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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.
Read moreFuture Rivers Feature Film Screening Series Launch
We are excited to announce the launch of our feature film screening series! Join us in celebrating Earth Week with a free screening of the film Kiss the Ground, which provides a solution to balancing our climate, replenishing our freshwater supplies, and feeding the world.
Read moreDavid 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.
Read moreParasites are going extinct. Here is why we need to save them.
Future Rivers Executive Committee member and UW’s School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences assistant professor Chelsea Wood’s novel research on the ecology of parasites and pathogens in a changing world was the subject of a recent article in National Geographic and NatGeo UK.
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