A SEFS project aiming to build a better understanding of how future climate change will affect the potential for fires west of the cascades and understand how fire and climate affect forest recovery and management options there has received $300,000 in funding from the USGS NW Climate Adaptation Science Center.
Read moreA message from Dan Brown, SEFS Director, on June 1, 2020:
Dear SEFS Community,
I’m reflecting at the end of a long weekend after a long week. This has been a very challenging quarter for all of us, as we’ve adapted our teaching, learning, and research to carry on in some fashion in the midst of a global pandemic.
UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences professor Kristiina Vogt was recently interviewed by Living Green Technology, a Seattle-based organization that spreads awareness on the hazards of electronic waste and provides an eco-friendly way to recycle unused electronics.
Read moreThe Washington Rare Plant Care and Conservation program within the University of Washington Botanic Gardens has received the 2020 Conservation Partner of the Year Award from the Washington Native Plant Society.
Read moreThree School of Environmental and Forest Science students have been named to the 2020 Husky 100 list!
Congratulations to Autumn Forespring, an ESRM and American Indian Studies student, Sierra Red Bow, an ESRM and American Indian Studies student, and Olivia Sanderfoot, a Ph.D.
Dear SEFS Community:
Greetings to all of you, wherever you may be. It’s eerily quiet on campus during this time of the year, which is usually one of the busiest. I hope you are finding ways to make the most of this unusual time.
On April 13, the UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences welcomed Timothy Egan, National Book Award winner, author and journalist, as the 2020 Sustaining Our World lecture speaker. Due to Washington’s Stay Home, Stay Healthy Order, the lecture was held virtually.
Read moreDarryll Johnson, a longtime School of Environmental and Forest Sciences researcher, has passed away.
Johnson was the longtime leader of the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) stationed at SEFS, which was preceded by the Cooperative Park Studies Unit in the College of Forest Resources.
Doctoral student Olivia Sanderfoot and her study of how social distancing is impacting birds was recently featured in Portland Monthly.
Sanderfoot, who was studying the effects of prescribed burns on birds, pivoted her research when the COVID-19 global pandemic reached the Pacific Northwest.
If you’re looking for a way to pass time during social distancing, UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences students and scientists need your help watching birds.
Researchers at the University of Washington Quantitative Ecology Lab have launched a community science program through eBird to monitor birds in urban and suburban neighborhoods across the Pacific Northwest while social distancing measures are in place:
LOCATION: We are recruiting volunteers to monitor birds in their own backyard or their favorite local green space — a place they can walk to without violating current shelter-in-place orders.
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