John C. Withey Graduate Program on the Environment
The Evergreen State College 2700 Evergreen Parkway NW Olympia, WA 98505 witheyj 'at' evergreen 'dot' edu Lab 1 - 2013 Evergreen home page |
News and Events
2023
I was invited to participate in a week-long "Deep Teaching Residency" in June. The residency brought 24 STEM faculty from around the U.S.A. to "...meaningfully transform faculty mindsets and practices. ‘Deep Teaching’ is an inclusive pedagogical philosophy that seeks to engage faculty in a critical evaluation of how instructor self-awareness, students’ personal histories, and broad social structures impact the development of an equitable pedagogy." A teaching case study, "Can Birds ‘Keep Up’ with Earlier Springs?" co-authored with Casey Youngflesh was published in the NCCSTS Collection. The case study is based on research into phenological shifts due to climate change, with exploration of the results from Youngflesh et al. (2021). 2022 As part of the Pheno-Mismatch project, I have a new co-authored paper out, "A novel model to accurately predict continental-scale timing of forest green-up," see Neupane et al. (2022). 2021 In February I gave a virtual seminar (recording available) at the UW's School of Environmental and Forest Sciences: "Wildlife responses to climate change, carbon pricing policies and forest landowner decisions in the Pacific Northwest", based on the work in Hashida et al. (2020). From Summer 2020 to Spring 2021 I was the Acting Director of the MES program. Find me on Google Scholar - ResearchGate - LinkedIn |
Current Research
As an ecologist it is my goal to collaborate across disciplines to understand the responses of native wildlife to land-use and climate change, especially in urban areas, in order to provide strategies for adaptation and mitigation. I use a combination of on-the-ground field studies, modeling and quantitative tools, and spatial analyses using GIS in my work.
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