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John C. Withey

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Graduate Program on the Environment
The Evergreen State College
2700 Evergreen Parkway NW
Olympia, WA 98505


witheyj 'at' evergreen 'dot' edu
Lab 1 - 2013


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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.

Graduate Opportunities

The Master of Environmental Studies (MES) degree at Evergreen is an interdisciplinary degree designed to prepare you for the complex nature of professional environmental work. Visit our home page for more information. Applications for Fall 2023 are now open. The priority application deadline is November 30, 2022, but we also accept applications on a rolling basis into 2023 when space is available.

Favorite R blog and R graph gallery

ProfHacker (teaching blog through 2018)

Two good Climate science sites:
Real Climate
Skeptical Science


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