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Generating Enduring Results and Lasting Impact | FSD’s February Bulletin
OUR MISSION FSD achieves community-driven goals through asset-based development and international exchange in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
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Offshoots Blog- Interim Director’s Message: Summer 2017 July 18, 2017High summer in Seattle: blue skies, cool breezes, roses in the rose garden. How did we get here so fast? Seems like a moment ago I was writing you with “hello,” and now we’ve progressed through winter and spring quarters … Continue reading →
- Introducing the SEFS Shared Genetics Laboratory! July 10, 2017After many months of planning and set-up, room renovations and equipment tweaks, we are very pleased to announce that our new SEFS Shared Genetics Laboratory is fully open and operational in Bloedel 170! Funded by Professor Laura Prugh, SEFS and … Continue reading →
- Interim Director’s Message: Summer 2017 July 18, 2017
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- Tree Physiology Ph.D. Opportunity July 25, 2017
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- Our Heralded Hydrangeas July 26, 2017
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- Rock climbers help monitor bats and white-nose syndrome July 26, 2017Robert Schorr, a zoologist with the Colorado Natural Heritage Program at Colorado State University, was having coffee with a few colleagues, including another bat biologist, when he had an idea. After discussions about how rock climbers sometimes encounter large numbers of bats, Schorr and his colleagues realized that these climbers might be helpful with bat […]
- Sea-level rise: Predation to affect seaside sparrows more than flooding July 26, 2017When Elizabeth Hunter was doing her dissertation at the University of Georgia on the effects of sea-level rise on coastal birds, including seaside sparrows (Ammodramus maritimus), she noticed a lot more nests were getting depredated by predators than flooded by tides. Predation and tidal flooding are the two primary threats to seaside sparrow nest success. I […]
- Rock climbers help monitor bats and white-nose syndrome July 26, 2017
