When 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.
Mindfulness has become a sought-after activity in today’s fast paced world to lower anxiety, ease stress and find balance. And forest bathing takes mindfulness to the woods.
So what is forest bathing?
For many, the idea of maple syrup production evokes images of snowy forests in Vermont and Canada. But one UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences researcher wondered, why not the Pacific Northwest?
Read moreUW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences Ph.D. student Catherine Kuhn and SEFS Associate Professor David Butman have co-authored a recently published study on how climate change is affecting Arctic-boreal lakes.
Read moreAn ongoing study of the relationships between Washington predators and their prey that involves three UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences graduate students received new attention last month. That’s because the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife released a 13-minute video at a WA DNR commission meeting to show the purpose of the multiyear study, according to a recent story by The Spokesman-Review.
Read moreThe work of the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences‘ Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee (DEI) has been highlighted in a news story on the UW College of the Environment‘s blog.
Read moreThe first SEFS Seminar of the spring quarter 2021 will be presented by Ruth DeFries, a professor of ecology and sustainable development at Columbia University in New York.
DeFries will present “Lessons from Nature for an Uncertain Future” at 3:30 p.m.
Congratulations to UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences Professor Josh Lawler, who has been named a 2021 fellow of the Ecological Society of America. Fellows are elected for life, and the honor recognizes scientists who advance or apply ecological knowledge in academics, government, nonprofits and the broader society.
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