March 13, 2008
Etc: campus news and notes
PANEL PARTNERS: UW Tacoma Professor Joel Baker has been selected to chair the Puget Sound Partnership’s Science Panel, while the Applied Physics Laboratory’s Principal Oceanographer Jan Newton will be the vice chair. The two are among nine members of the science panel, which will provide independent scientific advice as the partnership develops a comprehensive plan to clean up and protect Puget Sound. Baker holds UWT’s Port of Tacoma Chair in environmental science, and has led water and air quality assessments in a variety of complex ecosystems. Newton is the lead investigator for the Hood Canal Dissolved Oxygen Program’s integrated assessment and modeling study and is also an assistant professor in the School of Oceanography.
TOPS IN ROTC: Major Bill Pastewait, Assistant Professor of Aerospace Studies, was recently named the 2007 American Defense Preparedness Association’s (ADPA) Colonel Leo A. Codd Memorial Award winner. This award recognizes the nation’s most outstanding ROTC instructors in each service. It is the first time in ADPA history that an individual instructor has won the award twice; Major Pastewait also earned this honor in 2005, placing him at the very top of more than 500 Air Force ROTC instructors nationwide.
SALMON-SAFE: UW Bothell and Cascadia Community College have received the “Salmon-Safe” certification from the Network for Business Innovation and Sustainability for their jointly managed 70-acre campus, which is located along North Creek, a tributary to the Sammamish River. The designation was given for safeguards each campus deploys to protect water quality and salmon habitat, as well as commitments each organization has made to further reduce its environmental impact over time.
Salmon-Safe certification means landowners go above and beyond regulations to adopt significant and specific measures that restore in-stream habitat, conserve water, protect streamside habitat and wetlands on site, reduce erosion and sedimentation, and reduce or eliminate the use of chemical pesticides through integrated pest management. Certification is awarded only after comprehensive on-site assessments by an independent team of environmental science and water quality experts based on Salmon-Safe’s rigorous standards.
The Washington State Department of Ecology headquarters campus and the Port of Seattle Parks also received the designation.
HISTORICAL HEROINE: Carla Rickerson, head of the Special Collections Division of UW Libraries, is the 2008 recipient of the Genealogical Publishing Co./History Section Award presented by the Reference and User Services Association, a division of the American Library Association. The award consists of $1,500 and a citation donated by The Genealogical Publishing Company and is given to encourage, recognize and commend professional achievement in historical reference and research librarianship.
INFLUENTIAL RESEARCH: A paper, “Guide to Fuel Treatments in Dry Forests of the Western United States: Assessing Forest Structure and Fire Hazard,” by Forest Resources Ph.D. candidates Morris Johnson and Crystal Raymond, has been named one of the 10 highly influential papers published by the U.S. Forest Service in 2007. The publication was completed as part of the forest service’s national fuels synthesis project, and it has been distributed to resource managers to use for fuel treatment planning.
