School of Environmental and Forest Sciences
Faculty Meeting Agenda
January 10, 2012, 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Anderson Hall Room 22
CALL TO ORDER
10:30
Call to order at 10:32 a.m. by Tom Hinckley, Interim Director. Approval of the minutes of the November 22,
2011 and December 13, 2011 Faculty Meetings.
ATTENDANCE
PRESENT: Bruce Bare, Gordon Bradley, Sharon Doty, Robert Edmonds, Greg Ettl, Jerry Franklin, Rob Harrison,
Tom Hinckley, Kevin Hodgson, Josh Lawler, John Marzluf, John Perez-Garcia, Clare Ryan, Eric Turnblom, Dan
Vogt, Kristiina Vogt, Steve West, Darlene Zabowski
ABSENT: James Agee*, Graham Allan, Ernesto Alvarado, Stanley Asah, Jonathan Bakker, David Briggs*, Sally
Brown, Renata Bura, Sharon Doty, Kern Ewing, David Ford, James Fridley, Robert Gara*, Dean Glawe, Lisa
Graumlich, Frank Greulich, Richard Gustafson, Charles Halpern, Jay Johnson, Soo-Hyung Kim, Bruce Lippke*,
David Manuwal*, William McKean*, Monika Moskal, Dorothy Paun, David Peterson, Sergey Rabotyagov, Sarah
Reichard, Peter Schiess, Doug Sprugel, Stuart Strand, Christian Torgersen, Sandor Toth
ALSO ATTENDING: Nevada Smith, Michelle Trudeau, Vincent Gallucci
48 eligible to vote faculty during Winter Quarter 2011.
*faculty member not eligible to vote Winter Quarter 2011.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
10:35
• We are now the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences. Our website is being updated, administrators
of School center and program websites have been notified to update the use of the School name, Student
Services is updating the time schedule and other academic information, and a postcard to alumni and friends
is being prepared that will include an announcement of the name change. Here is the URL linking to
updated stationery and envelope templates:
http://www.cfr.washington.edu/sfrTools/forms/SEFSLetterheadTemplate.doc
http://www.cfr.washington.edu/sfrTools/forms/SEFSEnvelope.pdf
Soon we will have two new sub-domains:
sefs.washington.edu and sefs.uw.edu
Any industry folks who want to visit the school have an open invitation.
• Faculty and staff have been asked to serve on an ad hoc committee that will explore Alternative and
Emerging Instructional Approaches. Delivery techniques. There will be an open solicitations of ideas.
This committee was formed as a result of identified task #3 from the 2011 Strategic Planning Retreat. The
people who will serve on the committee are Dean Glawe (Chair), Graham Allan, Bruce Bare, Renata Bura,
David Campbell, Jim Fridley, Jerry Franklin, Rob Harrison, Kevin Hodgson, Matt McLaughlin, and Sarah
Reichard.
• Monika Moskal and Soo-Hyung Kim have agreed to extend their tenure on the Computing and IT
Committee. Monika will serve until 6/30/2013 and Soo will serve until 6/30/2014.
• Wednesday, January 11, 2012, REI Seattle, 6:30-8:30 p.m., “Elwha River Restoration Status and Science,”
Jerry Freilich, Olympic National Park; and Jeffrey Duda, U.S. Geological Survey. Tom will give
presentation on Old Growth Trees at REI at the end of January.
• The Winter Quarter Lecture is scheduled for Thursday March 1, 2012 will feature Eric Dinerstein of the
World Wildlife Fund. Please hold the date.
• Future Forestry Leaders Symposium, Friday, February 24 to Saturday, February 25, 2012, Vancouver, BC,
University of British Columbia, “A Graduate Student Research Symposium Celebrating the International
Year of the Forest.” Ivan Eastin helped coordinate this event, please see him if you want to attend or have
any questions about the event. This finishes the International Year of the Forest.
• There are several viable candidates for the Director position. The visits will begin in March.
• Innovative Sciences Degree announcement by Steve see his hand-out. For folks who teach science in
secondary education. None of the courses have prereqs. Only 50 students will be accepted into the program
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so it should not swell our numbers. Courses cannot be specialized and should be broad-brush. PDF of
proposed curriculum should be sent.
FACULTY ACTIONS
10:45
• Proposed Promotion, Merit, and Tenure Committee (PMT) Member
John Marzluff moved and Bob Edmonds seconded the motion that the following faculty be considered for
Promotion, Merit, and Tenure Committee membership:
Josh Lawler
Kristiina Vogt
Josh Lawler was elected to serve on the PMT Committee. The results of the vote are on file in the
Director’s office.
• Proposed Lecturer, part-time appointment for Stephen Scherba
Eric Turnblom moved Bruce Bare seconded the motion that Stephen Scherba be considered as a Lecturer,
part-time. This appointment is sponsored by Tom Hinckley and Vincent Gallucci. The duration of the
appointment will be for one quarter. Mr. Scherba received his masters from the Biomathematics Group
(now QERM) at the University of Washington in 1975. In 1978 he completed all course work and written
qualifying examinations for a Ph.D. in Physiology and Biophysics at the UW in 1978, and he received a
M.B.A. from the UW’s Foster School of Business in Finance in 1981. Mr. Scherba will teach Q Sci 291
(analysis for Biologists 1) winter quarter 2012. The scheduled instructor was a SFR faculty member who
decided that he could not teach the class. The faculty voted to approve this appointment. The results of the
vote are on file in the Director’s office.
• Proposed Research Associate appointment for Jennifer Duggan
Tom Hinckley moved Bruce Bare seconded the motion that Jennifer Duggan be considered for a Research
Associate appointment. This appointment is sponsored by Josh Lawler. Dr. Duggan received her Ph.D.
from the Department of Animal Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in December of
2011. Dr. Duggan will work on a Department of Defense-funded project subcontracted to the University of
Washington through Stanford University. Dr. Duggan will develop habitat and habitat-threat models for
multiple species using existing data and she will work with economists at Stanford to evaluate the relative
costs and benefits of pro-actively protecting species on base versus mitigating on-base losses with the
purchase of off-base habitat. She will be co-supervised by Josh Tewksbury. The appointment is expected
to last for 2 years. She will either be housed in Winkenwerder Hall or Kincaid Hall and will require no
additional resources. The faculty voted to approve this appointment. The results of the vote are on file in
the Director’s office.
• Proposed Research Associate appointment for Jennifer McGuire
Tom Hinckley moved and Bruce Bare seconded the motion that Jennifer McGuire be considered for a
Research Associate appointment. This appointment is sponsored by Josh Lawler. Dr. McGuire received her
Ph.D. from the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California-Berkeley in 2010. Dr.
McGuire will work on several projects including a national wildlife connectivity analysis funded by the
Packard Foundation and an analysis of one approach to conservation planning for climate change funded by
Yale University. She will be housed in Winkenwerder Hall and will require no additional resources. This
appointment has the potential to continue for 2 years. The faculty voted to approve this appointment. The
results of the vote are on file in the Director’s office.
• Proposed Research Associate appointment for Chad Wilsey
Tom Hinckley moved and Bob Edmonds seconded the motion that Chad Wilsey be considered for a
Research Associate appointment. This appointment is sponsored by Josh Lawler. Dr. Wilsey received his
Ph.D. from the School of Forest Resources in Landscape Ecology at the University of Washington in
December 2011. Dr. Wilsey will work on a USGS-funded project investigating the vulnerability to climate
change of species and ecological systems in the Pacific Northwest. Dr. Wilsey will develop models to
assess the potential responses of 10-20 animal species to climate change in the Pacific Northwest. Funding
is available for this position for at least a year. He will be housed in Winkenwerder Hall and will require no
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additional resources. The faculty voted to approve this appointment. The results of the vote are on file in
the Director’s office.
PRESENTATION
Gordon Bradley will provide an update regarding the Faculty Portfolio process. He stated that the process is
similar to what we have done before. The information the process provides puts the director in a good position
to negotiate with the Dean for what we need showing how it fits in SEFS and the CoEnv. It’s in our best
interest to work in advance so that we are positioned to take advantage of opportunities. What are issues of
consequence that might position us to take next steps?
Small focus groups met to draft a list of opportunity areas. Inventory of the tenured faculty in terms of
disciplines was presented. When considering the portfolio, faculty should probably think about cross
fertilization funding that serves our community locally and globally. Are there other ways to look at this? It’s
conceivable in the next 5 years that about 1/3 of the current faculty will retire. What the nomination form asks
is to name the position and type of faculty that is appropriate (research, lecturer, state funded, tenure track, etc.).
The portfolios can be nominated by faculty groups or individuals. Think about relating positions to one or more
opportunity areas.
An announcement will be sent out to say nominations are open. Faculty will have a period of time to develop.
There will be a faculty meeting to discuss each nomination, then a ranking exercise, the director can then revise
to be ready to negotiate with Dean. Please think about the kinds of people to bring on board and how they
would fit in the current faculty profile and how they would fit in to the College and UW.
Suggest broad strengths we’d like to build upon, no need to submit a fully developed portfolio. Let’s recognize
that the portfolios are not timeless. Faculty often have a bias toward disciplinarity. How do we write the job
description? Having many different positions will allow us to cast a wide net. Where are the areas that we
think we want to go? Can they be couched in terms of ABB impact, how it affects our future funding? The
long form speaks to the areas where ABB is important (teaching and research). Some of the positions could be
research. This is the traditional way we have thought about the positions. Map our skill sets then cross link
with the opportunity areas.
DISCUSSION
No discussion is scheduled.
UPCOMING MEETING
10:50
The next School of Forest Resources Faculty Meeting will be on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 from 10:30 to
11:30 a.m. in Anderson Hall Room 22.
ADJOURNMENT
10:55
Attachments: Mr. Scherba’s appointment package
Dr. Duggan’s appointment package
Dr. McGuire’s appointment package
Dr. Wilsey’s appointment package
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