Machine learning, large datasets, data-intensive discovery, data visualization.
- Clean energy: Renewable energy, solar cells, energy storage and integration, smart grid, power system security, tidal energy, less-polluting transportation.
- Infrastructure: Engineering and other experts, including urban transportation planning and policy, tolls, intelligent transportation systems, and high-performance building systems and environmental life cycle assessment of buildings.
WORLD ISSUES
- Immigration: Law, policy, immigrants’ rights and provision of legal services, relative powers of Congress and the President, criminalization of immigrants, political ramifications of President Obama’s Nov. 20, 2014 speech.
- Marijuana: Use and abuse, legalization, historical perspective, assessing addictive behaviors, medicinal properties.
- Terrorism: Political extremism, ethnic and religious conflict, tyrannical governments, U.S. foreign policy, and the role of the Internet.
- The Middle East: History of the Middle East, modern-day conflict, state-society relationships, Islamic and constitutional law, and U.S. foreign policy in the region.