Volunteer this Saturday at the Center for Urban Horticulture! – UW News

This Saturday hundreds of volunteers from the ranks of contractors, developers, craft workers and construction-service providers in Western Washington will upgrade and put a shine on parts of the Center for Urban Horticulture on the University of Washington campus. Learn more, and join them!

 
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September 12th, 2012 | Tags: ,

Climate change adaptation – This week’s CoEnv published research

Each week we share the latest publications coming from the College of the Environment. This week, two new articles co-authored by members of the College of the Environment were added to the Web of Science or published online.

1. Title: Emerging Methods for Diagnostics and Mitigation of Crop Environmental Stress in a Changing Climate (Abstract; subscription required for full text)

Authors: Kim, Soo-Hyung1; Cregg, Bert2

1. Univ Washington, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, Center for Urban Horticulture
2. Michigan State Univ, Dept Hort, Dept Forestry

Journal:HORTSCIENCE

 

2. Title: The Adaptation for Conservation Targets (ACT) Framework: A Tool for Incorporating Climate Change into Natural Resource Management (Abstract; subscription required for full text)

Authors: Molly S. Cross, Erika S. Zavaleta, Dominique Bachelet, Marjorie L. Brooks, Carolyn A. F. Enquist, Erica Fleishman, Lisa J. Graumlich, Craig R. Groves, Lee Hannah, Lara Hansen, Greg Hayward, Marni Koopman, Joshua J. Lawler, Jay Malcolm, John Nordgren, Brian Petersen, Erika L. Rowland, Daniel Scott, Sarah L. Shafer, M. Rebecca Shaw, Gary M. Tabor

Journal: ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

July 17th, 2012 | Tags: , ,

How will climate change affect the DC cherry blossom festival? CUH turns to UW trees for answers – PLoS ONE

Cherry blossoms, an icon of spring, are celebrated in many cultures of the temperate region. For its sensitivity to winter and early spring temperatures, the timing of cherry blossoms is an ideal indicator of the impacts of climate change on tree phenology.  Center for Urban Horticulture’s Uran Chung and others examine the phenology of cherry trees in DC, the Midwest, and here on UW campus to see how they might respond to climate change.  They found an acceleration of 5 to 13 days by 2050, (depending on the IPCC’s A1B or A2 emission scenarios, respectively). Read more here.

November 9th, 2011 | Tags: ,