SEFS Research Grants
Each year, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences students and faculty receive grants and awards to fund research and work. This page details the awards and grants received by SEFS since 2019:
2019
| Title | Principal Investigator | Sponsor | Start Date | Amount |
| Strengthening the Development of Timber Identification Technology to Address Illegal Logging of Mongolian Oak and Manchurian Ash in the Russian Far East | Indroneil Ganguly | World Wildlife Fund | 01/02/19 | $38,224 |
| Agricultural Lands at Risk of Conversion | Luke W. Rogers | Washington State Conservation Commission (WSCC) | 02/01/19 | $124,500 |
| Climate Refugia and Resilience Atlas: Identifying Priority Areas for Conserving Species of Concern in a Changing Climate | Josh Lawler | U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) | 03/11/19 | $87,899 |
| King County, WA and University of Washington Forestry Management Partnership | Van Kane | King County Department of National Resources and Parks | 03/22/19 | $44,664 |
| Crossing the divide: Inundation drives hotspots of carbon flux | David Butman | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | 03/26/19 | $250,180 |
| Assessing the Biodiversity and Epidemiology of Common, Understudied, Pacific Northwest Fungi | Patrick Tobin | Daniel E. Stuntz Memorial Foundation | 04/01/19 | $5,000 |
| Integrated vulnerability assessment for west coast fishing communities | Phillip Scott Levin | Pew Charitable Trusts | 04/19/19 | $319,891 |
| Forest health and risk assessment of the city of Bremerton watershed | Gregory Ettl | City of Bremerton | 05/07/19 | $9,230 |
| Environmental and economic assessment of simultaneous production of polylactic acid and lignin-based co-products | Indroneil Ganguly | U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) | 05/15/19 | $164,985 |
| Restoration costs for wet vegetation macrogroups | Jonathan Bakker | Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission | 05/21/19 | $24,683 |
| Phase II: Planning and Fuel Data for the Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment and Integration with the Western Wildfire Campaign | Ernesto Alvarado | U.S. Forest Service | 06/16/19 | $43,249 |
| Research to Improve Decision-Making Tools for Wildland Fire Air Quality Response and Fire Operations Programs | Ernesto Alvarado | U.S. Forest Service | 06/16/19 | $375,000 |
| Climate Change Applications and Implementation in National Forests | Gregory Ettl | U.S. Forest Service | 06/20/19 | $127,100 |
| Evaluation of digital aerial photogrammetry data to characterize forest conditions | Van Kane | U.S. Forest Service | 06/20/19 | $50,000 |
| Bullitt Foundation – Environmental Fellowship | Kristiina Vogt (Fellow: Maria Blancas) | Bullit Foundation | 06/25/19 | $50,000 |
| Transmission Project – Pre-monitoring, Outplanting and Seed Collection | Daniel Brown | Avista Corporation | 06/27/19 | $74,804 |
| USFS JVA Historical drivers of pretreatment conditions on the T3 watershed experiment | Bernard Bormann | U.S. Forest Service | 07/01/19 | $20,000 |
| Collaborative Research: Spatiotemporal Interactions Among Biotic Disturbance Agents, Biological Legacies, and Compensatory Responses: Consequences for Temperate Forest Resilience | Brian J. Harvey | National Science Foundation (NSF) | 07/15/19 | $324,215 |
| Workshop on Implications of climate change on the Pacific Northwest | L. Monika Moskal | Nanjing University | 08/18/19 | $49,925.68 |
| Evaluating camera traps as ground-based remote sensing networks linking snow and wildlife | Laura Prugh (Fellow: Catherine Breen) | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | 09/05/19 | $110,000 |
| The trickster and its craft: individual strategies of ravens scavenging from wolves | John Marzluff | National Geographic Society (NGS) | 09/05/19 | $25,900 |
| Advancing the Public Connections of the North Coast and Cascades Research Learning Center | Joshua Lawler | National Park Service | 09/15/19 | $88,298 |
| Fighting Fire With Four Hooves: Effects Of Carnivore-Herbivore Interactions On Fuel Loads And Fire Severity | Aaron Wirsing (Fellow: Lauren Satterfield) | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) | 09/25/19 | $45,000 |
| Maple Syrup Production from Big Leaf Maple Trees in the Riparian Zones of Washington’s Forests | Indroneil Ganguly | U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) | 09/30/19 | $499,709 |
| Microbial Community Characterization of Pulp Mill Wastewater Treatment | Heidi Gough | National Council for Air and Stream Improvement, Inc. (NCASI) | 10/31/19 | $22,00 |