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Highlights from NSWA events, tours, and field tripsSummer Science Salon
July 31, 2026 at 6:00pm at a private rooftop in the Roosevelt neighborhood Join us for a Salish Sea-themed Science Salon on Megan Ewald's Roosevelt rooftop. Discuss the latest in Pacific Northwest marine science while sampling locally sourced shellfish and sipping...
July Happy Hour: Paint ‘n Sip Returns
July 30, 2026 at 5:30pm at Stoup Brewing Co on Capitol Hill Back by popular demand, NSWA is bringing back Emmy-nominated illustrator Levi Hastings for an evening of painting (and sipping). We'll build on basic watercolor technique as he introduces us to some...
Book Launch: Lost in Curiosity with Roberta Kwok
July 21 at 7:00pm at Third Place Books, Ravenna NSWA member and award-winning journalist Roberta Kwok visits Third Place Books Ravenna to launch her book, Lost in Curiosity: Field Notes from Scientists' Adventures into the Unknown. The real story of science isn't a...
Book Talk: Animal Sex with Perrin Roosevelt Ireland
July 9, 2026 at 7:30pm Town Hall Seattle In an illustrated guide full of watercolor comics, Poking the Squid, by Perrin Roosevelt Ireland, illustrates the splendid diversity of nature’s eroticism. Featuring pregnant seahorse dads, spider oral sex, and the four-headed...
Explore the American Arctic with Lynda Mapes
Join NSWA Vice President and veteran journalist Mapes alongside longtime Arctic defenders for a multifaceted presentation on the wonder of public lands along the Arctic Circle in Alaska and the risks they face under a new agenda under the Trump administration. The...
The Ocean’s Menagerie Book Talk with Drew Harvell
The NSWA Book Club book talk has been rescheduled for May 19. We are excited to have Drew Harvell, a marine ecologist who researches ocean biodiversity and ocean health, specializing in diseases in marine ecosystems. Her latest book The Ocean's Menagerie: How Earth's...
NSWA 2026 Holiday Party at the Seattle Aquarium!
January 14th: Save the date, for NSWA’s 2026 holiday party three-peat at the Seattle Aquarium! Tickets open now!
November Happy Hour-Chuck’s Hop Shop in Seward Park
November 2025 Happy Hour at Chuck’s Hop Shop in Seward Park, Friday Nov. 21, 2025, 5:30-7:00
October Happy Hour
NSWA board member Lynda Mapes will host happy hour at Halcyon Brewing Company at 8564 Greenwood Ave N in Seattle on Oct. 24th at 5:30pm. Come to grab a pint, leave with new science writer friends!
NSWA 2025 Holiday Party: Explore Seattle Aquarium’s New Ocean Pavilion!
January 16th: Save the date, NSWA’s 2025 holiday party will explore the Seattle Aquarium’s new Ocean Pavilion! Ticket open now!
Oct. 2: Bloomfield’s “Science v. Story”
The October Book Club will feature Emma Frances Bloomfield’s book "Science v. Story", dissects storytelling and weaves narrative webs to help science writers (and other communicators) build narrative strategies. She analyzes four scientific controversies—climate...
UPDATE! Oct 3: Book Talk Happy Hour — What If We Get It Right?
Author Ayana Elizabeth Johnson will talk about her newest book, What If We Get It Right?, which explores positive visions of our climate future and how we might get there. Drinks after!
Sept 11: Heisman’s “Flight Paths”
The September Book Club will feature Rebecca Heisman’s book “Flight Paths
How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration”.
Sept 6: Science Trivia Night!
NSWA is hosting a hybrid online/in-person science trivia night on in Seattle on Friday, September 6th at 6:30 p.m. PT.
August 8: Nijhuis’ “Beloved Beasts”
The August Book Club will feature Michelle Nijhuis’ Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction.