UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences assistant professor Brian J. Harvey has been busy these last few weeks. In addition to starting a new quarter, Harvey has spoken with numerous media outlets about the wildfires currently burning, how climate change is connected and how the land recovers after a blaze.
Read moreTo the SEFS Community,
Welcome to Autumn quarter 2020 at SEFS! And what an Autumn quarter it promises to be. I want to start this somewhat long message by acknowledging that so many of you are struggling to keep up your productivity in very challenging circumstances.
The wildfires in the Pacific Northwest, California and Australia that have raged in the last year are evidence that climate change is already here, according to Susan Prichard, forest ecologist and research scientist with the UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, who was interviewed by NBC News.
Read moreUW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences emeritus professor Jerry Franklin has published a new book on silviculture, which is the growing and cultivation of trees.
“Ecological Silviculture: Foundations and Applications” is published by Waveland Press and Franklin wrote the book with fellow authors Brian J.
A new app developed by School of Environmental and Forest Sciences professor John Marzluff and his wife Colleen will allow kids to become corvid researchers.
The free app, called Crow Scientist, coaches kids to pay attention to what the crows in their neighborhood are doing.
Amidst the wildfire smoke that’s poured into Seattle and western Washington recently, you may have noticed some neighbors are missing: The birds.
Turns out, they’re a lot like us. UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences Ph.D.
Ryan Batjiaka has been spending a lot of time with cucumbers, radishes and petunias. At least the soil the plants are housed in.
The work done by Batjiaka, a soil researcher working with SEFS research professor Sally Brown, was featured in a story in The Washington Post about how scientists can recycle sewer waste into garden soil.
Work at the University of Washington’s School of Environmental and Forest Sciences isn’t all trees and wildfires. It’s sharks, too. Yes, sharks.
SEFS associate professor Aaron Wirsing was one of the authors on a first-of-its-kind study, published recently in Nature, that reported the conservation status of reef shark populations worldwide.
Wildfire season is upon Washington state, and many people are wondering how the poor air quality that comes along with them could affect COVID-19 patients.
In a UW News story, the UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences assistant professor Brian J.
If an endangered species is quickly disappearing, what can natural resource managers do about it? A book exploring the answers and options for decision-making in the natural resource world was recently edited by Sarah J.
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