Next Yale Forest Forum Lunch Seminar

Monday, October 31, 2005 --- 12 Noon in Marsh Hall

Jeff Ward, Ph.D.
Chief Scientist and Station Forester for the Department of Forestry and Horticulture, the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station

speaking on Insights from Forest Research.

Jeff Ward is Chief Scientist and Station Forester for the Department of Forestry and Horticulture, the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station.

Dr. Ward holds a Ph.D. in Forest Ecology from Purdue University, an M.S. in Silviculture from Ohio State University and a B.Sc. in Natural Resources from Ohio State University. He also received Forestry Extension training as part of the Peace Corps, in 1979.

His M.S. research focused on how regeneration was influenced by alternative management techniques. For his Ph.D. Dr. Ward examined the community structure of an old-growth upland oak forest. Earlier research at the station included an examination of fuelwood thinning on regeneration and volume growth of residual trees, and the influence of urban development on inland wetland communities.

Current research projects include studying long-term dynamics of forest development with and without active management, evaluation of browse protection and weed control in forest plantations, alternative methods of forest management, utility of prescribed burning to increase oak regeneration, and effect of crop tree management on individual tree and stand volume

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Previous Speakers:

Monday, October 24, 2005 --- 12 Noon in Marsh Hall Rotunda
Food and Beverages Provided.

Helene Flounders
Connecticut DEP Forester and Planning Coordinator for the Connecticut Statewide Forest Resource Plan

"Mapping the Future of Connecticut’s Forests: The Connecticut Statewide Forest Resource Plan"

Helene Flounders has been a Forester with the Connecticut DEP Division of Forestry since 1996. She works primarily on state-owned lands, managing the timber resources of Pachaug State Forest, the largest state forest in Connecticut.

Other duties include overseeing an educational letterbox series on state lands, and acting as the Planning Coordinator for the Connecticut Statewide Forest Resource Plan.

Helene holds a bachelor’s degree in Forestry and Wildlife Management from Virginia Tech and a master's degree in Environmental Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The Connecticut Statewide Forest Resource Plan was part of her master’s degree project, and she has acted as the Planning Coordinator since the plan’s inception in 2001.

Prior to moving to Connecticut she worked for the United States Forest Service as a Forester in both Arkansas and Maine.

 

 

 

Monday, October 17, 2005 --- 12 Noon in Marsh Hall Rotunda
Food and Beverages Provided.

John Kakonge, Ph.D.
United Nations Development Programme

"River Blindness in West Africa - Success in Environmental Regional Cooperation"

Dr. Kakonge is from Kenya and has had a long and distinguished career with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) where he has worked since 1981. He has served as UNDP Resident Representative in Liberia and Gambia.

Dr. Kakonge holds a Ph.D. in African Studies and an M.A. in Development Sociology from Howard University, and an M.Phil. in Land Economy (Environmental Impact Assessment) from Cambridge University. He served as a Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford University in the Refugee Studies Programme, conducting an Environmental Impact Assessment of Refugees. Dr. Kakonge is currently visiting F&ES as an Associate Research Scholar from June through December of 2005 to work with Dean Speth on an analysis of Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) in sub-Saharan Africa. 

October 10, 2005
Maria Raimunda Araújo Santana, MSci.
Centro de Investigaciones Forestales de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo (Center of Forestry Research, National University of the State of Hidalgo), México.

"Restoration of forest ecosystems in the State of Hidalgo, México"

Raimunda Santana is a Professor and Researcher at the Centro de Investigaciones Forestales de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo (Center of Forestry Research, National University of the State of Hidalgo), México. She is also the Coordinator of the Educational Program in Management of Forest Resources at the Center of Forestry Research.

She has an MSci. in Tropical Forests and Conservation of Biodiversity from the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE), Turrialba, Costa Rica, 2001, where she studied non-timber forest products extraction and commercialization from secondary in Nicaragua; and a BS in Tourism from the Universidad Federal do Pará, Brazil, with a specialization in traditional peoples of the Amazon.

Her talk will report on advances in research conducted in collaboration with the Program in Tropical Forestry of the Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry of Yale FES.