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New Faculty Intro: Patrick Tobin
With three new faculty members joining SEFS this fall—Professors David Butman, Peter Kahn and Patrick Tobin—we’re excited to introduce our new colleagues and welcome them to the community!
First up for introductions is Tobin, who joins us as an assistant professor after spending more than 11 years with the U.S.
Undergrad Spotlight: Maria Gamman
“I’ve always felt that whatever you do without getting paid on your own time, that’s what you should try to do for your job,” says Maria Gamman, who is heading into her final quarter at the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences (SEFS).
Read moreVideo: Cultivating Hybrid Poplars for Biofuel Production
Advanced Hardwood Biofuels Northwest (AHB), a consortium of Pacific Northwest university and industry partners led by the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, has put together a series of short videos to help explain current research into the conversion of hybrid poplars into biofuels and other bioproducts.
Read moreUW Farm Opens Weekly Produce Stand Along Burke-Gilman Trail
Beginning this Friday, August 29, the UW Farm will be partnering with UW Transportation Services to set up a weekly farm stand on the Burke-Gilman Trail from 3 to 5:30 p.m.
Read moreJohn Tylczak: The Northwoods Photographic Project
For the month of October, we are very pleased to feature an exhibition of photographs by John Tylczak in the Forest Club Room! Tylczak (pronounced tile-zack) grew up in Shelton, Wash., where four generations of his family have lived since 1885; his grandfather, in fact, was the executor of Agnes Anderson’s estate.
Read moreSEFS Students Present Forest Stewardship Plan to King County
This past spring, 14 SEFS students had the unique opportunity to partner with King County to write a forest stewardship plan for the 645-acre Black Diamond Natural Area, south of Seattle near Maple Valley.
Read moreRecord Salmon Surge in Alaska
Every year, hundreds of millions of salmon swim from the Pacific Ocean into streams and rivers up and down the West Coast from California to Alaska. They make their way, with remarkable precision and determination, to spawn in the very grounds where they were born.
Read moreDavid G. Briggs: 1943-2014
We were extremely sad to learn last week that a wonderful member of the SEFS family, Professor Emeritus David Briggs, passed away at his home on Saturday, July 26.
Briggs was born on July 3, 1943, in North Brookfield, Mass.
Steven D. Stinson: 1961-2014
We were deeply saddened to learn last week that one of our alumni and great friends, Steve Stinson, passed away on Wednesday, July 16, after a two-year battle with cancer.
Born December 10, 1961, Stinson grew up working on his family’s Cowlitz Ridge Tree Farm in Toledo, Wash., and was a tireless advocate for forestry.
Alumni (and Staff) Spotlight: Wendy Gibble
While volunteering with the Falcon Research Group in the San Juan Islands a number of years ago, Wendy Gibble remembers repelling down a cliff to reach a peregrine falcon nest. She’d been taking part in a raptor study for several years, and her job was to put bands on the young birds.
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