A Visit to Vashon Island with Professor Ford
A couple weeks ago, on the first Friday of November, a two-car caravan took off from the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences to catch an early-afternoon ferry out to Vashon Island.
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For GIS Day, SEFS Students Help with 3D Printing of Husky Statue
Coming up this Wednesday, November 20, is national GIS Day, and the University of Washington has organized a number of activities around campus to celebrate all things geospatial. Naturally, you’d expect Professor Monika Moskal’s Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis Lab (RSGAL) to have a big hand in the festivities—and they certainly do!
Read moreMount Rainier Institute Welcomes First Students
This past October, after a year of planning and preparation, the Mount Rainier Institute successfully conducted its first two pilot programs down at Pack Forest!
The idea first germinated with Professor Greg Ettl and the National Park Service several years ago.
Jack DeLap: An Artist Among Us
If you’ve ever seen Jack DeLap lead a bird walk, you can’t help but feel his passion for everything avian. Watch him parse the sounds of the forest—bending his ear for the beat of a wing, squinting for each feathered clue—and it’s impossible to tell a line between work and play for him.
Read moreEmeritus Spotlight: Dave Manuwal
“I’ve known what I wanted to do for an awfully long time, probably more than 60 years,” says Professor Emeritus Dave Manuwal of the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences (SEFS).
Read moreForest Fires and Fireside Chats: Two Weeks in Oregon with Professor Jerry Franklin
Just before the official start of Fall Quarter this past September, 20 students spent two weeks exploring the forests of central and southern Oregon as part of an intensive field course with Professor Jerry Franklin.
Read moreUndergrad Spotlight: Ross Kirshenbaum
At the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences (SEFS), our students bring all sorts of backgrounds and interests—in and out of the classroom—and you’d be hard-pressed to put an easy label on any two of them, let along the whole bunch.
Read moreProfessor Moskal Delivers Keynote Address at Conference in Beijing
SEFS Professor Monika Moskal just returned from a week-long trip to China, which included giving a keynote address—“LiDAR for the Measurement and Monitoring of Forest Ecosystem Services”—at the 2013 SilviLaser conference in Beijing, October 9-11 (the “13th International Conference on LiDAR Applications for Assessing Forest Ecosystems”).
Read morePileated Woodpeckers in Suburban Seattle?
This Friday, October 18, the Olympic Natural Resources Center (ONRC) in Forks, Wash., will be hosting the second presentation as part of its new monthly speaker series, “Evening Talks at ONRC.”
Each month, a graduate student or other regional expert will give a public talk to engage members of the Forks and surrounding communities in exciting research projects throughout the state.
“Tree of the Week” Sprouts Again!
In case you haven’t noticed—and that includes yours truly, who had to eat his words after making a snide remark about how no one was updating the display—the “Tree of the Week” spotlight in Anderson Hall is back in business!
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