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Partnership Highlight: Urban@UW partners with WRWW to strengthen green stormwater infrastructure in Kent, WA
SEFS Associate Professor, Heidi Gough and Assistant Professor Sameer Shah have been selected for the second installment of the Research to Action Collaboratory (RAC) cohort. They will be joined by Amy Kuhl, Resiliency Program Manager of World Relief Western Washington and Lucas McClish, WRWW’s Community Garden Coordinator.
Read moreSEFS Research Scientist, Dr. Susan Prichard, co-leads report: Braiding Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science for resilient forests
Dr. Susan J. Prichard, a fire ecologist and SEFS Research Scientist co-led a report team that looks at “braiding” Indigenous and Western knowledge of forest adaptation strategies to combat climate change.
Read moreSEFS Associate Professor, Laura Prugh, pens Guest Essay for New York Times
SEFS Associate Professor, Dr. Laura Prugh, writes that ditching daylight savings, as many are in favor of, would be a mistake.
Prugh writes, “It’s not just that our afternoons and evenings would be shrouded in more darkness, which often comes with higher crime, more vehicle collisions and fewer opportunities to enjoy the outdoors after work or school.
Read moreSEFS Students win big at 2024 Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge
Photos | Courtesy of Charles Trillingham
Students competing in this year’s Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge showed up in a big way. Taking home the $15,000 Grand Prize was AgroFilms, a team of graduate and undergraduate students from the UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences Bioresource Science and Engineering program as well as a technology management MBA student.
SEFS in the News: March, 2024
Browse recent mentions of SEFS researchers in the news. Have news to share? Send your updates to sefscomm@uw.edu.
SEFS PhD student, Autum Maust, shares how UW researchers are monitoring Yoshino cherry trees on campus in an effort to predict peak bloom time.
Read moreProgram Spotlight: Mount Rainier Institute
An Interview with Director John Hayes
We had the opportunity to speak with MRI Director John Hayes about the importance of outdoor, immersive experiences and what they mean for the future of ecological literacy and environmental stewardship.
SEFS researchers predict peak cherry tree bloom time
Spring at the University of Washington is a much anticipated season. This week all 29 Yoshino cherry trees in the quad are in peak bloom and the campus is energized with visitors.
Read moreSEFS in the News: February, 2024
Browse recent mentions of SEFS researchers in the news. Have news to share? Send your updates to sefscomm@uw.edu.
Ernesto Alvarado, research associate professor at the University of Washington’s School of Environmental and Forest Sciences comments on the Amazon’s crucial water cycle and its risk of collapse in NBC News.
Read moreA message from Dan Brown, SEFS Director: Spring 2024
As Winter quarter draws to a close and the days get longer, I reflect with pride on our numerous successes in SEFS’ research, teaching, and engagement activities. This issue of our newsletter highlights some important research successes: in identifying and mapping stored carbon in forested wetlands, and in understanding the recovery of west-side forests after fire.
Read morePartnership Highlight: Washington Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
Together with the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, SEFS hosts the Washington Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit (WACFWRU), part of a national network of research cooperatives founded to bring federal resources to bear on state wildlife management issues.
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