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Read moreSEFS Professor Emeritus E. David Ford authored a book entitled “The Dynamics of Plant Growth” with Oxford University Press last month. The book integrates morphology, physiology, and development to describe the dynamic process that control plant growth.
Read moreBrowse recent mentions of SEFS researchers in the news. Have news to share? Send your updates to sefscomm@uw.edu.
Perry Acworth, UW Farm manager, was featured in a Seattle Times article about the value of vermiculture in gardening.
Read moreSEFS 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.
Read moreIn 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.
Read moreThe 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).
Read moreIn 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.
Read moreThanks 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.
Read moreAs 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.
Read moreRaised 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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