Profiles / Features


  1. Sifting Through the ‘Noise’ To Assess Health of Tropical Forests

    Some of the things that made Prof. Liza Comita want to study tropical forests in the first place are the same things that can make it a rather daunting field of research. And they raised some of the questions she has been trying to answer during more than a decade as researcher and professor.

  4. High-Wire Science: Blogging from the Forest Canopy

    In the forest canopy of the Panamanian rainforest, F&ES doctoral student Kevin McLean is documenting the “canopy highways” that tree-dwelling animals use to get around. His findings may help conservationists protect species that are rarely seen and can be nearly impossible to study.

  6. Capitalizing on Opportunity

    As an F&ES student, Jim Lyons ’79 M.F. was advised to branch out and take classes that didn’t focus on just forestry. After 40 years in education, conservation, and politics, the Distinguished Alumni Award winner reflects on how important that advice has been for his career.

  8. Former F&ES ‘Star’ Joins UN Science Advisory Panel

    Maria Ivanova M.E.Sc '99, M.A '99, Ph.D. '06 has been appointed to an international panel that will advise top United Nations leaders, including UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, on issues related to sustainable development.

  9. Former F&ES ‘Shepherd’ Finds Business Success Raising Healthy, Humane Meat

    two run farm yale profile Two Run Farm keeps its lambs in open pastures with their mothers to a healthy age.
    Charlie Munford ’11 M.F.S. arrived as a master’s student in New Haven towing a flock of sheep behind his pickup truck.
     
    He set them grazing in Southbury, Connecticut on a patch of land owned by Audubon’s Center at Bent of the River. The school year began. Munford became a full-time student and a part-time shepherd, checking his sheep on

  10. Hybrid Vigor: Forest School Builds on Historic Strengths — and Creates New Opportunities

    On July 1, the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies will be known as the Yale School of the Environment. Simultaneously, we will establish The Forest School at the Yale School of the Environment in recognition of the ongoing importance of forestry. The new Forest School builds upon Yale’s traditional strength — and creates exciting new opportunities.

  12. Healing War-Torn Ecosystems: An Army Pilot Returns to Iraq

    Hiking in Kurdistan Carina Roselli in Kurdistan during the summer of 2013.
    Back in 2009, during a ten-month Army deployment to the Middle East, Carina Roselli M.E.M. ’14 flew about 25 combat helicopter missions over Iraq’s southern marshes, a fabled wetland that had been drained nearly to oblivion by Saddam Hussein.
     
    Since all of those flights were conducted at night to avoid making her Chinook an easy target for enemy

  14. High Hopes for Growing a Green Fuel in Arid East Africa

    Degraded Landscapes 2 <p class="p1"> The arid landscape of the Tigray Region in Ethiopia where API is growing oil crops for biodiesel.</p>
    Since graduating from Yale in May 2010 with a degree in environmental engineering, Noah McColl has been spending a great deal of time thinking about what to do with leftovers. Not leftovers from yesterday’s meal, but rather what some might have traditionally seen as industrial wastes from the process of making fuel out of green plants. McColl would prefer