Researchers have discovered a handful of “bright spots” among the world’s embattled coral reefs, offering the promise of a radical new approach to conservation.
Read more at UW Today »‘Bright spots’ shine light on the future of coral reefs
Ray Hilborn receives international fisheries science prize
Ray Hilborn, UW professor of aquatic and fishery sciences, received the 2016 International Fisheries Science Prize at the World Fisheries Congress in Busan, South Korea.
Read more at UW Today »Bacteria in branches naturally fertilize trees
New research from a UW plant microbiologist finds that poplar trees harbor bacteria that could provide valuable nutrients to help the plant grow in rocking, inhospitable terrains.
Read more at UW Today »Remembering UW's Ed Miles (1939-2016)
Ed Miles’ impacts on marine and climate science, as well as the College of the Environment and across the University of Washington campus, will live on.
Read more »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.
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