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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 Raphaële Préget Laboratory of Forest Economics, Nancy, France Timber Auctions and Stumpage Appraisal: Some Perspectives from French Public Sales Raphaële Préget is a Researcher at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), Laboratory of Forest Economics, Nancy,...
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
02.16.07 Dan Perlman Associate Professor of Biology and Chair, Environmental Studies Program, Brandeis University Early Days at the Yale School of Forestry: A Pictorial History of the 1913 and 1914 Field Seasons
Biophilic Design: Opening the Door to Nature
02.01.07 New Podcast: Stephen Kellert, Tweedy Ordway Professor of Social Ecology, explains the concept of biophilia, which is the inherent human affinity for the natural environment, and how it relates to built environment. According to Professor Kellert, isolation and alienation from the natural world in...
Yale Forest Forum Leadership Lunch Seminar
01.31.07 Please join the Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry for our weekly Yale Forest Forum Lunch. Food and Beverages Provided. Michael Virga Acting Executive Director, Forestry Sector, American Forest & Paper Association "Global Forest Policy: An Industry Perspective" As Acting...
Yale Forest Forum Leadership Lunch Seminar
01.31.07 Please join the Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry for our weekly Yale Forest Forum Lunch. Food and Beverages Provided. Brett Butler Research Forester with the Forest Inventory & Analysis Unit of the USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station "Understanding and Researching...
Yale Forest Forum Leadership Lunch Seminar
01.31.07 Please join the Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry for our weekly Yale Forest Forum Lunch. Food and Beverages Provided. Lars Gulbrandsen Doctoral Research Fellow at Harvard’s Center for International Development and Senior Research Fellow at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in...
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,...Index Ranks Yale Forestry Program Best in Research Productivity
01.22.07 The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies has the best forestry program in the United States based on the research productivity of its faculty, according to a recently released index. “For a hundred years, this school has been a leader in forest research and training and, with...
The State of Forest Certification in North America from an SFI Perspective
01.12.07 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...Gift from Alumnus Provides Scholarships to Students from Puerto Rico
12.19.06 New Haven, Conn.—Two Yale graduate students from Puerto Rico have received the Victor Luis Gonzalez Scholarship to study forest management and environmental education at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. The scholarship recipients are Jorge Figueroa, a native of...
Africa Network: Links
12.11.06 People & Organizations Alumni/ae Events Community Postings Publications Links Photo Gallery Online Access to Research in the Environment Tropical Resources Institute Yale and the World — Africa Yale Council on African Studies Yale...
Interactive Map: Climate Change and GDP
12.06.06 Professor Robert Mendelsohn's study, "Dynamic Forecasts of the Sectoral Impacts of Climate Change," utilizes results from climate impact analyses to project how future climate scenarios will affect each country in the world. The study has looked at the impacts on agriculture, coasts, energy,...
Global Forests Focus of Yale Executive Education Program
12.05.06 An executive education program that will focus on the condition and dynamics of global forests will be offered in the spring of 2007 by Yale University’s Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry. The program, which will consist of two week-long courses in March and April at Yale...
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...
Agroecología y la Lucha para la Soberanía Alimentaria en las Américas
11.14.06 Order a print copy This is the Spanish language version of a book published in two languages. Go to this title in English
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.
Doctoral Student Receives Rolex Award for Snow Leopard Conservation
11.02.06 Doctoral student Shafqat Hussain has been chosen to receive a Rolex Award for his work on the conservation of the snow leopard in northern Pakistan. This prestigious award supports “exceptional men and women who are breaking new ground in areas which advance human knowledge and...Developing World Gaining Access to Environmental Research
A collaborative initiative to help reduce great disparities in scientific resources between developed and developing nations.China and the Environment: The Impact of NGOs, Culture and Growth
10.31.06 Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall 205 Prospect St., New Haven Xiaoyi (Sheri) Liao, the Chinese environmental ambassador to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Committee and one of China’s best-known environmental activists and journalists, founded and is president of the Global Village of Bejing, a...
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...Morphodynamics of Deltas under the Influence of Humans
10.20.06 Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall 205 Prospect Street New Haven, Connecticut Lecture open to the university community. Abstract: Hundreds of millions of people occupy river deltas, and human engineering through flood control and irrigation...
Green Wave Sweeping Business World
10.18.06 Leading companies are discovering that thinking “green” can generate great value for their brands and do wonders for the bottom line, asserts a new Yale book, Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value and Build Competitive Advantage. “A...
Yale Journal Identifies Products and Activities with Greatest Environmental Impact
10.12.06 Cutting-edge research identifying the types of products that cause the most environmental damage is the focus of a special issue of Yale’s Journal of Industrial Ecology. The activities and product groups that cause 70 percent to 80 percent of the total environmental impact in society are...
