Sarah B. Smith

For the past year, students from five universities across the United States have been working to ready payloads for launch to the International Space Station in late 2021 as a part of Student Payload Opportunity with Citizen Science (SPOCS). Student teams work together to conduct interdisciplinary design and implementation of scientific research conducted in microgravity, gain real-world experience, and make meaningful contributions to the scientific body of knowledge.

The story of the Regional Cabled Observatory - part of the NSF funded Ocean Observatories Initiative.

Documentary video produced for the University of Washington's School of Oceanography. Featuring interviews with Regional Cabled Array Director Deborah Kelley and Oceanographer John Delaney. Ocean Visions tells the story of scientists bringing the power of the internet into the ocean and into the future.

Seattle artist Mary Coss met scientist Roger Fuller at a “speed-dating” event put on by the Museum of Northwest Art a few years back to cultivate artist-scientist collaboration. The two clicked and formed a partnership that would lead to a series of immersive art shows centering around the themes of climate change, nature and ecology, and the effects of increasing salinity in the Skagit Estuary. Their goal was to effectively convey these issues, create bridges between the science and art communities and engage audience-citizens of the Pacific Northwest.

Documentary centering on conservation efforts of Tahoma Audubon Society. Includes interviews with founding members, highlighting their involvement in protecting the Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge and birds and wildlife in the South Puget Sound region.

"Celebrating 50 years of Tahoma Audubon Society - connecting people to nature and protecting birds and their habitats in the South Puget Sound region."

Promotional video for UW Oceanography. University of Washington oceanographer Deborah Kelley talks about a career in ocean science and what it's like to be out at sea.

Have you ever dreamed of spending a day in space? Join astronauts Shane Kimbrough, Megan McArthur, and Thomas Pesquet throughout their day living and working on the International Space Station. https://www.nasa.gov/mediacast/a-day-in-space

Through immersive, narrative storytelling, FieldSound explores the world of environmental science together with researchers at the University of Washington College of the Environment. Hosted and produced by Sarah Smith. https://environment.uw.edu/podcast

Houston, We Have a Podcast, June 25, 2021: Episode 201.

Guest host and co-producer of NASA’s Houston, We Have a Podcast episode 201, “Citizen Science on Station.” Student Payload Opportunity with Citizen Science selected five university student teams to design experiments to fly to the International Space Station. In this episode, team members share about their experience working together, incorporating a citizen component to their research, and why waxworms is space is such an exciting idea. Listen to the episode here.

Paw’d Defiance, June 1, 2020: Season 1, Episode 42.

Jeff Rice is the Managing Editor at the Puget Sound Institute at the University of Washington Tacoma. As a wildlife sound recordist, he serves as the program director for the Acoustic Atlas, one of the largest online archives of sounds of the American West. Rice has a background in journalism and public radio, as well as an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media. Rice has successfully found a way to marry his love for nature, storytelling and audio engineering in his work while also making an impact on the world around him.

Sounds and Music from this podcast were used with permission, courtesy of Jeff Rice.

A conversation with Oceanographer Nick Roden, a former golf pro turned scientist from Tasmania. Nick tells the story of his circuitous path to ocean science and living in near solitude for a year in one of the harshest, most remote places in the world - Antarctica. Podcast pilot episode. https://soundcloud.com/ss2019/podcastpilot

Paw’d Defiance, April 3, 2020, Season 1 Episode 35: Conversations with friends around the world at the start of the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020.

Raul lives in Madrid, Spain - a city that's been hit hard by the coronavirus. Nick and Leslie live in Bergen, Norway, a city that's a few weeks behind our timeline in the U.S. Anne lives in Adelaide, Australia and shares a story from her family's history of living through the flu pandemic in 1919. We wanted to share these conversations to inspire our UW Tacoma community to reconnect with their loved ones and find the silver lining in a time of pandemic, because we're all in this together.

Paw’d Defiance, May 15, 2020, Season 1, Episode 40: A follow up to the episode "Finding a Silver Lining In a Time of Pandemic," host Sarah Smith reconnects with friends overseas in Spain, Australia and Norway again to find out what's changed in their country, how they've adapted to life during a pandemic, and their perceptions of what's happening here in America.

A big thanks to Dr. Nick Roden, Leslie Ihnot, Raul Moran and Anne Chappel for their contributions to this podcast.

Paw’d Defiance, December 2, 2019, Season 1, Episode 25: The Asarco smelter shutdown more than 30 years ago but the plant's legacy is still being felt. Lead and arsenic emitted from the smelter's smokestack contaminated the soil and found its way into local lakes. UW Tacoma Associate Professor Jim Gawel joins us to discuss his work.

SPOCS is a NASA opportunity designed for Artemis Generation students enrolled in institutions of higher learning to design and build an experiment to fly to and from the International Space Station. Student teams work together to conduct interdisciplinary design and implementation of scientific research conducted in microgravity, gain real-world experience and make meaningful contributions to the scientific body of knowledge. Read the full article here.

While most of his days are spent unraveling the intricacies of weather patterns and dynamics, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences Dale Durran has embraced metal work to express his passion for the natural world. With a curiosity that reaches far beyond the confines of the laboratory, Durran crafts works that infuse the interplay of science and creativity into each unique piece. Read the article here.

Interview feature article for UW Tacoma. After serving a 20-year prison sentence, first-gen psychology student Theron Taylor is finding a new sense of belonging at UW Tacoma. Read the full article here.

UW Tacoma profile of student Ken Burkart, '20, who applied the discipline and determination of rock-climbing to his academic career and his research into aquatic chemistry. Read the full article here.

2018 promotional photos for musician Damien Jurado.

2019 nature-themed photo and video branding campaign for Tacoma, WA business, Yoga Wild.

2018 promotional photos for 2 Cedars Photography.

On-location in the Skagit Estuary, 2019.