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Welcome 2021/2022 Future Rivers Trainees!

Eight new graduate students will join our program this September. This cohort represents seven departments in five colleges across the University of Washington, making for a truly transdisciplinary learning experience. Their areas of interest span post-wildfire water quality in native communities to big data responses to changes in snow patterns on subalpine meadows.

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Queer Ecologies Podcast

Cleo Woelfle-Erskine – Future Rivers faculty advisor and SMEA assistant professor teamed up with July Hazard – CHID assistant professor – to ask climate scientists, ecologists, choreographers, poets, and creatives to share their unique perspectives on how queer and trans identities can and do play important roles in shifting the way we think about the sciences and our relations with the more-than-human.

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David Butman Co-authors Paper on Decreasing CO2 Emissions from Chinese Inland

Dr. David Butman, UW associate professor in the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences and Future Rivers Executive Committee member, co-authored a recently published paper suggesting that the CO2 emissions from Chinese inland waters have greatly offset the terrestrial carbon sink and are therefore a key component of China’s carbon budget.

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