The Global Institute's Yale Forest Forum Leadership Seminar Lunch Series provides opportunities to hear from leaders in forest management, conservation, or policy in an informal setting.
Speakers come from a wide range of organizations and perspectives, including government, NGOs and business, working at scales from local to international.
Lunches take place Thursdays
at noon, in Marsh Hall, 360 Prospect St.
Food and beverages provided.
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YALE FOREST FORUM LEADERSHIP SEMINAR
Lunch Series -- Fall 2008 |
Thursdays at 12:00 noon
Marsh Hall Rotunda, 360 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut
Lunch Provided -- Free and open to the public
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Sept. 18, 2008
Paul Trianosky
Director of Forest Conservation, Southern U.S. Region, The Nature Conservancy
"New Approaches to Conservation of Biological Diversity Through Conservation of Managed Forests at Large Scale"
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Sept. 25, 2008
Harold Burkhart
University Distinguished Professor, Virginia Tech Department of Forestry
"Modeling Complex Stand Structures - Can we build on lessons learned from modeling 'simple' stand structures?"
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Sept. 30 , 2008
Kevin Flesher
Research Director, Center for Biodiversity Studies, Michelin Ecological Reserve, Igrapiuna, Bahia, Brasil
"Enrichment Planting for Restoration of the Atlantic Forest of Bahia, Brazil"
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Oct. 2, 2008
Mark Matthews
Former wildland firefighter with the Lolo National Forest in Montana, and author of two books on the early history of smoke jumping.
"From Conscientious Objection to Thirteen Deaths: The First Ten Years of the USFS Smoke Jumper Program"
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Oct. 9, 2008
David Beerling
Professor of Palaeoclimatology, University of Sheffield, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences
"Fungal Power Lines of Plant Energy - Regulators of Planetary CO2 and Climate?"
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Oct. 16, 2008
David H. Smith
Director, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Yale Institution for Social and Policy Studies
"Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Some Ethical Issues for Nonprofit Boards"
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Oct. 23, 2008
Rod Nash
Professor Emeritus of History and the Environmental Studies Program, University of California, Santa Barbara
"Aldo Leopold and the American Environmental Movement"
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Oct. 30, 2008
Mark Rudnicki
Assistant Professor Forest Ecology Department of Natural Resources Management and Engineering University of Connecticut
"Forest Response to Chronic Wind"
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TUESDAY, Nov. 4, 2008
Michiel van Breugel
Post-doctoral Research Scientist, Applied Ecology Program, Center for Tropical Forest Science and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
"Integrated Ecosystem Services in Human-Dominated Tropical Landscapes, Agua Salud and PRORENA Projects, Republic of Panama"
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Nov. 6, 2008
Nancy Smith
Member, Maine State House of Representatives, Dairy Farmer and Forestry Consultant
"Liquidation Harvesting - It's Not about Forestry"
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Nov. 13 , 2008
Andrea Johnson, FES '05
Environmental Investigation Agency
"Tackling Illegal Logging, One Supply Chain at a Time: How the new U.S. Lacey Act Will Transform the Global Wood Trade"
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Nov. 20, 2008
Abby Weinberg, FES '04
Manager of the Conservation Research Program, the Open Space Institute
"Preparing for the Next Surge of TIMO Sales: a Case Study of the Mahoosuc Region with Big Implications"
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Dec. 4 , 2008
Robert Deal
Research Silviculturist, Ecologically Sustainable Production of Forest Resources Team (ESP) USDA Forest Service
"Sustainable Management Strategies to Enhance Biodiversity and IncreaseStand Structural Complexity in the Tongass NF, Alaska: Alternatives to Clearcutting?"
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