For nine weeks this summer five SEFS undergraduate students-Hannah Carbajal, Shelby Felthoven, Mia, Mata, Lark Murphy, and Emily Rabus took part in this year’s Pack Forest Summer crew gaining field training in research and sustainable forest management!
Read moreLast month, researchers at the Olympic Natural Resources Center (ONRC) launched a self-powered autonomous surface vehicle (ASV), called the Lightfish, off the coast of Washington’s Olympic Peninsula to improve our understanding and monitoring of harmful algal blooms (HAB) and resulting toxins.
Read moreSEFS alumnus Chang Dou (SEFS/BSE MS ’13, Ph.D. ’17) was selected as one of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) 35 under 35. This award, presented every three years, honors exceptional AIChE members under the age of 35 who have made significant contributions to the field of Chemical Engineering and to AIChE.
Read moreBrowse recent mentions of SEFS researchers in the news. Have news to share? Send your updates to sefscomm@uw.edu.
Wendy Gibble, associate director of the University of Washington Botanic Gardens, was featured in a FOX 13 article about climate impacts to wildflowers at Mount Rainier.
Read moreWhat’s happening inside a crow’s brain when it thinks about using a tool? Researchers at the University of Washington used to peer inside the brains of crows as they were challenged with a difficult task that required stone tools to solve.
Read moreSEFS affiliate associate professor and UW alumna Nalini Nadkarni was appointed an Explorer at Large by the National Geographic Society this month for her work as a distinguished forest canopy researcher.
Read moreDespite increasing wildfire activity over the last few decades, contemporary fire years burn less than a quarter of the area burned on average historically. A recent study led by SEFS affiliate faculty members and Washington Department of Natural Resources forest ecologists Dan Donato and Josh Halofsky, and SEFS associate professor Brian Harvey, compared fire activity between 1985 and 2020 to historical fire amounts and severities.
Read moreGet to know SEFS staff! This series provides an opportunity to find out more about SEFS staff members — what they do in their daily job and how they spend their time outside the office.
Read moreTwelve students in the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences have been awarded scholarship funding for the 2023-24 academic year from the College of the Environment, including ten undergraduate and two graduate students.
Read moreSEFS continued a longstanding tradition this week, hosting our annual salmon barbeque in the Anderson Hall Courtyard! Throughout the evening, we hosted over 300 SEFS students, faculty, staff, friends, and family, serving up fresh salmon, corn, and more.
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