Region: North America
Yale Forest Forum Leadership Lunch Seminar
Marsh Hall Rotunda Lunch provided. Anthony Marcil President and CEO, Forest Stewardship Council of Canada "Boreal, Caribou and Mountain Pine Beetles - FSC Unites Them All" Antony G. Marcil joined FSC Canada in 2005 bringing a combination of private sector marketing and non-profit...
Yale Forest Forum Leadership Lunch Seminar
Talbot Trotter Northern Research Station Program, U.S. Forest Service Biological Control of Invasive Species: Efforts to Control The Hemlock Woolly Adelgid With Imported Beetles Talbot Trotter is a Research Ecologist with the USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station. His research...
Yale Forest Forum Leadership Lunch Seminar
Paul DeClay White Mountain Apache Tribal Forest Manager and Mary Stuever Burn Area Emergency Rehabilitation Coordinator for the White Mountain Apache Tribe Lessons Learned: White Mountain Apache Tribal Forestry and the Rodeo-Chediski Fire Paul DeClay, White Mountain Apache Tribal Forest...
The State of Forest Certification in North America from an SFI Perspective
Marsh Hall Rotunda 360 Prospect St. Food and Beverages Provided. Speaker: Bill Banzhaf President, Sustainable Forestry Board speaking on \"The State of Forest Certification in North America from an SFI Perspective\" Bill Banzahf is President of the Sustainable Forestry Board, the...
Yale Forest Forum Leadership Lunch Seminar
Sandra Anagnostakis Department of Plant Pathology and Ecology, The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station Chestnuts in this Century Sandra Anagnostakis has been working on chestnut blight disease since 1968. After completing basic studies with the fungus she imported virus-containing...
Podcast: It’s not easy being a frog
Why are deformities appearing in the frog population? Here professor David Skelly explain his research findings and why they may be important for human health.
Redistribution of Rainfall in Space and Time by Forest Canopies
Presented by: Richard Keim, Ph.D. School of Renewable Natural Resources, Louisiana State University Richard Keim is an Assistant Professor in the School of Renewable Natural Resources, Louisiana State University. His research interests include hydrology of forested wetlands and...Living with Oil and Gas: The Effects of Petroleum on Louisiana
This is part of a fall weekly lecture series focusing on the vulnerable Gulf coastal environment, and exploring the question of how the natural and built environments can coexist among the formidable forces of rising seas, coastal degradation, and the Mississippi River. Yale School of Forestry...Understanding Causes to Understand Remedy: Above Else, Do No Harm
Dr. Eugene Turner, Professor, Coastal Ecology Institute, Louisiana State University To understand the remedies, as in medicine, one should understand the causes of the disease. Further, the minimum demonstrable outcome of restoration (treatment) should be to cause no harm to the marsh...Keynote: Lessons from Katrina: Will crisis bring about significant policy changes that address coastal vulnerability?
This is part of a fall weekly lecture series focusing on the vulnerable Gulf coastal environment, and exploring the question of how the natural and built environments can coexist among the formidable forces of rising seas, coastal degradation, and the Mississippi River. Yale School of Forestry...From Spark to Flame—The Public Interest Role in Coastal Restoration and the Future of South Louisiana
This is part of a fall weekly lecture series focusing on the vulnerable Gulf coastal environment, and exploring the question of how the natural and built environments can coexist among the formidable forces of rising seas, coastal degradation, and the Mississippi River. Yale School of Forestry...Sustainability of Louisiana Coastal Wetland Forests
Dr. Richard F. Keim, Assistant Professor, School of Renewable Natural Resources, Louisiana State University. Changing hydrological conditions in deltaic swamp forests have resulted from flood control measures on the Mississippi River. The result is degradation of productivity and regeneration...A Sustainable Coastal Louisiana: What will it take to get there?
Dr. Denise J. Reed, Professor, Department of Earth & Environmental Science, University of New Orleans The lecture will outline recent and current plans to restore the coast, highlighting how restoration decisions are made and the role of science in informing them. Various options will be...Anatomy of a Disaster, What We Learned from Katrina
Dr. Lewis E. Link, Senior Research Engineer, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, and currently serving as Director, Interagency Performance Evaluation Task Force. What happened during Katrina was the result of decisions and actions taken over decades. Change,...
Surveying For Endangered Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep
2006 Student Internship Maya Leonard-Cahn Internship Host: California Department of Fish and Game, Sierra Nevada Region, CA Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep are considered one of the rarest mammals in North America. Grazing, hunting, and habitat loss have driven this species to near extinction. ...
Use Attainability Analysis Fieldwork in Missouri
2006 Student Internship As part of my summer internship at Tetra Tech, I was sent out for some field work in Missouri to conduct a Use Attainability Analysis on watersheds throughout Missouri as part of a contract with EPA. Tetra Tech is the largest U.S. consulting firm in treatment,...Losing Land: Underlying Geologic and Anthropomorphic Vulnerabilities of the Louisiana Coast Revealed By Geodetic Studies
Dr. Roy Dokka, Director of Louisiana Spatial Reference Center, and the Center for GeoInformatics, Louisiana State UniversityAlligators, Muskrats, Oil, Hurricanes and People: The Changing Louisiana Coastal Landscape
Dr. Don Davis, Research Professor, Louisiana Applied Oil Spill Research and Development Program, Louisiana State University Louisiana’s sea-level citizens have learned to live and adapt to subsidence, sea-level rise, hurricane-induced storm surges, and coastal land loss/erosion. These...
Punctuated Equilibrium and the Dynamics of U.S. Environmental Policy
Although many environmental policy issues remain deadlocked for decades with little movement, sometimes breakthroughs occur abruptly. Why do deadlocks persist? Why do major policy shifts occur infrequently? Is it possible to judge when policies are ripe for change? This book presents new...Conservationists Thinking Big to Save the Last Great Places
At last, in response, the uppercase-C Conservation community has decided to eschew little plans for big ones. Now come staggering proposals to protect vast swaths of land many times larger and morecomplex than the world’s greatest national parks. On such a scale, it is no longer enough to draw...
Developing Industrial Ecosystems
Part I: Tools From Industrial Ecology
Species and Ecosystem Conservation
Timothy W. Clark, Michael J. Stevenson, Kim Ziegelmayer, Murray B. Rutherford, Editors Order a print copyCarbon trading won’t work
| Michael Dorsey
Originally in the LA Times earlier this month... Carbon trading won’t work Experiments with the market scheme favored by Schwarzenegger shows trading favors big polluters without curbing global warming gases. By Michael K. Dorsey MICHAEL K. DORSEY, assistant professor on Dartmouth...SAGE Magazine Volume II, Issue I
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This is SAGE's third magazine. For more information contact sagemagazine@yale.edu
