SEFS assistant professor Francisca Santana is co-PI on a grant from the Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to support Tribal climate adaptation efforts in southeastern Louisiana.
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In a warming climate, changing snow conditions and consistency could play a notable role in how predators hunt prey. SEFS associate professor Laura Prugh is working with UW professor of civil and environmental engineering Jessica Lundquist to measure snow properties that led to a “danger zone,” where prey would sink but predators would not.
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The Type 3 (T3) watershed experiment began in 2018, out of a partnership between the Olympic Natural Resource Center (ONRC) led mainly by director Bernard Bormann and SEFS affiliate professor, Teodora Minkova with the Washington Department of Natural Resources (WA DNR).
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In his time at UW, Guang Zheng was the first PhD student in SEFS Professor L. Monika Moskal’s Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis Laboratory. Last year, Zheng returned as a visiting professor from Nanjing University to work with Moskal on using a space-born lidar sensor, the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI), on the International Space Station to produce global maps of building heights.
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Thanks to all who came out to celebrate with us at our annual holiday party and gingerbread competition! It was wonderful to see our community come together to celebrate another successful quarter.
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As a busy and successful quarter draws to a close, the SEFS community gathered again this month for our annual holiday party, a tradition reaching back decades. Seeing many new and returning faces in the Forest Club room, marveling at the ingenuity of gingerbread creations for our second annual SEFS Gingerbread Competition, and reflecting on the last few months together was a welcome reminder of the passionate and creative community we have here at SEFS.
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Raised in the small logging town of Aberdeen, Washington, SEFS alumnus Ed Draper was aware of the variable nature of the forest products industry from a young age. “Both my parents told me to not work in the forest products industry given the nature of it, especially when I was growing up,” said Draper.
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SEFS associate professor Greg Bratman was featured on the annual Highly Cited Researchers 2023 list from Clarivate, alongside over 40 UW researchers who received the honor this year.
Bratman was listed in the “cross-field impact” category, which recognizes researchers who focus on interdisciplinary work and contribute multiple highly cited papers in several different fields.
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SEFS Professor Patrick Tobin was featured in an AP News article about the impacts of climate change on Pacific Northwest forests.
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Research by SEFS alumna Angela Klock and SEFS emeritus faculty members Kristiina and Daniel Vogt was highlighted as contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goal tackling global hunger, food security, nutrition and sustainable agriculture.
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