To the SEFS Community,
Greetings on the new academic quarter and the New Year. We all have hopes for improvements in the pandemic over this year, though we also know that we will continue working mostly remotely through the current academic year.
Read moreUniversity of Washington Botanic Gardens (UWBG) Director Fred Hoyt will retire at the end of January.
Hoyt’s career at UWBG has spanned 38 years during which he has played an important role in many aspects of the stewardship and growth of its collections and programs.
For 20 years, UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences professor Aaron Wirsing and colleagues studied predator behavior among a variety of species that has culminated in a recently published report in Ecology Letters.
Read moreDr. Harold Tukey, Jr., UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences emeritus professor, founding director of the Center for Urban Horticulture and former director of the Washington Park Arboretum is being remembered for his horticultural contributions to the University, Seattle and beyond.
Read moreAs the Fall 2020 Quarter comes to a close, SEFS would like to congratulate the undergraduate and graduate students who have completed important milestones.
Graduate Students
Completed Final Exam (received Ph.D.)
Martin Bagaram
Catherine Kuhn
Zhengxin Lang
Carolyn Rachel Shores
Completed General Exam (Ph.D.
Read moreRecently published research from the UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has shown that microbes taken from trees that grow beside mountain-fed streams in Washington could make phosphorus trapped in soil more accessible to agricultural crops.
Read moreIt’s a long-discussed debate: Should you get a real or fake tree for this holiday season?
UW School of Environment and Forest Sciences research professor and soils expert Sally Brown weighed in recently.
Researchers at the Olympic Natural Resources Center (ONRC), within UW’s School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, are part of a group that were recently awarded $1 million grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to study harmful algal blooms with a self-driving vehicle that skims the surface of the water.
Read moreUW College of the Environment Dean and School of Environmental and Forest Science alumna Lisa Graumlich was named president-elect of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) starting Jan. 1.
After two years in this role, Graumlich will begin a two-year term as president of the AGU board beginning in 2023.
Two members of the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences community will be serving on the Washington Department of Natural Resources’ (DNR) Sustainable Harvest Technical Advisory Committee.
Associate Professor Sándor Tóth and Ph.D.