Graduate Academic Advisors

Graduate Program Coordinator/Internship Advisor

ES 545B
(360) 650-3646
Ed.Weber@wwu.edu
You can schedule an appointment with Ed here

Ed fields questions about all graduate program applications, admission requirements, graduate plans of study, thesis/field project requirements, teaching assistantships, graduate student funding, and all other Master's program topics for all College of the Environment Master's Programs. Ed is also the Internship Advisor for the College of the Environment for both Graduates and Undergraduates. Contact Ed by phone or email, or stop by his office near the College of the Environment College dean's suite in ES 545 on floor 05 (halfway between floors 4 and 5).

Graduate Advisor for Environmental Science and Marine and Estuarine Science

ES 445
(360) 650-3986
sobocik@wwu.edu

As Graduate Advisor for Environmental Sciences and Marine and Estuarine Science, Dr. Sobocinski is available to talk with current and prospective graduate students about how to find success in our program. Additionally, she mentors graduate students working on projects related to salmon survival in marine ecosystems, interactions between fish and their prey and competitors, quantitatively assessing the cumulative effects of estuarine restoration for salmon, and marine ecology related to anthropogenic change within the Salish Sea and beyond. 

Graduate Advisor for Urban Planning and Environmental Sustainability

AH 217
(360) 650-6532
troy.abel@wwu.edu

Dr. Abel is a professor of Environmental Policy in the Department of Urban and Environmental Planning and Policy whose teaching and research interests focus on the dynamic tensions of environmental science and democratic politics in a variety of arenas.

Graduate Advisor for Environmental Studies

AH 228
(360) 650-2896 
neffm3@wwu.edu

Dr. Neff's research interests include understanding and improving the policies governing science to better serve the public interest, the use and uptake of scientific information in formal and informal environmental decision making, and cultural self-sorting into disciplines and programs at universities.