Most Washingtonians know wildfire smoke is here to stay, and researchers are wondering what happens to the birds when the smoke takes over the skies.
UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences researchers are among the first to study the impact of wildfire smoke on common birds.
As Seattle and western Washington is about to see temperatures above 100, experts are warning of the wildfire danger that comes along with the heat.
UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences (SEFS) faculty and researchers have spoken to various media outlets recently about the wildfire danger that comes with the hot temperatures.
As the next wildfire season approaches, Washington is preparing for what experts are saying could be a “challenging” year. Many people may wonder why wildfire season has become so severe and what has led to this level of concern for Washington’s forests.
Read moreA UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences 2019 Ph.D. graduate and beaver expert was quoted in a recent story by The Seattle Times.
Ben Dittbrenner ’19, who also founded Beavers Northwest in 2013, discussed with the newspaper how beavers view roads as dams and the culverts in them as spaces that need patching up.
A UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences graduate has been named the winner of the prestigious UW President’s Medal for 2021 and appointed as the 2021 Gonfaloniere for the College of the Environment.
Read moreThe last SEFS Seminar of Spring Quarter 2021 will be on carbon cycling in forest soils.
Peter Kennedy, a mycologist and associate professor in the University of Minnesota’s Department of Plant and Microbial Biology” will present, “Do interactions among different fungal guilds control carbon cycling in forest soils?” at 3:30 p.m.
Every spring, the UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences recognizes a number of people within the SEFS community for their efforts over the previous year. Given the difficulties of the past year and a half, the SEFS Awards Committee opted to award two people per award.
Read moreWhen Sheila Goodman found out a significant amount of the world’s clean drinking water is lost due to inadequate infrastructure like leaking pipes, she sought a solution.Five years later, she created an inexpensive remote water sensor, made from sustainable materials, that detect leaks and prevents water damage and protects the water.
Read moreDear SEFS community:
As we enter the final weeks of Spring Quarter 2021, and we look forward to longer days and the summer field season, we are grateful for the prospect of greater freedom of movement and more in-person learning and research in the future.
Three UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences (SEFS) community members have been named to COMPASS’s 2021 Wilburforce Leaders in Conservation Science cohort.
L. Monika Moskal, SEFS Professor and Associate Director; Julia Michalak, SEFS research scientist; and Keala Hagmann, of Applegate Forestry LLC and SEFS; were all named to the 2021 cohort.