On Oct. 14, SEFS will welcome Arun Agrawal, Professor at the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan, as the SEFS Seminar speaker.
Agrawal will present “Cash transfer programs and climate resilience.” Here is the abstract for his presentation:
“This review focuses on the relationship between cash transfer-based social assistance programs and the climate resilience of households and communities.
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A UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences Ph.D. student and her work on the affect wildfires and smoke have on farmworkers is the subject of a recent story in Crosscut.
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A UW School of Environmental and Forest Science professor recently published a paper in Ecology Letters on how predators affect the behaviors of their prey.
Professor Aaron Wirsing co-authored the study along with four other authors.
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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.
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To 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.
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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.
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UW 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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