2025 Sustaining Our World Lecture featuring Hilary Franz – former WA State Commissioner of Public Lands
On April 10, 2025 SEFS will be welcoming the Former Washington State Commissioner of Public Lands to Kane Hall for its annual Sustaining Our World lecture series. This year’s topic is “Climate Change And Resilience: How Science And Solutions Can Bring Society Together.”
Climate change can be a great unifier, if we will let it.
Guest Lecture: Dr. Richard Vlosky – Cross-Laminated Timber in the U.S. South: Changes in Sector Influence and Sawmill Engagement Over the Past Five Years
Who: Please join us in welcoming Dr. Richard Vlosky from Louisiana State University. Dr. Vlosky is a UW alumni and is the Crosby Land & Resource Endowed Professor of Forest Sector Business Development at LSU.
Read more2023 Sustaining Our World Lecture: Forest Stewardship in the 21st Century
The UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences is proud to welcome Dr. Jerry Franklin, SEFS Emeritus Professor, as the 2023 Sustaining Our World Speaker.
Dr. Franklin will present “What the Old Forests Taught Us: Forest Stewardship in the 21st Century,” and a short Q&A will be held after the presentation.
National Geographic Fellow, Wildlife Ecologist Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant to present 2022 Sustaining Our World Lecture
The UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences is proud to welcome Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant, wildlife ecologist and conservation scientist, as the 2022 Sustaining Our World Speaker.
Dr. Wynn-Grant, who is also a National Geographic Fellow, will present “Ecology, Evolution, & Intersectional Identities: Reimagining Environmental Education,” and a short Q&A will be held after the presentation.
U.S. Forest Service’s Tania Ellersick to present SEFS Seminar on restoration and Tribal engagement
As a federal agency, the U.S. Forest Service has a responsibility to the 574 federally recognized Tribal Nations as crises related to climate change, biodiversity, the economy and health all disproportionately harm Native Americans who have faced genocide, ecocide and the breaking of the 368 Treaties, says Tania Ellersick, analyst with the U.S.
Read moreDr. Nathan Urban to present on quantifying climate change with UW Chemistry Department
The UW Chemistry Department is hosting a presentation on quantifying climate change.
Dr. Nathan Urban, leader of the Applied Mathematics group in the Computational Science Initiative at Brookhaven National Laboratory, on Long Island, New York, will present “Projecting the Future: Quantifying Uncertainties in How the Climate Will Change” on Nov.
U.S. Forest Service Researcher Malcolm North to talk pyrosilviculture to support resilient forests
Forest researchers and managers have long focused on studying how they can increase the resilience of forests, but as a management objective, the concept has been difficult to put into action.
Read moreSEFS Associate Professor Indroneil Ganguly to discuss how building with wood from sustainability harvested forests is a carbon-neutral alternative
The UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences own Associate Professor and Associate Director of CINTRAFOR Indroneil Ganguly will present this week’s SEFS Seminar. He will be discussing how building with sustainably harvested forests is a carbon-neutral alternative to typical building development.
Read moreLast SEFS Seminar of the quarter will ask, “Do interactions among different fungal guilds control carbon cycling in forest soils?”
The last SEFS Seminar of Spring Quarter 2021 will be on carbon cycling in forest soils.
Peter Kennedy, a mycologist and associate professor in the University of Minnesota’s Department of Plant and Microbial Biology” will present, “Do interactions among different fungal guilds control carbon cycling in forest soils?” at 3:30 p.m.
2021 SEFS Year-End Awards winners announced
Every spring, the UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences recognizes a number of people within the SEFS community for their efforts over the previous year. Given the difficulties of the past year and a half, the SEFS Awards Committee opted to award two people per award.
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