A UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences-led project has been named part of the 2019 NASA Carbon Monitoring Program.
The project, “Teal Carbon Stakeholder-Driven Monitoring of Forested Wetland Carbon,” is led by L.
School of Environmental and Forest Sciences professor and ecologist Josh Lawler was interviewed for a story about a new Audubon Society report that warns of massive bird loss if global carbon emission are not stabilized.
Read moreThe Mt. Rainier Institute at Pack Forest recently hosted a group of students from Yakima and TV station KIMA did a short story on the visit.
The students received an in-depth look at the the natural and cultural resources of Mount Rainier National Park and Pack Forest during their visit.
Maria Blancas, a School of Environmental and Forest Sciences Ph.D. student and staff member of the UW Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, is the recipient of the 2019 Bullitt Environmental Prize for her work with immigrant farmworkers in Washington.
Read moreA research ecologist with the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences was awarded one of seven Climate Adaptation Leadership Awards for Natural Resources from the Association for Fish and Wildlife Agencies.
Read moreThe UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences are proud to announce the reappointment of the director of the Olympic National Resources Center (ONRC) and the hiring of the director of the University of Washington Botanic Gardens (UWBG).
Read moreMaple syrup production isn’t just for the upper east coast!
School of Environmental and Forest Sciences assistant professor Indroneil Ganguly proved this when he recently received nearly $500,000 from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to study maple syrup production from big leaf maple trees in the Riparian Zones of Washington’s forests.
Another School of Environmental and Forest Sciences student has been named as a recipient of a prestigious NASA fellowship that funds student research projects in the fields of Earth and planetary sciences and astrophysics.
Read moreTo the SEFS community:
A warm welcome back to autumn term on a cool, fall day! As we gather back in Seattle for a new academic year, I’m heartened by all the great stories of your research and learning adventures over the summer.
Sarah Converse, associate professor with the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences and leader of the Washington Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, earlier this month received the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Distinguished Service Award.
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