July 2001
The Straight Grain Volume 5, Issue 2
Table of Contents
Dean's Office
Personnel changes
Employee service awards
Policy change for Anderson 22
CINTRAFOR
18th annual International Forest Products Markets Conference
Business Operations
Cut off dates for paperwork
Canopy Crane
7th Annual Science Conference
Hello everyone. I didn't send out a Straight Grain on Friday becuase with
the holiday and all, things are pretty quiet here in CFR. Not too much to report.
Please send me items as they come to your attention and I will send out another
Straight Grain either this Firday or next Friday. -Adam
*****Dean's Office*****
PERSONNEL CHANGES
As announced in the minutes from the Management Counsel's June 22 meeting, shortly
we will be advertising for a College administrator. Geetha Sukamaran and Gordon
Hammond, as well as any other person, may apply. Our intent is to hire the best
qualified person we can find who simultaneously possesses the personal qualifications
most compatible with other members of the Deans's Office. Cecilia Paul has been
retained on the Dean's Office staff to assist with development, communication,
planning, reporting and compliance. We are extremely pleased that Cecilia will
stay with us. Marianne Elliott (melliott@u.washington.edu) will be employed
over the Summer (and perhaps longer) to assist the Dean's Office in updating
the CFR web page. She will be seeking the assistance of many CFR personnel in
this endeavor. Adam Nance will assist Marianne in this activity. Greg Brazil
is our new temporary building coordinator (our new Carl) here in the Dean's
office. Please stop by and say hello. Greg is also going to be in charge of
the building keys for Bloedel, Winkenwerder and Anderson. He is going to confine
his key duties to the hours of 3:30 and 5:00 Monday-Friday. So if you need keys,
please stop by during those hours.
EMPLOYEE SERVICE AWARDS
As you may know, the University celebrates important employee milestones with
Service Awards specially selected for the 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 year annivrsaries.
However, (and I know you'll find this hard to believe) the data base that is
used has many 'gaps of understanding' and misses lots of people. If you have
passed one of these anniversaries and have NOT received recognition, please
email Sally (slm@). The service period does not have to have been all with CFR,
but does have to be continuous employment (i.e., only count the years since
you got back from your 3 years in the Outback).
*****Policy Change for Anderson 22*****
The Anderson 22 Seminar Room is scheduled for some improvements in the next
few months. The first steps have to do with cleaning the room and making it
more secure. Last week the carpet was cleaned and the lock on the door to the
room has been changed. Next, the windows will be altered so that they cannot
be opened completely (avoiding the intruders like those we had last year). Also
this summer new storage cabinets will be installed so that the supplies for
the room can be kept more organized and accessible to users. A telephone line
and handset have been installed for meetings with conference calls. In the works
are new furniture, paint, technology, etc. We hope to get most of these updates
completed before fall quarter when use of the room gets busy. The on-line reservation
system is still the best way to reserve the room: http://www.cfr.washington.edu/Outreach/Anderson22/Anderson22.html
*****CINTRAFOR*****
CINTRAFOR is holding its 18th annual International Forest Products Markets in
conjunction with the 3rd annual Asian Housing Export Markets conference on September
24-26 at the Sea-Tac Marriott. The International Forest Products Markets conference
will include market outlooks for timber, logs, chips, and other forest products,
as well as a number of special topics. The Asian Housing Export Markets conference
will include overviews of leading destinations for wood frame housing and building
materials, advice about doing business in these markets, information about picking
joint venture partners, and successful export strategies of leading suppliers.
This year's conference themes will include: Macro-economic overview: will we
have a soft landing? Financial trends and timber values Economic outlook for
Asian markets Overview of log, lumber, panel, and chip markets Forest certification:
Regulations to retail markets Opportunities and obstacles in China and other
emerging markets Regulatory reform and economics in Japan, China, and Korea
For more information about the conference and to register see the conference
website at: http://www.cfr.washington.edu/outreach/ifpm/ifpmConference.htm
*****Business Operations*****
Per earlier notification Purchase Orders cut off date for this Biennium was
June 22 2001. The cut off dates for the following are as follows: Travel Expense
Vouchers 07/09/01 ISD/CTIs 07/16/01 Cash Transmittals 06/29/01 (Noon) Retroactive
Salary Transfers 07/13/01 Journal Vouchers 07/16/01 Any questions please contact
Joyce Johnson.
*****Canopy Crane*****
Report on Wind River Canopy Crane 7th Annual Science Conference The University
of Washington’s Wind River Canopy Crane Research Facility conducted its annual
science conference on June 20-22 at its field location just north of the Columbia
River Gorge near Carson, Washington. Over 100 scientists, resource managers,
teachers, and students from more than 20 educational institutions and resource
agencies attended the three days of meetings, some coming from as far away as
Great Britain and Japan. Scientists using the crane in their research are required
to attend the annual science meeting and report on their findings as well as
to listen to other reports on research at the crane site. This was the seventh
meeting since the crane became operational in 1995. The canopy research facility
is a collaborative effort among the University of Washington, US Forest Service
Pacific Northwest Research Station, and the Gifford Pinchot National Forest.
UW College of Forest Resources’ personnel actually operate large construction
crane, which is located in a 500-year-old Douglas-fir—western hemlock forest.
The crane is 285 feet tall and provides access to 5.6 acres of forest canopy.
There were 36 formal scientific reports and many other presentations at the
conference. A panel discussion involving scientists and forest managers was
a new feature of the conference. Scientific reports at this meeting covered
a broad range of topics about northwestern forest ecosystems from the ecology
of dwarf mistletoe, a parasitic plant that grows on western hemlock, to effects
of defoliating (leaf eating) insects. The carbon cycle and role of forests in
regulating greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide, was a major topic taking
up over half of the entire meeting. Much of the research at the crane facility
is funded by the U. S. Department of Energy’s Western Global Environmental Change
program. This research is focused on the carbon cycle of forests, including
the conditions under which forests absorb and store more carbon than they release.
The studies include comparisons of carbon uptake and storage in the old-growth
stand with younger forests in the same area. One notable trend in the research
at the site is that more of the studies are being conducted in young managed
forests (20- to 40-year-old) and mature (100- to 150-year old) stands on the
Wind River Experimental Forest in addition to 500-year-old forest at the crane
site itself. One objective of this expansion is to make the scientific studies
more relevant to the forest conditions that dominate much of the southern Washington
Cascade Range.
The Straight Grain Volume 5, Issue 3
Table of Contents
Calendar
Dean's Office
Staff Meeting Change
Congratulations
Crunch Time in Financial Services
Service Awards
Royalty Research Fund
Management and Engineering
Gearup Program
Computing News
Great Deals on Adobe Software
*****Calendar*****
Thursday, July 12 Jim Helfield will be defending his doctoral dissertation:
"Interactions of Salmon, Bear and Riparian Vegetation in Alaska" at 10:00am
in Rm 22 Anderson Hall.
*****Dean's Office*****
STAFF MEETING CHANGE
With so many people out of town now (and so many others very busy with year-end
and new biennium activities), the Staff meeting scheduled for Wednesday, July
11, is being postponed until September. Plan on donuts with the Dean on Tuesday,
September 18, 9:30 - 10:30.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Congratulations to Linda Brubaker and Doug Sprugel among the faculty and Phil
Higuera and Cara Nelson, graduate students. They each received recognition from
the undergraduate students they worked with who participated in the 2001 Undergraduate
Research symposium. The testimonials were included in a booklet published by
the Dean of Undergraduate Education, Fred Campbell.
CRUNCH TIME IN FINANCIAL SERVICES
Hooray! the biennium close is over! No, actually, it's not -- the folks in the
Business Office are still very busy and will be for another couple of weeks
as all of the deadlines are met. Let's make life easier for them by holding
off on routine transactions for a few weeks. Obviously, urgent business will
be dealt with promptly, but it will help take the pressure off if they aren't
bombarded by more routine things. Thanks to everyone involved with the end of
the biennium crunch -- your work makes it possible for the rest of us to do
our work!
SERVICE AWARDS
Clarification of Service Award announcement. In a recent Straight Grain, I asked
for anyone who had not received their anniversary Service Awards from the University
to contact me. Unfortunately, I neglected to clarify that the service awards
are part of the staff recognition program and are only applicable to permanent
classified or professional staff -- sorry, faculty members -- please be assured
that you are well appreciated, but the University doesn't have an anniversary
gift for you.
ROYALTY RESEARCH FUND
Royalty Research Fund: the next round of proposals are due Monday, September
24, 2001. See Sally Morgan for a copy of the application materials, or download
them from http://depts.washington.edu/or/orhome.html.
*****Management and Engineering*****
The Forest Club Room will host 45 students from Lower Yakima area Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday mornings. They will be taking course on Creativity & Innovation
from Profs. Allan and Royzen under the GEARUP program. This is part of an NSF
program to encourage kids at an early age from disadvantaged home backgrounds
to think of university based careers.
*****COMPUTING NEWS*****
GREAT DEALS ON ADOBE SOFTWARE
The University of Washington entered into a great program giving us substantial
discounts on Adobe products ( Adobe Writer, Photoshop etc...) Please contact
me prior to your purchase. I can save you lots of $$$$.
Example:
Adobe Acrobat 5.0 UW Bookstore $59.95 Our Cost is $19.71
Photoshop 6.0 UW Bookstore $299.95 Our Cost is $ 97.40
The big difference is that we buy licensing ONLY (no tech support or manuals)
Please let me know if I can help you with your technology purchases. -Marc Morrison
The Straight Grain Volume 5, Issue 4
Table of Contents
Dean's Office
News from the Arboretum
News from Pack Forest
Faculty Web Page Updates
*****Dean's Office*****
Acting Dean Bare will be on vacation until July 27th. See Associate Dean Bob
Edmonds for signatures; Sally Morgan is also available to help or schedule appointments.
*****Arboretum*****
The Arboretum has two new summer interns. Liz Burkholz, Arizona State University,
is working with Monica Ravin in the education department. She is developing
projects for the Saplings (K-8) projects. Ryan Garrison, Michigan State University
is working with Randall Hitchin in the curation office. Ryan is conducting a
field inventory of collection holdings in the northern part of the Arboretum.
Elaine Anderson, volunteer coordinator for the Arboretum Foundation, has broken
her right hand. It required major surgery and she will need a cast for at least
three months. Several people attended the annual meeting of the American Association
of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta in Denver, CO. including Randall Hitchin,
Monica Ravin, and Deborah Andrews, and John A. Wott.
*****Pack Forest*****
The Science in Tribal Education Program (STEP) utilized the Pack Forest facilities
and forest June 24 - July 1. In all 22 students participated in the program,
coordinated by Dr. Nan Little of the College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences and
Glen Yallup of the College of Forest Resources. The Pack Forest Conference Center
was extremely busy in June. Groups who were here covered a spectrum, ranging
from the Natural Resource Institute to Dr. Chuck Henry who, along with grad
students Karen Bergeron and Sean Smuckler held a three day restoration workshop.
Other groups included the Puyallup police dept, UW-Tacoma Education, the Federal
Restoration Workshop, the Washington State Recycling Association, the UW Orientation
Office and CFR CE Network 2000. Numerous forest tours were also conducted by
Donna Chapman, Pack's Information Specialist, for elementary schools, scouting
programs and outside groups.
*****Faculty Web Page Updates*****
Marianne Elliott (melliott@u...) is working on the CFR website this summer and
plans to update the faculty web pages. Some of you have asked how to change
or put new information on these pages. Check out your faculty web page (http://www.cfr.washington.edu/People/faculty.html
) and see if there are any changes you would like, then send it to her in email.
Here is the basic information that will appear on everyone's page: Name, title,
division, area of interest Address Phone/fax Email URL of your home page if
you have one (If you have a personal web page on one of the UW servers that
you would like linked to your CFR page) Photograph (if you want) Additional
info such as degrees, courses taught, research interests, current research projects,
and recent publications can be included if you don't have a web page with that
info on it and just want to do something simple on the CFR site.
The Straight Grain Volume 6, Issue 1
Table of Contents
Calendar
ONRC
Outreach
*****Calendar*****
Tuesday, July 31, 10:00 - 11:30, Forest Club room: Dr. Melih Boydak, visiting
professor from the University of Istanbul, Turkey will present: "Cedar of Lebanon
Forests of Turkey" Coffee and tea will be served. (More below under Outreach)
Thursday, August 2nd, 10:00 - 11:30, Forest Club room: Dr. Melih Boydak, visiting
professor from the University of Istanbul, Turkey will present: "Forestry in
Turkey." Coffee and tea will be served. (More below under Outreach) Friday August
10th, 7:30am - 9:00am, Faculty Club: Dr. Graham Allan presents "Creativity in
the Work Place." Professor Allan will talk about how to release your innate
creativity into the workplace and how this can make your job more fun and productive.
Registration is $9.75 before August 6, 2001, and is $15.00 after August 6th,
2001. You can register at http://www.washington.edu/admin/traindev/networkreg.html
*****ONRC*****
June Powers had major back surgery two weeks ago. The surgery went very well
and the prognosis is for a quick recovery. However, "quick" in this kind of
situation means about 3 months. Best wishes to June for a comfortable recuperation.
*****OUTREACH*****
ANOTHER FORM GOES LIVE ON THE CFR FORMS PAGE
The CFR Forms web page has a new addition, the monthly Leave Report. It is interactive
and ready to go at: http://www.cfr.washington.edu/Internal/Forms/forms.html
ENRICHMENT OPPORTUNITIES
The UW College of Forest Resources is hosting two free lectures to be given
my Dr. Melih Boydak, visiting professor from the University of Istanbul, Turkey.
Both lectures will be held from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM in the Byron and Alice
Lockwood Forest Club Room located in Anderson Hall, room 207, on the UW campus
in Seattle. Coffee and tea will be served. Reservations are not required. "Cedar
of Lebanon Forests of Turkey"- July 31, 2001 Cedar of Lebanon is a historic
and Biblical tree once found in much of the northeastern Mediterranean Sea area.
Except for a few remnants, it is now found primarily in the Taurus Mountains
of southern Asia Minor, Turkey. In these mountains there are several hundred
thousand acres of these forests, from young stands to thousand-year-old stands
with trees greater than 6 feet in diameter. Turkey is protecting these forests,
replanting them, and providing values to the local people who have lived among
them for thousands of years. Professor Boydak has been recognized internationally
for his work on restoring these forests using silvicultural methods. He will
show slides of the forests, the surrounding areas, and the practices used to
manage them so they are sustained for future generations. "FORESTRY IN TURKEY"
- August 2, 2001 Despite Hittite, Amazon, Phoenecian, Greek, Roman, Crusader,
Byzantine, and Turkish civilizations having inhabited Turkey for thousands of
years, Turkey has a diversity of forests that cover one fourth of the country.
The different forests resemble the forests of the United States. The varied
landscapes and climates-and lack of a recent Ice Age-has left an abundance of
species greater than in most of Europe. Professor Boydak has been recognized
internationally for his work in locating and protecting native plant diversity
and in enhancing these forests for a variety of commodity and non-commodity
values using silvicultural methods. He will show slides of the forests and the
practices used to manage them so they are useful to present generations and
sustained for future generations.
SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FORESTERS NATIONAL MEETING
The national SAF meeting is coming up fast: September 13-17, 2001, Adam's Mark
Hotel, Denver, Colorado. If you register on-line before July 31st your save
$50!. Nationally known author, historian, and McArthur Fellow Patricia Limerick
will share her knowledge as a longtime observer of Western history. Her keynote
address will set the stage for the many concurrent sessions dealing with issues
that are so critical to the interplay of resource management practices and the
ecology of public lands. Registration form on-line: https://www.safnet.org/commerce/convregform.htm
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT - OUTREACH NEWS
In case you missed it, check out the great articles written by Val Easton, Librarian
- CUH Miller Library, that appeared in the July 8th edition of "Pacific Northwest",
the magazine section of the Seattle Times. From the "Indispensable Plants" list
to the Passionate Fantasy" garden in Kirkland, you will certainly be impressed
at how Val, like many of our comrades at CUH, take the university to the people.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/pacificnw/2001/0708/