SEFS Emeritus professor, mentor, and friend Bruce Lippke passed away on Tuesday, February 14th. He left peacefully surrounded by his family at 89 years old.
Bruce was a long-time researcher on the role of wood products in economic and environmental sustainability.
As a local and international leader in the field, Dr. Trainer was awarded the Seattle Aquarium Conservation Research Award this month for her work on understanding harmful algal blooms (HABs): proliferations of algae that cause environmental and economic damage.
Read moreSEFS Emeritus Professor Dr. Kristiina Vogt and UW colleagues Dr. Samantha De Abreu and Dr. Maria Blancas are working to understand how using holistic storytelling practices common among Indigenous communities could improve environmental science education.
Read moreElusive and efficient ambush hunters, cougars are a natural predator of deer. In fact, research suggests they may be an effective tool in managing deer overpopulation and reducing collisions with wildlife.
Read moreThis new series will provide 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 moreThe University of Washington’s Olympic Natural Resources Center (ONRC) is happy to announce that Dr. Vera Trainer has joined the team as the research lead for the ONRC marine science program and director of the Olympic Region Harmful Algal Bloom (ORHAB) program in Forks, WA.
Read moreThanks to a pilot program funded in part by Raptors Are The Solution (RATS) through a grant from The Summerlee Foundation, Kayla Shively, SEFS grad student, and her colleagues have been analyzing fur from fishers to track anticoagulant rodenticide (AR).
Read moreMoose-vehicle collisions are a constant problem in Alaska causing more than 800 accidents in the state, though many go unreported, according to Alaska Department of Fish and Game estimates.
A new study published in the Environmental Research Letters by Laura Prugh, SEFS Associate Professor, Calum Cunningham, SEFS researcher, and others, reveals that collisions are much more numerous in the evening-commute hours than in the pre-dawn morning-commute hours, even though both periods are dark.
Cougars are often called the “ghosts of the forest” and Laura Prugh can attest to that. Although she has been studying them for years, she has never seen one in person.
Read moreDr. Mike Tulee is the executive director of United Indians of All Tribes Foundation. His organization is working to make a closer connection to tribal culture in Seattle with the addition of a new 1,200-square-foot Canoe Carving House on the western edge of Lake Union Park.
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