AMNO & CO, a team of local students who design and build ocean-ready remote-controlled submersibles, was recently invited to attend the prestigeous White House Science Fair on April 13, 2016. According to the White House, students attending this year’s Science Fair—the last of six hosted by the Obama Administration—are tackling the nation’s greatest challenges, from combatting climate change to uncovering new ways to fight cancer and reaching farther beyond our atmosphere as part of the Mars generation.
Read more »Carbon dioxide in the free troposphere, butterflies, and more
Each week we share the latest peer-reviewed publications coming from the College of the Environment. Over the past week, four new articles co-authored by members of the College were added to the Web of Science database. They include articles about carbon dioxide in the free troposphere, butterflies, and more. Read on!
Read more »UW Environment wildlife scientist receives 2016 UW Award of Excellence
The School of Environmental and Forest Sciences’ Jorge Tomasevic recently received a 2016 UW Award of Excellence for his achievements in teaching, mentoring, public service, and staff support. Tomasevic is a wildlife scientist who’s at the University of Washington on a Fulbright-Conicyt scholarship from Chile. He works on the ecology and conservation of forest birds, and is especially interested in improving the conservation status of forest birds like the Chilean Woodstar and Masafuera.
Read more »Scientists recommend immediate plan to combat changes to West Coast seawater chemistry
Global carbon dioxide emissions are triggering troubling changes to ocean chemistry along the West Coast that require immediate, decisive actions to combat through a coordinated regional approach, a panel of scientific experts has unanimously concluded. A failure to adequately respond to this fundamental change in seawater chemistry, known as ocean acidification, is anticipated to have devastating ecological consequences for the West Coast in the decades to come, the 20-member West Coast Ocean Acidification and Hypoxia (OAH) Science Panel warned in a comprehensive report unveiled April 4.
Read more at UW Today »To be sustainable, conservation needs to consider the human factor
How decisions affect people’s lives, and how human culture, values, and equity affect conservation outcomes should be considered when defining sustainability goals and approaches to environmental management.
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