Humans of SEFS is a project that aims to highlight all the people that make up SEFS. Every person in SEFS brings something unique and individual to the table and this project aims to showcase the people who are a part of the SEFS community.
Read moreUW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences Professor and former Dean of the UW College of the Environment Lisa Graumlich told Yahoo News that the new Netflix movie “Don’t Look Up” is an “evocative” parable about climate change.
Read moreWhat began as an informal collaboration between University of Washington researchers and the outdoors and conservation industries to study the health impact of the environment is now leading to financial support for forests and public lands.
Read moreA former UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences undergraduate student was published in a recent issue of FieldNotes, a student-run undergraduate journal and digital storytelling platform based in the College of the Environment at the University of Washington.
Read moreThe UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences has received a $246,000 award from the USDA‘s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) to support fellowships for a cohort of students who will receive training and conduct research that aims to study forests using geospatial data.
Read moreAs a federal agency, the U.S. Forest Service has a responsibility to the 574 federally recognized Tribal Nations as crises related to climate change, biodiversity, the economy and health all disproportionately harm Native Americans who have faced genocide, ecocide and the breaking of the 368 Treaties, says Tania Ellersick, analyst with the U.S.
Read moreAs the recent wildfire season lingers in the minds of many, research scientists, including UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences’ Susan Prichard, are calling for more thinning of forests.
Prichard and many other scientists escalated the fight to save forests after Chad Hanson, an environmentalist, said the 2021 Caldor Fire near Lake Tahoe shows forest thinning doesn’t work.
The UW Chemistry Department is hosting a presentation on quantifying climate change.
Dr. Nathan Urban, leader of the Applied Mathematics group in the Computational Science Initiative at Brookhaven National Laboratory, on Long Island, New York, will present “Projecting the Future: Quantifying Uncertainties in How the Climate Will Change” on Nov.
Forest researchers and managers have long focused on studying how they can increase the resilience of forests, but as a management objective, the concept has been difficult to put into action.
Read moreThe UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences own Associate Professor and Associate Director of CINTRAFOR Indroneil Ganguly will present this week’s SEFS Seminar. He will be discussing how building with sustainably harvested forests is a carbon-neutral alternative to typical building development.
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