Tag: forest and wildlife ecology
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Posted on May 20, 2016
Photos: Log-A-Load for Kids Charitable Harvest event at Arlington ARS
Last week, Arlington ARS hosted a Log-A-Load for Kids Charitable Harvest event that brought around 430 local elementary and middle school students to the station […]
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Posted on May 16, 2016
CALS student Megs Seeley receives Udall Scholarship
Megs Seeley, a CALS junior studying forest science and botany, has been named a 2016 Udall Scholar. The honor is given in recognition of leadership, public […]
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Posted on April 11, 2016
Phil Pellitteri, Ray Guries and Gene Smalley honored by Wisconsin Urban Forestry Council
Three CALS scientists were recently recognized for their contributions to urban forestry by the Wisconsin Urban Forestry Council. Ray Guries, emeritus professor of forest and wildlife […]
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Posted on April 10, 2016
UW2020: WARF Discovery Initiative to support four projects with CALS ties
Fourteen highly innovative research projects have been chosen for the first round of funding by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Office of the Vice Chancellor for […]
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Posted on April 4, 2016
No snow, no hares: Climate change pushes emblematic species north
If there is an animal emblematic of the northern winter, it is the snowshoe hare. A forest dweller, the snowshoe hare is named for its […]
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Posted on March 21, 2016
Two CALS entries among winners of Cool Science Image Contest
Two images created by CALS students were were among the 10 winning entries in the university’s sixth annual Cool Science Image Contest. Our congratulations go out to forest and […]
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Posted on March 18, 2016
CALS’ Anna Pidgeon and Tom Rutherford presenting at UW Climate Change Symposium
Forest and wildlife ecology associate professor Anna Pidgeon and agricultural and applied economics professor Tom Rutherford will be giving research talks at the 2nd annual […]
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Posted on March 6, 2016
Anna Pidgeon selected for Vilas Faculty Mid-Career Investigator Award
Forest and wildlife ecology associate professor Anna Pidgeon, an expert on avian ecology and landscape ecology, was recently selected to receive a Vilas Faculty Mid-Career Investigator […]
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Posted on February 8, 2016
CALS researchers seek farmers to “ground truth” new remote-sensing maps
A multi-disciplinary group of CALS researchers has begun reaching out to farmers, asking them to become citizen scientists by sharing field-level crop yield data with the research […]
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Posted on January 10, 2016
Campus canid update, including new way to report sightings
The following is an update on our UW campus foxes and coyotes submitted in late December by Marcus Mueller, a wildlife ecology graduate student involved in the Urban Canid […]