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Graduate Student Symposium: Save the Date!
The date is set—Friday, March 8, 2013—and final details are coming together for the 10th Annual Graduate Student Symposium at the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences (SEFS)!
Held in the Forest Club Room, the annual symposium is a day dedicated to graduate students and their research.
SEFS Seminar Series: Week 4 Preview
A major federal effort quantifying the water quality impacts of cropland conservation practice investments was recently completed for the entire Mississippi-Atchafalaya River Basin (MARB). Additional scenarios of watershed-level targeted conservation practice investments were modeled, and the costs of their implementation were estimated.
Read moreKorena Mafune Receives Dean’s Award for Undergraduate Innovation
On December 18, 2012, Korena Mafune was officially named the very first recipient of the Dean’s Award for Undergraduate Innovation. Selected by the University of Washington College of the Environment Scholarship Committee, Mafune will receive $1,000 for research materials and supplies, and a $1,500 scholarship for tuition and fees, for a $2,500 total award.
Read moreUsing Remote Sensing to Understand Climate Change Effects on Wetland Ecosystems
Semi-arid wetlands might sound like an oxymoron—until you are wading into one surrounded by snow (see right).
Field verifying the condition of such wetlands in the sage-shrub steppe of Douglas County, Wash., is part of a research project led by Meghan Halabisky of Professor Monika Moskal’s Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis Lab (RSGAL).
SEFS Seminar Series: Week 3 Preview
China’s Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) saw a near tripling of population, from about 150 million to more than 400 million. There were no significant changes in technology or forms of energy used, but only more intensive use of existing technology and energy sources.
Read moreAlumni Spotlight: Kristen McIvor
Forget putting a chicken in every pot, or a car in every backyard. Kristen McIvor has a much grander, greener and more sustainable vision for Tacoma: “I would like there to be a garden in every neighborhood that wants one.”
McIvor, who grew up in Kirkland and Spokane, first got involved in community gardening in Tacoma as a Ph.D student with the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences (SEFS).
SEFS Seminar Series: Week 2 Preview
As we all know, trees grow really tall in the Pacific Northwest. But, though we have studied the aboveground world of forests intensely, much less is known about the “hidden half” of forests—the soil.
Read moreProfessor Bob Edmonds: A World Apart
“Never a dull day, never boring,” says Bob Edmonds—that’s the life of a professor.
That certainly seems true of Edmonds’ career, which has spanned an incredible spectrum of fields within the forestry community.
SEFS Seminar Series: Week 1 Preview
Tomorrow afternoon, SEFS Director Tom DeLuca will kick off the Seminar Series (SEFS 550F) with the opening discussion topic, “Nitrogen dynamics in boreal ecosystems.”
Wildfires are a natural disturbance in boreal forest ecosystems.
Katrina Mendrey Awarded AWRA Fellowship
Katrina Mendrey, a full-time master’s student with the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences (SEFS), has just been awarded a $2,000 fellowship through the Washington Section of the American Water Resources Association (AWRA).
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