Global Institute Short Courses
Forest Stand Dynamics at Pack Forest
An intensive mid-career course for forest professionals on how forest stands grow, from individual tree architecture and growth, to how stands respond to disturbances and silvicultural manipulations.
January 30 - February 4, 2011
Upcoming Global Institute Events
Yale Forest Forum Lunch Seminars
Ended for the year. Lunches will resume in Sept. 2010.
Other Area Forestry-Related Events
U.S. Forest Service Seeks Public Comment on Highlands Regional Study: Connecticut and Pennsylvania 2010 Update
The public comment period runs from May 3, 2010 until June 18, 2010.
Global Institute Executive Director Mary Tyrrell has been part of the study team which tasked with identifying areas of high conservation value, the impacts of land use change on the natural resources, and developing conservation strategies in the Connecticut and Pennsylvania portions of the Highlands Region.
The study will form the basis for future collaborative efforts between Federal, state and local partners to conserve the resources of this nationally important region.
Research News
Recently Published Research by Global Institute Faculty and Students
Wildlands and Woodlands: Vision for New England
Lloyd Irland is a co-author of a new report from Wildlands and Woodlands which calls for conserving 70 percent of the New England landscape in forests (30 million acres).
"Can China Save the Amur Tiger?"
The current issue of Environment: YALE magazine, the journal of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, features research by FES doctoral student Xumei Han and her advisor Chad Oliver on saving the Amur Tiger.
Getting REDD to work locally: lessons learned from integrated conservation and development projects
Benjamin Blom, Terry Sunderland, Daniel Murdiyarso
REDD project developers stand to learn a great deal from the experience with Integrated Conservation Development Projects. This paper provides a list of best practices for ICDPs and applies their lessons as principles to guide the development and implementation of sub-national REDD projects.
Environmental Science & Policy, Volume 13, Issue 2, Pages 164-172. (April 2010)
Silvicultural and Economic Aspects of Pure and Mixed Native Tree Species Plantations on Degraded Pasturelands in Humid Costa Rica
Daniel Pitto, Dylan Craven, Florencia Montagnini and Federico Alice
A comparison of growth and economic viability of 15–16 year-old trees of native species in pure and mixed plantations on degraded pasturelands at La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica.
New Forests 39: 369-385. (2010)
Topographic Influences on Vegetation Mosaics and Tree Diversity in the Chihuahuan Desert Borderlands
Helen Poulos and Ann Camp
This study investigated the influence of geographical variation in environmental site conditions on tree dominance and diversity patterns in three topographically dissected mountain ranges in west Texas, USA, and northern Mexico.
Ecology 91(4), 1140-1151 (2010)
More published reseach.
New Research Projects by Global Institute Faculty and Students
Collaborative Urban Environmental Crisis Management (UECM) Research in China
PI: Yajie Song
This grant will advance Yale's urban environmental crisis management (UECM) research in northern China for the urban
2 ecosystem stability, safety, sustainability based on boundaries, interdisciplinary and reactions in Dalian Development Area along the northern coast of the Gulf of Chili. The UECM focus on accomplishing its goals using social, human and urban ecosystem analyses to understand the dynamic interactions in ways that intensify policy and management decisions as well as people's awareness, participation and action.
Sponsors: Dalian Development Area Grant, China;Guan Liu Family UECM Fund; & Mr. Rui Liu of China
Understanding Connecticut Landowner's Attitudes and Objectives
PI: Mary Tyrrell
Connecticut's forests, half of which are owned by families, face continual threats of further fragmentation from unplanned development. This project will significantly enhance understanding of Connecticut forest landowners' attitudes, objectives, and stewardship behaviors, in order to implement much more effective programs for sustainable forest management and conservation across the Connecticut landscape. Data will be synthesized and disseminated following the framework of the
Sustaining Family Forests Initiative for providing the best possible information about forest landowners to natural resource professionals so that they can more effectively engage landowners in environmental stewardship behaviors.
Sponsors: USDA Forest Service
Sustainable Management of Natural Resources; Component: Natural Forests and their Biodiversity
PI: Florencia Montagnini, in collaboration with six colleagues from the Facultad de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad Nacional de Misiones, Argentina
Within this large project, F. Montagnini, along with colleagues from the National University of Misiones and Yale FES students, will be developing guidelines and models for the implementation of a Program for Payment of Environmental Services (PES) for Argentina. They will report directly to the Ministry of the Environment of Argentina, thus they expect their research will have direct applications on environmental policy at the national level.
Sponsors: PNUD ARG - United Nations Development Program, Argentina
Of Interest
Yale School of Forestry ranked best in research productivity.
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