Dr. Dittbrenner joined SEFS this fall as the newest member of our teaching faculty, making his way back to the Pacific Northwest and his alma mater. Most recently Dr. Dittbrenner was at Northeastern University in Boston where he taught courses in stream ecology, wetland ecology, ecosystem management, environmental science and sustainability.
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SEFS Research Scientist and Marine Science Director at the Olympic Natural Resource Center, Dr. Vera Trainer, has been awarded the Yasumoto Lifetime Achievement Award. Every two years, the International Society for the Study of Harmful Algae recognizes an individual with a long, outstanding record of contribution to harmful algal research.
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Alicia Sullivan is a Product Manager at Google for Earth Engine. She graduated with her Masters of Science in Forest Resources in 2008 and while she was here she was a member of the Precision Forestry Cooperative (PFC).
Read moreIn October, the College of the Environment announced the recipients of this year’s Dean’s Office Scholarships. Each year the competition for these funds increases as more interested students apply. Being awarded a Dean’s Office Scholarship is an honorable achievement.
Read moreThe Sustainable Bioresource Systems Engineering (SBSE) major launched Fall Quarter 2025. The major will give graduates the knowledge and tools to be successful process engineers, especially with processes that have biomass feedstocks, and have a solid foundation in the fundamentals of sustainability.
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The SEFS community is saddened to share the passing of a dear friend and College of Forestry alumnus Alan Carter Randall. He was 94. Randall was one of twelve graduates of the College of Forestry in 1957.
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The beginning of the 2025-26 academic year is here and I hope you made the most of the summer season, whatever your plans for it might have been. I know many of our faculty members and students spent their summer months in the field and in the lab, locally and abroad, partnering on research that informs how to sustainably manage natural resources, adapt to a changing climate, develop and apply new technologies for resource management and use, and inform fair policies and practices.
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This is the third donor spotlight in a series. This series of stories reveals the impact that donors have on students, faculty and research here at the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences and more broadly at the College of the Environment.
Read moreA conservation‐planning paradigm for a changing climate might be the answer. It’s called Whole-Earth.
New research from Prof. Josh Lawler, colleagues with the U.S. National Park Service and the South African National Parks, calls for a new conservation strategy.
Laurel James is the Director of Programs at the Native American Fish & Wildlife Society in Colorado while concurrently pursuing her iPhD from SEFS and the Department of Anthropology here at the University of Washington.
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