School of Environmental and Forest Sciences
Faculty Meeting Agenda
May 28, 2013, 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Anderson Hall Room 22
CALL TO ORDER
10:30
• Call to order by Associate Director Steve West at 10:35 a.m. Bruce Bare moved and John Marzluff
seconded the motion that the faculty approve the minutes of the May 14, 2013 Faculty Meeting. The faculty
voted to approve the minutes by a vote of 31 Approve, 0 Oppose, 5 Abstain of 40 eligible to vote faculty.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
10:35
• SEFS Graduation is on Friday June 14, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. in Kane Hall Room 120. A reception will follow
in the SEFS Courtyard.
• The meeting schedule for the 2013-2014 Academic Year is:
MEETING DATE
LOCATION (BLDG. & ROOM #)
TIME
October 8, 2013
Anderson Hall Room 22
10:30-11:30 a.m.
October 22, 2013
Anderson Hall Room 22
10:30-11:30 a.m.
November 12, 2013
Anderson Hall Room 22
10:30-11:30 a.m.
November 26, 2013
Anderson Hall Room 22
10:30-11:30 a.m.
December 10, 2013
Anderson Hall Room 22
10:30-11:30 a.m.
December 17, 2013
Anderson Hall Room 22
10:30-11:30 a.m.
January 14, 2014
Anderson Hall Room 22
10:30-11:30 a.m.
January 28, 2014
Anderson Hall Room 22
10:30-11:30 a.m.
February 11, 2014
Anderson Hall Room 22
10:30-11:30 a.m.
February 25, 2014
Anderson Hall Room 22
10:30-11:30 a.m.
March 11, 2014
Anderson Hall Room 22
10:30-11:30 a.m.
March 25, 2014
Anderson Hall Room 22
10:30-11:30 a.m.
April 8, 2014
Anderson Hall Room 22
10:30-11:30 a.m.
April 22, 2014
Anderson Hall Room 22
10:30-11:30 a.m.
May 13, 2014
Anderson Hall Room 22
10:30-11:30 a.m.
May 27, 2014
Anderson Hall Room 22
10:30-11:30 a.m.
FACULTY ACTIONS
10:45
• Proposed Curriculum Change
Doug Sprugel moved and Eric Turnblom seconded the motion that the faculty consider the recommendation
of the SEFS Curriculum Committee to approve changing the name of SEFS 529 “Water Center Seminar” to
“School of Environmental and Forest Sciences Seminar.” With the closing of the Water Center several
years ago, the content of this seminar has changed. A title that reflects our School name would be
appropriate for this course. Also, because of the content shift, we are requesting to remove the joint listings
with the School of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences and the Evans School of Public Affairs. The faculty
voted to approve this change by a vote of 31 Approve, 0 Oppose, 5 Abstain of 40 eligible to vote faculty.
• Proposed Curriculum Change
It is the recommendation of the SEFS Curriculum Committee that the faculty approve combining two
options in the Environmental Science and Resource Management Major. The Landscape Ecology and
Conservation Option has been poorly enrolled and has significant overlap with our Wildlife Conservation
Option. We would like to combine these two options and rename it “Wildlife Ecology and Conservation.”
Consideration of this recommendation was dropped because the proposed change requires the
Reorganization, Consolidation, or Elimination of Programs (RECP) process to be undertaken.
• Proposed Elected Faculty Advisory Council (EFAC) Members
Bruce Bare moved and Doug Sprugel seconded the motion that the faculty consider the following
nominations for Elected Faculty Advisory Council (EFAC) membership: Susan Bolton, Clare Ryan Ivan
Eastin, Sandor Toth John Perez-Garcia, and Aaron Wirsing. Clare Ryan and Aaron Wirsing were elected to
serve.
• Proposed Curriculum Committee Members
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Bruce Bare moved and Sarah Reichard seconded the motion that the faculty consider the following faculty
nominations for Curriculum Committee membership: Renata Bura, Fernando Resende, Kern Ewing, Aaron
Wirsing, and Rob Harrison. Renata Bura and Kern Ewing were elected to serve.
Proposed Promotion, Merit, and Tenure Committee (PMT) Members
Bruce Bare moved and Doug Sprugel seconded the motion that the faculty consider the following
nominations for Promotion, Merit, and Tenure Committee membership: Rob Harrison, Sandor Toth, Josh
Lawler, and Kristiina Vogt. Josh Lawler and Sandor Toth were elected to serve.
Proposed Adjunct Associate Professor Appointment
Rob Harrison moved and Eric Turnblom seconded the motion that David Stokes be appointed as an Adjunct
Associate Professor. This appointment is sponsored by Sarah Reichard. Dr. Stokes is an Associate
Professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington, Bothell.
Dr. Stokes received his Ph.D. from the Department of Zoology at the University of Washington in 1994.
Dr. Stokes began his career at Sonoma State University and returned to the University of Washington in
2006. He has lectured in SEFS and provided information to a graduate student. He would like to begin
advising more graduate students, which is difficult to do at the Bothell campus. He would like to become
involved with the Restoration Ecology Network and continue to work on invasive English holly. The
faculty voted to approve this appointment. The results of the vote are on file in the Director’s office.
Proposed Affiliate Assistant Professor Appointment
Bruce Bare moved and Doug Sprugel seconded the motion that Ryan Haugo be appointed as an Affiliate
Assistant Professor. This appointment is sponsored by Charlie Halpern. Dr. Haugo is a Forest Ecologist
with the Nature Conservancy in Yakima, Washington. Dr. Haugo received his Ph.D. from the School of
Forest Resources at the University of Washington in 2010. Dr. Haugo hopes to facilitate student access to
hands-on learning with projects that are in place near Yakima and also coastal Washington. He would like
to lead field tours and facilitate senior capstones or graduate thesis research. He also hopes to provide
students access to internships, assistantships, and mentoring opportunities in the Nature Conservancy. He
would also like to serve on Graduate Student Committees. The faculty voted to approve this appointment.
The results of the vote are on file in the Director’s office.
Proposed Emeritus Professor Faculty Appointment
Steve West moved and Bruce Bare seconded the motion that the faculty approve the appointment of
Douglas Sprugel as Emeritus Professor. Dr. Sprugel received his Ph.D. in 1974 and has been at the
University of Washington since 1983. He began as a Senior Research Associate, in 1987 became a
Research Associate Professor, and finally a Professor WOT in 1990. During his career at the University of
Washington he carried out research on a wide range of topics including disturbance ecology, physiological
ecology, paleoecology, and restoration ecology. He collaborated with many SEFS faculty and was awarded
grants from NSF, USDA, EPA, and several smaller agencies. He has published over 50 articles in refereed
journals. Although his position did not require formal teaching, he has taught a variety of seminar courses
such as SEFS 567 Topics in Advanced Ecology and he has served on numerous graduate student
committees. He has served the University in the Faculty Senate and on the Graduate School Council and he
served on the College of the Environment College Council. On the national level he served on the grant
review panel for the USDA National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program Ecosystem Science
Panel and has been an officer in the Ecological Society of America. He currently serves on 3 Ph.D.
committees and will continue to be involved with the Master of Science in Biology for Teachers program as
it transitions to a program in the College of the Environment. The faculty voted to approve this
appointment. The results of the vote are on file in the Director’s office.
Graduate Faculty Appointment
Ivan Eastin moved and Bruce Bare seconded the motion that Professor Doug Sprugel be appointed as a
member of the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences Graduate Faculty with endorsement to chair
supervisory committees. This appointment will begin on June 16, 2013, the day after Dr. Sprugel’s
retirement. The appointment will be for five years with the option to renew. The faculty voted to approve
this appointment. The results of the vote are on file in the Director’s office.
Proposed Emeritus Professor Faculty Appointment
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Ivan Eastin moved and Bruce Bare seconded the motion that the faculty approve the appointment of Steve
West as Emeritus Professor. Dr. West arrived at the College of Forest Resources in June 1979 as a
Research Assistant Professor. He moved to tenure track in 1985, and was promoted to Professor in 2002.
His research has focused on the responses of wildlife communities to timber harvest. He worked on the
Forest Service’s Old-Growth Forest Project and subsequent Forest Ecosystem Management deliberations,
and continued with Washington State’s Timber, Fish, and Wildlife riparian management zone and landscape
projects, and culminated with the Forest Service’s Demonstration of Ecosystem Options project. These
large scale projects informed forest management on federal as well as state and private lands, notably the
“President’s Plan” for federal lands and Washington’s Forests and Fish regulations. He began teaching the
field-oriented course Wildlife Research Techniques in 1990 which continues to this day, contributed to
team-taught courses over the years, and offered many guest lectures in a variety of courses. His 40 graduate
students now hold academic positions nationally and internationally, leadership positions in local, state, and
national agencies, and in private enterprise. He has had memberships in several organizations and held
leadership roles in the Washington Chapter of the Wildlife Society, American Society of Mammalogists,
and the Society for Northwestern Vertebrate Biology, and has had consultancies with 21 organizations. His
primary service, however, has been with the School: CFR Associate Dean 2002-04, CFR Associate Dean
for Academic Affairs 2004-09, SFR Associate Director 2009-12, and SEFS Interim and Associate Director
2012-13. He also served as the inaugural Chair of the College of the Environment Curriculum Committee
from 2009-11. The faculty voted to approve this appointment. The results of the vote are on file in the
Director’s office.
• Graduate Faculty Appointment
Ivan Eastin moved and Bruce Bare seconded the motion that Professor Steve West be appointed as a
member of the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences Graduate Faculty with endorsement to chair
supervisory committees. This appointment will begin on October 2, 2013, the day after Dr. West’s
retirement. The appointment will be for five years with the option to renew.
PRESENTATION
• The Curriculum Committee has developed a list of courses with recommended core course prerequisites.
The list is attached. The Curriculum Committee is recommending the prereqs so that students take the core
courses first. ESRM 200 and 201 have been listed for appropriate courses. Core courses are limited to our
program but students in other programs can still register for SEFS upper level courses. Prereqs are required
now at UW for 400 level courses. Faculty expressed the desire to customize the lists. If a faculty member
has a different idea of what he or she would like listed for one of their 400 level courses, please let Michelle
Trudeau know. This is an information item. If there are no issues with this, student services will go ahead
and enter the listed prerequisites. If issues arise then the Curriculum Committee will take them up.
DISCUSSION
11:00
• No discussions are planned.
UPCOMING MEETING
11:25
There is a special meeting on June 11, 2013. The next regular School of Environmental and Forest Sciences
Faculty Meeting will be on Tuesday, October 8, 2013 from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. in Anderson Hall Room 22.
ADJOURNMENT
11:30
The meeting was adjourned at 11:30 a.m.
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