Ecology, Ecosystems and Biodiversity
Cane Toads Gaining Ground in Australia
The cane toad’s (Bufo marinus) increasing ability to invade Australia is revealed by a dynamically updated range modelYale Forest Forum Leadership Lunch Seminar
04.19.07 MONDAY in SAGE HALL, ROOM 24 YFF Lunch with Bastiaan Louman Lunch provided "Forest Certification as a Policy Supporting Tool in Latin America" Bastiaan Louman obtained a MSc Degree from the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands, and is associate researcher at CATIE in Costa...Yale Forest Forum Leadership Lunch Seminar
04.19.07 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
02.27.07 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
02.27.07 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...
Yale Forest Forum Leadership Lunch Seminar
01.23.07 Please join the Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry for our first ever Yale Forest Forum Lunch Videoconference. Food and Beverages Provided. Franck Lecocq Deputy Director of the Laboratory of Forestry Economics, Nancy, France. "The Clean Development Mechanism: Status and Prospects,...
Yale Forest Forum Leadership Lunch Seminar
11.30.06 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
10.23.06 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...
Stephen Kellert Wins Research Award
10.05.06 Contact: David DeFusco david.defusco@yale.edu Director of Communications (203) 436-4842A Sustainable Coastal Louisiana: What will it take to get there?
09.26.06 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...
Interested in biodiversity conservation in the Andes-Amazon region?
09.18.06 Moore fellows will receive funds to cover full tuition and a modest stipend for all three years of the program. In addition, they will receive funds for at least one summer internship to be carried out with a Moore Foundation grantee organization in the Andes-Amazon region.
Surveying For Endangered Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep
09.11.06 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. ...
Rhizophora
09.11.06 2006 Student Internship: Diagnostic of community fishing groups in the Mesoamerican Reef Region for the establishment of Community Management of Marine Resources: Models and Methodology Valentina Giannini Internship Host: Mesoamerican Reef Fund, Guatemala My host organization allowed me to...Alligators, Muskrats, Oil, Hurricanes and People: The Changing Louisiana Coastal Landscape
09.05.06 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...Prestigious Yale Prize Awarded to Recent Graduate
06.27.06 John Tuxill, who received a Ph.D. from Yale's environment school last December, has been awarded Yale’s prestigious John Addison Porter Prize for his dissertation, “Agrarian Change and Crop Diversity in Mayan Milpas of Yucatan, Mexico: Implications for In Situ Conservation.” ...Conservationists Thinking Big to Save the Last Great Places
06.12.06 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...Course Descriptions - Ecology
06.05.06 Ecology Ecosystem Ecology F&ES 32001b, Methods of Ecosystem Analysis. 3 credits. This course exposes students to ecosystem-level questions; demonstrates field-data collection and laboratory analyses; emphasizes data manipulation on the microcomputer; and introduces professional data...Class of 2006 holds environmentally friendly graduation
05.26.06 New Haven, Conn. -- In a display of their environmental ideals and values, the 2006 graduates of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies held a commencement program that minimized climate-changing gases and solid waste. Eight hundred pounds of waste generated from a post-graduation...Gift to Yale to Promote Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Forests
05.25.06 New Haven, Conn.—An environmental leadership and training program to promote biodiversity conservation in tropical forests in Asia and Central and South America has been established at Yale University with a $4.8 million gift from the Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund. “Worldwide...
Young Conservationists and the Future of Protected Areas Worldwide
05.18.06 32 pages, 2003 Order a print copy
Protecting Biodiversity
05.18.06 Elizabeth A.Gordon, Oscar E.Franco and Mary L.Tyrrell Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies 168 pages, 2005 Order a print copy
Model Shows Amazon Conservation Strategies Inadequate
05.18.06 Simulations of future Amazon deforestation show that current conservation strategies focusing on protected areas are insufficient, according to a report published March 22 in the journal Nature. Researchers at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Woods Hole Research Center, Instituto de...
The Atlantic Sea Scallop Fishery in the U.S. and Canada
05.18.06 A Yale F&ES Discussion Paper Robert Repetto Professor in the Practice of Economics and Sustainable Development Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies 22 pages, 2001 Order a print copy
The LAND Code
05.18.06 EDITORS Diana Balmori, Yale School of Architecture Gaboury Benoit, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies This working paper is no longer available. It has been updated and expanded and published as a book by Wiley. Click here to order the book.
