Please join us for the UWT Environmental Seminar Monday! "Aquatic-terrestrial interactions at a time of global change" Carri LeRoy, Ph.D., Faculty in Environmental Studies, Co-Director, Sustainability in Prisons Project, The Evergreen State College Monday, October 13, 2014 SCI 309, 12:25-1:25pm Feel free to bring your lunch! The UWT Environmental Seminars are open to the public. Carri LeRoy is a freshwater ecologist who studies how riparian forests interact with streams and provide energy through leaf litterfall. Her research has shown that both the species diversity and genetic diversity of these litter inputs can affect in-stream leaf litter decomposition rates, aquatic fungi and aquatic macroinvertebrates. Her current research focuses on how leaf litter and salmon carcass inputs interact, what drives global patterns of leaf litter decomposition, and how genetic variation in Populus trichocarpa (black cottonwood) alters phytochemistry, leaf litter dynamics, and both stream and riparian forest ecosystem function. Cheers, Jim James E. Gawel, Ph.D. Assoc. Prof. of Environmental Chemistry and Engineering Environmental Science and Studies Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program University of Washington Tacoma 1900 Commerce St Campus Box 358436 Tacoma, WA 98402 Phone: 253-692-5815 E-mail: jimgawel@uw.edu