School of Forest Resources
Faculty Meeting Minutes
December 13, 2011, 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Anderson Hall Room 22
CALL TO ORDER
The meeting was called to order at 10:30 a.m. by Tom Hinckley, Interim Director.
ATTENDANCE
PRESENT: Graham Allen, Bruce Bare, Susan Bolton, Gordon Bradley, Ivan Eastin, Frank Greulich, Robert
Harrison, Thomas Hinckley, Jay Johnson, Dorothy Paun, John Perez-Garcia, Clare Ryan, Douglas Sprugel, Stephen
West, Aaron Wirsing, Darlene Zabowski
ABSENT: James Agee*, Ernesto Alvarado, Stanley Asah, Jonathan Bakker, David Briggs, Sally Brown, Renata
Bura, Sharon Doty*, Robert Edmonds, Gregory Ettl, Kern Ewing, David Ford, Jerry Franklin, James Fridley, Robert
Gara*, Dean Glawe, Lisa Graumlich, Richard Gustafson, Charles Halpern, Kevin Hodgson, Soo-Hyung Kim, Joshua
Lawler, Bruce Lippke*, David Manuwal, John Marzluff, William McKean, Monika Moskal, David Peterson, Sergey
Rabotyagov, Sarah Reichard, Peter Schiess, Stuart Strand, Christian Torgersen, Sandor Toth, Eric Turnblom, Daniel
Vogt, Kristiina Vogt
ALSO ATTENDING: Nevada Smith, Fernando Resende
49 eligible to vote faculty during Autumn Quarter 2011.
*faculty member not eligible to vote Autumn Quarter 2011.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
• Call for nominations to serve on the School of Forest Resources Promotion, Merit, and Tenure Committee.
The person elected will serve through June 30, 2012, the remainder of David Briggs term on the Committee.
Dr. Briggs will retire on December 31, 2011. Nominations should be sent to Nevada by noon on
Wednesday January 4, 2012 for consideration at the January 10, 2012 Faculty Meeting. Very important.
Please consider carefully self-nominations and nominations.
• Work Planning Sessions are being scheduled during the Winter Break. Please respond to an email you
should have received from Nevada to schedule your appointment with Dr. Hinckley. David Campbell has
updated each faculty member’s database with the most current information available. The official link to
the database is: https://www.cfr.washington.edu/PMT/ You should update your teaching plans through
Autumn Quarter 2014. Accurate teaching plans assist time schedule preparation.
FACULTY ACTIONS
• Proposed Emeritus Professor appointment for David Briggs
Tom Hinckley moved and Graham Allan seconded the motion that David Briggs should be appointed as
Emeritus Professor. The faculty voted to approve this appointment. The results of the vote are on file in the
Director’s office.
• Proposed Visiting Associate Professor appointment for Guenther Carlos Krieger Filho
Doug Sprugel moved and Ivan Eastin seconded the motion that Guenther Carlos Krieger Filho be appointed
as a Visiting Associate Professor. This appointment is sponsored by Ernesto Alvarado. Dr. Filho is an
Associate Professor of thermodynamics and combustion at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He has
collaborated with Dr. Alvarado on an Amazon Forest Combustion project. During his sabbatical in SFR he
will work on fire fuel models and equations. The faculty voted to approve this appointment. The results of
the vote are on file in the Director’s office.
• Proposed Visiting Associate Professor appointment for Terumasa Takahashi
Tom Hinckley moved and Frank Greulich seconded the motion that Terumasa Takahashi be appointed as a
Visiting Associate Professor. This appointment is sponsored by Darlene Zabowski. Dr. Takahashi is an
Associate Professor in the School of Horticulture at Chiba University in Japan. His research focus includes
soil carbon sequestration, compost additions and biogeochemical processes in soils. It is anticipated that he
will cooperate on projects involving soil carbon and nitrogen. He plans to develop an urban soil project
while he is here. He may also provide seminars on his research. The faculty voted to approve this
appointment. The results of the vote are on file in the Director’s office.
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Proposed Tenure Award to Associate Professor Greg Ettl
Rob Harrison moved and Doug Sprugel seconded the motion that Greg Ettl be awarded tenure. The faculty
voted to approve this motion. The results of the vote are on file in the Director’s office.
PRESENTATION
No presentations are scheduled.
DISCUSSION
No discussion is scheduled.
UPCOMING MEETING
The next School of Forest Resources Faculty Meeting will be on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 from 10:30 to
11:30 a.m. in Anderson Hall Room 22.
ADJOURNMENT
The meeting was adjourned at 11:25 a.m.
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