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.

To be sustainable, conservation needs to consider the human factor

The Salmon Dancer Canoe Family paddles along the shorelines of Swinomish

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.

College of the Environment researchers explore the human side of large-scale marine protected areas

Earlier this month in Honolulu at an event co-organized by the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs’ Patrick Christie and Nathan Bennett, more than 100 participants met for the first-ever major discussion of challenges associated with how people interact with large marine protected areas. University of Washington, Big Ocean, NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, and other academic and policy institutions hosted the Think Tank on Human Dimensions of Large-Scale MPAs (LSMPAs) from Feb.

Herring fishery's strength is in the sum of its parts, study finds

A wise investor plays the financial market by maintaining a variety of stocks. In the long run, the whole portfolio will be more stable because of the diversity of the investments it contains. It’s this mindset that resource managers should adopt when considering Pacific herring, one of the most ecologically significant fish in Puget Sound and along the entire West Coast, argue the authors of a recent paper appearing in the journal Oecologia.

Jeffrey Cordell honored by the Seattle Aquarium

Every year, the Seattle Aquarium recognizes outstanding individuals who work and make a difference in the marine environment. This year, UW School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences research scientist Jeffrey Cordell was honored for his innovative work on restoring marine habitat along Seattle’s Elliott Bay seawall. Jeff led the long-term research, funded by the City of Seattle and Washington Sea Grant, to design, install, and monitor large-scale test panels at three locations along the Seattle waterfront as part of the Elliott Bay Seawall Project.