Dr. Harold Tukey, Jr., UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences emeritus professor, founding director of the Center for Urban Horticulture and former director of the Washington Park Arboretum is being remembered for his horticultural contributions to the University, Seattle and beyond.
Read moreAs the Fall 2020 Quarter comes to a close, SEFS would like to congratulate the undergraduate and graduate students who have completed important milestones.
Graduate Students
Completed Final Exam (received Ph.D.)
Martin Bagaram
Catherine Kuhn
Zhengxin Lang
Carolyn Rachel Shores
Completed General Exam (Ph.D.
Read moreRecently published research from the UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has shown that microbes taken from trees that grow beside mountain-fed streams in Washington could make phosphorus trapped in soil more accessible to agricultural crops.
Read moreIt’s a long-discussed debate: Should you get a real or fake tree for this holiday season?
UW School of Environment and Forest Sciences research professor and soils expert Sally Brown weighed in recently.
Researchers at the Olympic Natural Resources Center (ONRC), within UW’s School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, are part of a group that were recently awarded $1 million grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to study harmful algal blooms with a self-driving vehicle that skims the surface of the water.
Read moreUW College of the Environment Dean and School of Environmental and Forest Science alumna Lisa Graumlich was named president-elect of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) starting Jan. 1.
After two years in this role, Graumlich will begin a two-year term as president of the AGU board beginning in 2023.
Two members of the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences community will be serving on the Washington Department of Natural Resources’ (DNR) Sustainable Harvest Technical Advisory Committee.
Associate Professor Sándor Tóth and Ph.D.
The Washington Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit (WACFWRU) is hiring a full-time Wildlife Human Dimensions Scientist who will also hold the position of assistant or associate professor without tenure at the UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences.
Read moreIf you’ve ever thought about working in the forestry and environmental field, but want to be your own boss, there’s a course for you!
ESRM 490D/SEFS590D: Forestry and Environmental Consulting is available for two credits this Winter Quarter 2021.
Congratulations to Hemalatha Velappan, a M.S. student at SEFS, who won first prize for her poster presentation at the American Center for Life Cycle Assessment (ACLCA).
The presentation was Velappan’s first poster presentation at an international conference, and receiving the top award at such a high level is truly noteworthy.