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SEFS Faculty Meeting (11:30am - 12:30pm)
Contact: Mary Keyes: mkeyes2@uw.edu. Accessibility Contact: sefsmain@uw.edu.
Tuesday, November 4, 2025, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM.
Winkenwerder 105.
Fish and Wildlife Seminar: Professor Julian Oden, SAFS
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Contact: sconver@uw.edu. Accessibility Contact: sefsmain@uw.edu.
Tuesday, November 4, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
Zoom - https://washington.zoom.us/j/4432362511.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Webinar | The Last Drop - Water Researchers Speaker Series
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Accessibility Contact: sefsmain@uw.edu.
Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM.
Scan the QR code below to register or visit this link - https://umanitoba.zoom.us/meeting/register/0rzhln4-SQWrazhJCNNtxg#/registration.
For more info visit umanitoba.zoom.us. 2025 Urban Forest Symposium
$110 in-person. $45 virtual.
Given the current state of our country, the increasing impacts of resourcing shortfalls and climate change, how do we maintain our relationships with each other to keep Urban Forestry and eco-cultural systems work moving forward? How do we ensure momentum we have built doesn’t disappear? Our Symposium is a meaningful venue for people to connect, build, strengthen, steward, and expand relationships collectively for creating actionable solutions together. Let’s gather to celebrate, rejuvenate, rebuild, and re-Indigenize!
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Northwest Horticultural Society Hall (NHS). Accessibility Contact: urbhort@uw.edu. Ticket Link: https://apps.ideal-logic.com/uwbg?key=2WSB-TGY2T_K9KH-5PTF_cf840e72073e.
Wednesday, November 5, 2025, 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM.
For more info visit apps.ideal-logic.com. Free 1st Thursday Public Tour
UW Botanic Gardens is committed to enriching the lives of all community members with free public tours. Please note our tours are for individual participants not organized groups. If you wish to have a group tour, please explore your options at botanicgardens.uw.edu. To ensure a positive tour experience and the safety of our visitors, our tours are now capped at 50 attendees on a first come first serve basis.
Our 1st Thursday public tours are casual walks through various areas of the 230 acre Washington Park Arboretum. Walks feature seasonal themes, collections plants, explorations of botany, and the history of our organization.
Our topic this month has to be Autumn color in our plant collection!
To join the walk, meet us at the Graham Visitors Center, docents will be there to greet and gather visitors.
We make every effort to tailor our tours to our audience and most months we are able to offer visitors a choice of a longer or shorter walk depending on their capabilities. If you have any specific…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: cmn23@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions. Age Range: Teens. Adults. Presenter: UW Botanic Garden Tour Docents. Contact Information: Catherine Nelson at cmn23@uw.edu.
Thursday, November 6, 2025, 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM.
Washington Park Arboretum
Graham Visitors Center
2300 Arboretum Dr E, Seattle.
For more info visit botanicgardens.uw.edu. SEFS Social
SEFS Socials are chance to step out of your classroom, laboratory, or office to enjoy some light refreshments & connect with other SEFS faculty, students, & staff!
Contact: sefsmain@uw.edu. Accessibility Contact: sefsmain@uw.edu.
Thursday, November 6, 2025, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
1st floor hallway in Bloedel Hall.
Autumn Botanical Collage - Art Workshop (in-person)
Cost: $57
Limited financial aid slots offered on a first-come, first-serve basis. REGISTER ONLINE, Cut, tear, and paste layers of colorful papers to create small pieces to frame! Taking inspiration from the autumn flora of the UW Botanic Gardens, you will learn to simplify the subject matter, create dynamic compositions, and discover techniques to take with you. All materials will be supplied, but students are welcome to bring in their own subject matter, photos and ideas to work from, as well as collage papers to recycle into their pieces. Students of all artist levels welcomed.
Instructor Lisa Snow Lady has a BFA in painting from the University of Washington, and a degree in Ornamental Horticulture from Edmonds Community College and has been sketching and painting for over 20 years. She has a passion for travel sketching and is a member of Urban Sketchers. Lisa loves to encourage students of all artistic levels.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: urbhort@uw.edu. Presenter: Lisa Snow Lady. Contact Information: urbhort@uw.edu. Ticket Link: https://apps.ideal-logic.com/uwbg?key=2WSB-TGY2T_K9KH-5PTF_3e6dc23fbb3b.
Saturday, November 8, 2025, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Center for Urban Horticulture.
For more info visit apps.ideal-logic.com. SEFS Faculty Meeting (11:30am - 12:30pm)
Contact: Mary Keyes: mkeyes2@uw.edu. Accessibility Contact: sefsmain@uw.edu.
Tuesday, November 11, 2025, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM.
Winkenwerder 105.
Fiber Art Workshop: Embroider a PNW Landscape Ornament (in-person)
Class Cost: $52, pre-registration required
REGISTER ONLINE, Limited financial aid slots offered on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Celebrate the mountains, greenery, and waterways of the Pacific Northwest with this hand-embroidered ornament. Perfectly sized at 3 inches for decorating a tree, gifting to a loved one, or displaying all year round. This beginner-friendly workshop is the perfect way to celebrate the PNW landscape.Melissa Galbraith is the fiber artist behind MCreativeJ. She was born and raised in the desert of Washington state where her mother instilled a love of making things by hand at an early age. Melissa shares her love of nature through whimsical and modern hand embroidery kits, patterns, workshops, and her books; DIY Embroidered Shoes and How to Embroider Texture and Pattern. Melissa enjoys seeing makers fall in love with the needle arts, especially that magical ah-ha moment of learning something new.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: urbhort@uw.edu. Presenter: Melissa Galbraith. Contact Information: urbhort@uw.edu. Ticket Link: https://apps.ideal-logic.com/uwbg?key=2WSB-TGY2T_K9KH-5PTF_b06c6fa68579.
Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM.
Douglas Classroom, Center for Urban Horticulture.
For more info visit apps.ideal-logic.com. Forest Bathing (in-person)
Cost: $25
Advance registration required.
REGISTER ONLINE
Join UW Botanic Gardens and Cascadia Forest Therapy for a unique forest bathing opportunity in the Washington Park Arboretum. Forest bathing (or shinrin-yoku) has been popular in Japan for decades and is gaining momentum in the US. The practice encourages you to move in nature at a slower pace and take in the atmosphere around you. Multiple scientific studies have shown that the practice lowers stress and blood pressure levels, while increasing immune system functioning, making you more resilient to diseases and illness.
During this class the guide, in partnership with the forest, will offer an evolving series of invitations crafted to help participants slow down and open their senses. The opening of one’s senses encourages mindfulness, which readies the heart and mind to be fully present in the natural world. Come discover the medicine of being in the forest.
Accessibility: These sessions are slow-paced and generally cover less than a mile of trail.…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Washington Park Arboretum (LNDMK-8). Accessibility Contact: urbhort@uw.edu. Presenter: Cascadia Forest Therapy. Ticket Link: https://apps.ideal-logic.com/uwbg?key=2WSB-TGY2T_K9KH-5PTF_3d3487c58e5c.
Saturday, November 15, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM.
For more info visit apps.ideal-logic.com. Arboretum Lichens
Cost: $45
Limited financial aid slots offered on a first-come, first-serve basis.
REGISTER ONLINE
Lichens grow on trees, shrubs and rocks in botanic gardens and can tell us about air quality and the make-up of plants and geology. Botanic gardens can take on new meaning as a *fun* place to observe a symbiotic organism made up of a fungus and algae. You will also learn about common lichens found in an urban environment and take home a user-friendly chart that lists lichens found in your neighborhood.
Lichens are harmless to your plants and add aesthetic value to trees and shrubs. We can actually use them as indicators of air pollution! Join Dr. Katherine Glew at the Washington Park Arboretum to get a head start on learning lichens from one of Seattle’s botanic gardens. You can enjoy the late winter/early spring season by looking for lichens, rather than staying inside and missing out on the excitement of being outside!
Instructor Katherine Glew, Ph.D. is Curatorial Associate of Lichens at the University of…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: urbhort@uw.edu. Presenter: Katherine Glew, Ph.D. Curatorial Associate of Lichens at the UW Herbarium, Burke Museum. Contact Information: urbhort@uw.edu. Ticket Link: https://apps.ideal-logic.com/uwbg?key=2WSB-TGY2T_K9KH-5PTF_e203fde2a561.
Sunday, November 16, 2025, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Washington Park Arboretum.
For more info visit apps.ideal-logic.com. SEFS Faculty Meeting (11:30am - 12:30pm)
Contact: Mary Keyes: mkeyes2@uw.edu. Accessibility Contact: sefsmain@uw.edu.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM.
Winkenwerder 105.
SEFS Social
SEFS Socials are chance to step out of your classroom, laboratory, or office to enjoy some light refreshments & connect with other SEFS faculty, students, & staff!
Contact: sefsmain@uw.edu. Accessibility Contact: sefsmain@uw.edu.
Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM.
1st floor hallway in Bloedel Hall.
SEFS Faculty Meeting (11:30am - 12:30pm)
Contact: Mary Keyes: mkeyes2@uw.edu. Accessibility Contact: sefsmain@uw.edu.
Tuesday, November 25, 2025, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM.
Winkenwerder 105.
SEFS Faculty Meeting (11:30am - 12:30pm)
Contact: Mary Keyes: mkeyes2@uw.edu. Accessibility Contact: sefsmain@uw.edu.
Tuesday, December 2, 2025, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM.
Winkenwerder 105.
Fish and Wildlife Seminar Series: Sierra Gillman - Environmental drivers of long-term at-sea population change in marbled murrelets and their conservation implications
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Contact: ndamato@uw.edu. Accessibility Contact: sefsmain@uw.edu.
Tuesday, December 2, 2025, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
Zoom - https://washington.zoom.us/j/4432362511.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Forest Bathing (in-person)
Cost: $25
Advance registration required.
REGISTER ONLINE
Join UW Botanic Gardens and Cascadia Forest Therapy for a unique forest bathing opportunity in the Washington Park Arboretum. Forest bathing (or shinrin-yoku) has been popular in Japan for decades and is gaining momentum in the US. The practice encourages you to move in nature at a slower pace and take in the atmosphere around you. Multiple scientific studies have shown that the practice lowers stress and blood pressure levels, while increasing immune system functioning, making you more resilient to diseases and illness.
During this class the guide, in partnership with the forest, will offer an evolving series of invitations crafted to help participants slow down and open their senses. The opening of one’s senses encourages mindfulness, which readies the heart and mind to be fully present in the natural world. Come discover the medicine of being in the forest.
Accessibility: These sessions are slow-paced and generally cover less than a mile of trail.…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Washington Park Arboretum (LNDMK-8). Accessibility Contact: urbhort@uw.edu. Presenter: Cascadia Forest Therapy. Ticket Link: https://apps.ideal-logic.com/uwbg?key=2WSB-TGY2T_K9KH-5PTF_ea7405962d79.
Saturday, December 6, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM.
For more info visit apps.ideal-logic.com. Botanical Print-Making Holiday Card Workshop
Cost: $45
Limited financial aid slots offered on a first-come, first-serve basis. REGISTER ONLINE, Come make your own unique holiday cards and gift tags through an exploration of mixed media printmaking! Explore the patterns and textures of plants through print-making processes. This class will invite you to use natural materials, like fallen leaves & conifer needles, to create one-of-a-kind holiday cards to give to your loved ones this holiday season. All class supplies are provided.
Instructor Dillyn Adamo is a print-maker and arts educator in Skagit County, WA. Currently she works as the Learning & Engagement Coordinator at the Museum of Northwest Art, where she creates arts experiences for visitors of all ages. She has a passion for both biology and fine arts, and uses print-making as a way to explore both of these interests.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Douglas Research Conservatory (DRC). Accessibility Contact: urbhort@uw.edu. Presenter: Dillyn Adamo. Contact Information: urbhort@uw.edu. Ticket Link: https://apps.ideal-logic.com/uwbg?key=2WSB-TGY2T_K9KH-5PTF_a0b9460a6be5.
Saturday, December 6, 2025, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
For more info visit apps.ideal-logic.com. Washington Native Trees Tour
Join us for this free campus native trees tour! SEFS very own Theo Hoss will be guiding this tour. The evergreen state is known for staying green throughout the cold gray months, so what better way to kick off winter by learning about our beautiful native trees of Washington that are keeping things vibrant this chilly season. This tour will introduce participants to some of our most iconic conifers, as well as a few of the deciduous broadleaf varieties.
Contact: tdhoss@uw.edu. Accessibility Contact: sefsmain@uw.edu.
Sunday, December 7, 2025, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
Meet at the front entrance of the Burke Museum (parking lot side).
For more info visit sites.google.com. SEFS Faculty Meeting (11:30am - 12:30pm)
Contact: Mary Keyes: mkeyes2@uw.edu. Accessibility Contact: sefsmain@uw.edu.
Tuesday, December 9, 2025, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM.
Winkenwerder 105.
SEFS Social
SEFS Socials are chance to step out of your classroom, laboratory, or office to enjoy some light refreshments & connect with other SEFS faculty, students, & staff!
Contact: sefsmain@uw.edu. Accessibility Contact: sefsmain@uw.edu.
Wednesday, December 17, 2025, 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM.
1st floor hallway in Bloedel Hall.
Soil Science - Full Series
Cost: Full Series 15% Discount - $230.00
REGISTER ONLINE, Financial aid slots available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Join us in our series Getting Down to Earth: Understanding soils for ecosystem resilience and repair to learn about the properties of soil, the ecology of soil in its microclimate and larger environment, and how to manage and remediate soil for your restoration site. These classes were developed and are instructed by Christina Pfeiffer and Rodney Pond and are a part of UW Botanic Garden’s Ecological Restoration for Professionals program. This series will be beneficial for those working in ecological restoration, landscape professionals, landscape architects and designers, and natural area stewards. Home gardeners are welcome as well!
The Soils Science - Full Series includes all 6 soils science classes: Scratching the Surface: Soil Formation, Structure, and Chemistry , Buried Alive!: Digging into Soil Biology and Ecology , Soaking It All In: Understanding Soil Water , Getting into the…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: urbhort@uw.edu. Presenter: Christina Pfeiffer and Rodney Pond. Contact Information: urbhort@uw.edu. Ticket Link: https://apps.ideal-logic.com/uwbg?key=2WSB-TGY2T_K9KH-5PTF_38813016038f.
Tuesday, January 27, 2026, 9:00 AM – 11:15 AM.
Online via Zoom.
For more info visit apps.ideal-logic.com. Scratching the Surface: Soil Formation, Structure, and Chemistry (online)
Cost: $45
REGISTER ONLINE, Financial aid slots available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Class 1 of 6. Students will be introduced to the format of the class series and learn the essential basics of soil science; how they are formed, their physical properties and chemistry. Students will be provided and introduced to soil management plan and soil assessment worksheets to develop for their own project sites. Instructors will give demonstrations of soil properties assessment techniques to be performed as homework at their project sites. Getting Down to Earth: Understanding soils for ecosystem resilience and repair - About the Series
Understanding soils – what they are, how they function, how they degrade, and how to steward them back to health – empowers restoration professionals to design and implement more resilient and self-sustaining ecosystem restoration projects. This series of classes will build from the ground up a holistic knowledge of soils that will enable students to understand how and when…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: urbhort@uw.edu. Ticket Link: https://apps.ideal-logic.com/uwbg?key=2WSB-TGY2T_K9KH-5PTF_fcd880cec112.
Tuesday, January 27, 2026, 9:00 AM – 11:15 AM.
Online via Zoom.
For more info visit apps.ideal-logic.com.