SEFS graduate students and staff were recently awarded fellowships through the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships Program (NSF GRFP). Awardees Turtle May, a graduate student in SEFS Research Associate Professor Ernesto Alvarado’s lab, and Lara Volski, a graduate student in SEFS Assistant Professor Alex McInturff’s lab participated in a UW NSF GRFP application workshop last fall.
Read moreMary Ellen Moody Denman passed away Tuesday, March 21, 2023, at 94 years old. Alongside her husband William “Dick” Denman, who passed in 2007, the Denman’s were significant contributors to the SEFS faculty and have left a lasting legacy in the form of three faculty endowments and a student excellence fund.
Read moreSEFS Professor Brian Harvey and students in his lab recently published papers on wildfire and forest management, including how fire potential and carbon storage after beetle outbreaks can be changed by forest management decades prior (Ecosystems), how forest resilience is affected by the combination of wildfire severity and post-fire climate conditions across the western US (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), and how wildfire severity in areas experiencing more than one fire in recent decades are reshaping forest landscapes and forest resilience across the northwest US (Global Ecology and Biogeography).
Read moreSEFS Assistant Professor Gregory Bratman is an author on a recent report, “Forests and Trees for Human Health: Pathways, Impacts, Challenges and Response Options,” published by Global Forest Expert Panels (GFEP) Program of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations.
Read moreThe UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences is proud to welcome Dr. Jerry Franklin, SEFS Emeritus Professor, as the 2023 Sustaining Our World Speaker.
Dr. Franklin will present “What the Old Forests Taught Us: Forest Stewardship in the 21st Century,” and a short Q&A will be held after the presentation.
The arrival of spring on the University of Washington campus can be marked by the annual celebration of cherry blossoms, bringing visitors and locals alike to admire the display of color on the Quad.
Read moreFrom soil to state policy, SEFS alumnus Jonathan Chen has had a hand in elevating environmental justice concerns for communities in Washington. Chen graduated from UW in June, 2021 with a Master of Science degree.
Read moreSitting here in Anderson Hall at the end of my sixth Winter quarter at UW, I have an opportunity to reflect with gratitude and humility on the opportunity I’ve been given to serve another term as director of SEFS.
Read moreSEFS Assistant Professor Alex McInturff is a co-author on a new study in Nature Climate Change, highlighting increasing human-wildlife conflict in a warming world. Led by the University of Washington’s Center for Ecosystem Sentinels, the paper found that climate shifts can drive conflicts by altering animal habitats across terrestrial, marine, and freshwater ecosystems, and involved mammals, reptiles, birds, fish and even invertebrates.
Read moreUW was awarded a $1.2 million grant from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for a community-based effort to improve water and soil testing programs along the Duwamish River, which has suffered decades of industrial contamination.
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