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Professor Tobin Awarded Powell Grant to Study Insect Invasiveness
Last month, Professor Patrick Tobin and a team of researchers were awarded an innovative grant from the John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis and Synthesis in Fort Collins, Colo.: “Predicting the next high-impact insect invasion: Elucidating traits and factors determining the risk of introduced herbivorous insects on North American native plants.”
Powell grants are somewhat unique in that they don’t fund new data collection and research, but rather “Working Groups” that mine and synthesize existing data sets to discover overarching trends and insights.
Director’s Message: Autumn 2015 (The Starcraft Enterprise)
Autumn is such a special time of year, and the first weeks of the season always remind me of my years as a professor of forest soils at the University of Montana.
Read morePhotography Exhibition: Views from the Northwoods
This October, for the second year in a row, John Tylczak has generously offered to loan us 10 images from his broader collection, Views from the Northwoods: 1983-1995, for a month-long photography exhibition in the Forest Club Room!
Read moreSEFS Involved in Four Major NASA Grants
As part of its Terrestrial Ecology Program, NASA recently launched the Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE). It’s a major field campaign in Alaska and western Canada—starting this year, and lasting 8 to 10 years—with the goal of better understanding the vulnerability and resilience of ecosystems and society to a changing climate in Arctic and boreal regions.
Read moreAlumni Spotlight: Greg Lambert
by Karl Wirsing/SEFS
If you’ve never heard the expression that 90 is the new 40, then you’ve never met Greg Lambert.
Lambert, who celebrated his 90th birthday last May, spent 26 years as a pilot with the U.S.
Tribal Interns Assist Bear Study in Alaska
Based at the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences (SAFS), the Alaska Salmon Program conducts research on ecology, biocomplexity, fisheries management and other studies relating to Alaska salmon and their environment.
Read moreNew Faculty Intro: Laura Prugh
This past spring, we were thrilled to hire two new wildlife faculty members, Professors Beth Gardner and Laura Prugh. Though Gardner won’t be joining us until spring 2016, Prugh has already arrived in Seattle and is getting a jump on organizing her research program and lab for the fall.
Read moreProfessor Ernesto Alvarado Presents Paper at Cuba Conference
Earlier this month, Professor Ernesto Alvarado spent two weeks in Havana, Cuba, as part of a team from the U.S. Forest Service, and he co-presented a paper on wildfires and climate change at the X International Convention on Environment and Development, held July 6 to 10.
Read moreSEFS to Host Annual Biofuels Meeting
Coming up this September, the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences (SEFS) will be hosting the annual meeting of the Advanced Hardwood Biofuels Northwest (AHB) research consortium.
Led by SEFS, AHB is comprised of university and industry partners across the Pacific Northwest, and the consortium is working to prepare Washington, Oregon, Northern California and Northern Idaho for a sustainable hardwood bioproducts and biofuels industry.
UW Farm Opens Produce Stand!
Starting this Friday, July 24, the UW Farm would like to announce the opening of a farm produce stand, and they’re inviting you to come support their volunteer-driven agricultural enterprise! Enjoy seasonal, sustainably sourced, picked-that-morning fresh produce grown just two miles away, along with great music, refreshments and delicious seasonal recipe ideas.
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