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Conversations on Defining Diversity: Recruitment & Retention in the Graduate Community – a CoEnv Public Forum

What makes a graduate school program attractive, and what doesn’t?
Can the College harness “environment” to recruit students of diverse backgrounds?
Are the challenges and opportunities new students face unit, or student population, specific?
What systems are needed to support and retain diverse students – and are they different from what majority students require?

Join our conversation with:
Charles Plummer, Graduate Student, Earth and Space Sciences. Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS) President.
Daniel Hernandez, Graduate Student, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences (check out this story about his JISAO internship).
Diana Pietri, Graduate Student, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences.

Click here for more info!

January 31st, 2012 | Tags: , , , ,

Pacific mackerel–used to feed farmed salmon–in decline, report states – NPR

A new report by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists cite research suggesting that “supertrawlers” have contributed to a whopping 63% decline in pacific mackerel since 2006. Read more about this report here.

January 31st, 2012 | Tags: , ,

Matrix land around parks helps species conservation – UW News

A giant armadillo moves through grass and brush cover of the Cerrado region in Brazil. (Image courtesy of Carly Vynne)

In the biodiverse Brazilian cerrado, protected areas are swiftly surrounded by agriculture, leaving the larger animals in parks with not enough space to roam – or even survive. A law in Brazil that requires keeping 20% of your farm’s original vegetation intact creates a matrix of natural and worked land that allows many animals to use the land. Read more about this study, published by Carly Vynne during her doctoral research at the Center for Conservation Biology, and others. Read the original article here.

January 30th, 2012 | Tags: , , ,

NEW: this week’s CoEnv published research! (via Web of Science)

As a new feature of our news blog, each week we will be sharing the latest publications coming from the College of the Environment. We hope you enjoy perusing the studies. CoEnv authors’ names are linked to their public profile pages!

This week, 2 new articles published by members of the College of the Environment were added to the Web of Science, a giant database of academic papers:

1.  Title: Microbial community structure of Arctic multiyear sea ice and surface seawater by 454 sequencing of the 16S RNA gene (free access!)

Authors: Bowman, Jeff S.1,2; Rasmussen, Simon3; Blom, Nikolaj3; Deming, Jody W.1,2; Rysgaard, Soren4; Sicheritz-Ponten, Thomas3

1. Univ Washington, School of Oceanography
2. Univ Washington, Astrobiol Program
3. Tech Univ Denmark
4. Greenland Inst Nat Resources

Journal: The ISME Journal

 

2.  Title: To flee or not to flee? Risk assessment by a marine snail in multiple cue environments (paywall)

Authors: Mach, Megan E.1; Bourdeau, Paul E.1

1. Univ Washington, Friday Harbor Labs

Journal: Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

January 30th, 2012 | Tags: ,

Video: UW town hall discussion with EPA chief Lisa P. Jackson – UW TV

UW TV has posted a new video of EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson’s visit on Wednesday. She and College of the Environment Dean Lisa Graumlich hosted a town hall and fielded questions from the audience and Facebook.

January 27th, 2012 | Tags: , , ,

Nature Commentary: can the economy deal with the decline of oil supplies? – UW News

J Murray, U of Washington/D King, U of Oxford/Nature Source: US Energy Information Administration Annual Energy Outlook 2011

In this week’s Nature, Oceanography’s James Murray and colleague commented that peak oil has past. In this UW News article, the commentary is discussed with the first author.

January 27th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , ,

“Sunshade” geoengineering may increase crop yields – Conservation Magazine

A new study in Nature Climate Change suggests that a high-CO2, sunshaded world may cause crop yields to increase. Conservation Magazine covers this interesting finding.

January 27th, 2012 | Tags: , , ,
 
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