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UW Environment Spring Celebration & College Awards Ceremony
Celebrate the end of the year with us at Spring Celebration & College Awards 2026! Enjoy desserts, non‑alcoholic drinks and time for relaxed socializing as we honor this year's awardees. This year games are back, so bring your competitive spirit.
All faculty, staff, students, postdocs and their guests are welcome. No RSVP needed. .
Tuesday, May 26, 2026, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
Fishery Sciences Building
First Floor, Lobby.
For more info visit events.uw.edu. College of the Environment Community-Engaged Research Symposium
Join UW colleagues in a showcase of community-engaged research featuring applied knowledge partnerships in various contexts. Lightning talks will show the breadth and depth of this research across the College of the Environment. Participatory break-out sessions will foster new collaborations and dialogue on best practices.
Save the date! Lunch will be provided.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: seagrant@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, May 29, 2026, 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM.
Husky Union Building (HUB 145).
MAXIMIZING SNOW STORAGE THROUGH FIRE-RESILIENT FOREST TREATMENTS: An example of climate adaptive management from the Eastern Cascades, WA, USA
In degraded landscapes, supporting climate adaptation for aquatic species and their habitats will require deploying diverse management actions in order to reduce the amplification effects of climate change. In the upper watersheds of the Eastern Cascade Mountains, wildfire suppression has increased forest density, drought susceptibility, and high severity burns. The area’s rivers are also drought vulnerable, with 75% of surface flow dependent upon snowpack. We asked whether forest thinning techniques designed to support wildfire resilience also confer hydrologic resilience through forest-snow processes, and implemented a gradient of forest thinning treatments across which we tracked snowpack response. In thinning treatments, we observed a 30% increase in snowpack storage on north-facing slopes, and a 16% increase in snowpack storage on south-facing slopes, thus indicating that wildfire treatments also support hydrologic processes.
Part of the Climate Impacts Group "Our Climate Future" webinar series.
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Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: cig@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Tuesday, June 2, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Online (Zoom).
For more info visit washington.zoom.us.