UW News


January 13, 2014

DeLap studies urban birds, sketches for book ‘Subirdia’ due out in 2014

Drawing of hand and bird

Slideshow includes with images sketched by Jack DeLap, UW doctoral candidate in environmental and forestry sciences.


November 8, 2013

Forest fires and fireside chats: UW students learn about management challenges

Students uses hand lens to examine moss on rock

An intensive two week field course helped 20 University of Washington students learn firsthand about the challenges of managing dry, fire-prone forests of the Pacific Northwest.


February 20, 2013

Searchable by cell phone or GPS unit, interactive map for arboretum being created

Two children among cherry trees in the Washington Park Arboretum.

UW Botanic Gardens is digitizing 55 years of handwritten plant records and creating an interactive GIS map for the Washington Park Arboretum.