Southern Ocean deep convection, cloud radiative heating, and more

Each week we share the latest peer-reviewed publications coming from the College of the Environment. Over the past week, ten new articles co-authored by members of the College were added to the Web of Science database. They include articles about Southern Ocean deep convection, cloud radiative heating, and more. Read on!

Hunting wolves near Denali, Yellowstone cuts wolf sightings in half

A wolf trots down the road in Denali National Park and Preserve in front of a visitor bus.

New research from UW Environment's Laura Prugh and team shows that when hunting wolves is permitted just outside of parks, the park's visitors are 50 percent less likely to see wolves in their natural habitat.

UW’s Jerry Franklin honored for lifetime of forest research, policy

Forest ecologist Jerry Franklin has made a career of straddling two sometimes very different worldviews — that of the ecologist and the forester. The two professions historically didn’t see eye to eye, but Franklin, in his current role as a UW professor of environmental and forest sciences and previously as a forester with the U.S. Forest Service, has in his 60-year career found a way to integrate ecological and economic values into forestry.

Traditional beliefs in conservation, determinants of conifer distribution, and more

Each week we share the latest peer-reviewed publications coming from the College of the Environment. Over the past week, eight new articles co-authored by members of the College were added to the Web of Science database. They include articles about traditional beliefs in conservation, determinants of conifer distribution, and more. Read on!

UW experts call Paris climate agreement 'bold,' 'encouraging'

The agreement, reached Dec. 12 in Paris, establishes goals for reducing carbon emissions by 2020.

World leaders gathered in Paris in December to forge a global agreement to limit planet-warming carbon emissions. Similar summits had been held before, but the event was the first this century to end with an international agreement. The U.S., China and other countries will sign the document into law on Friday—appropriately enough, Earth Day. The Paris talks were attended by thousands of delegates, including four undergraduates from the University of Washington.