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On those days, “you’d feel like, this is the definition of to make checking air quality — which, in India, also varies hell,” said Abhilasha Purwar ’17 M.E.M., who grew up in the drastically day to day — as easy as checking the weather, Toolkit for suburbs of Delhi. “This is as apocalyptic as it can get.” so users can make decisions about, for example, whether Despite that, she says, many people in India seem to to wear a mask when they’re outside or whether or not simply accept the air pollution conditions. Purwar wants to to go out at all. (After recently suffering heatstroke in an an ‘Apocalypse’ empower people to learn more about air quality so they can unseasonal heat wave, Purwar has decided to add heat both protect their own health and, eventually, spur broader wave warnings to the app as well.) BY GEOFFREY GILLER ’ 14 changes in air quality across the country. To do so, she and Of course, masks, air purifiers, and other products her company, Blue Sky Analytics, have launched an app designed to protect individuals from air pollution, called BreeZo. explained Purwar, are like putting “a Band-Aid on cancer.” In some ways, Purwar’s motivation for BreeZo is obvious: They may temporarily address the symptoms but do It’s hard to experience such devastating pollution and not nothing about the root cause. Not that she goes without

feel the need to do something about it. She also knows that them: “I would not live in India without having access to The BreeZo app allows users without significant change, air pollution in India is only these products,” she adds. to compare air quality across time and location. going to worsen. Ultimately her ambitions She has a sense of her own ability to effect change — are much grander. She wants and she plans to try. Blue Sky Analytics to be the place “Otherwise, 10 years from today, what would I tell companies in India go to for myself?” said Purwar, who also attended the Indian Institute geospatial data and analysis. of Technology and is a Fulbright scholar. “The system has She believes that by making it given me the best education possible, the best network.” “as easy … to access this high- BreeZo takes advantage of existing datasets. A network quality environmental data as it is of air quality monitors around India provides high-quality, to order your Uber,” she can help real-time data run by the government and some private companies who want to improve companies; lower-cost monitors are also deployed by their environmental impact. individuals and smaller businesses. These on-the-ground By reducing barriers to getting measurements are coupled with satellite imagery that the data they need, Purwar hopes captures reflectance across multiple spectra, from which to make it easier for companies to different contributors to air pollution — such as nitrogen implement existing solutions — In New Delhi, as in many other parts of India, oxides and sulfur dioxide — can be parsed out. for example, by building power the air pollution crisis is painfully obvious Purwar said that her team didn’t need to build the models plants that use leftover crops as to any observer. On the worst days, the air is that convert this imagery into data, as NASA, the European biofuel instead of burning them hazy, obscuring even nearby buildings; Space Agency, and universities already do so. Instead, the in the fields. The smoke from it’s unhealthy to be outside without a mask company is compiling the data into a form that can show those burning crops is a major for any amount of time. The amount of at a glance what the historical and recent air quality has contributor to the deadly haze in airborne particulate matter 2.5 microns in been at locations across India, displayed as a reading on the New Delhi and elsewhere in India. National Air Quality Index, which goes from zero (best) Referring to the app, she said, diameter or smaller can be more than 20 times to 500 (worst). “I think it has potential for real higher than what’s considered a safe level, When she lived in New Haven, with its unpredictable change and real impact.” especially from October through December. New England climate, Purwar noticed that she and her classmates checked the weather forecast every day. She wants courtesy of abhilasha purwar of abhilasha courtesy

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Jesup Professor of hosted its 25th annual conference $2.5 million in seed funding from HG Ventures, associate dean of research and director of Silviculture and Forest Ecology, was named the in January at F&ES, bringing the venture capital arm of The Heritage Group. doctoral studies, Oswald Schmitz stepped recipient of the 2019 David M. Smith Award by together practitioners, activists, The -based company — created by down as the director of the Yale Institute for the New England Society of American Foresters and indigenous leaders from Sumit Kadakia ’16 M.E.M./M.B.A. and Claire Biospheric Studies (YIBS). Enter Michael (NESAF). The award is presented to a NESAF around the world. During each Schlemme ’11 M.E.M. — identifies and converts Donoghue, Sterling Professor of Ecology and member who is engaged in research, teaching, or session, calligrapher Heather products found in existing food waste streams Evolutionary Biology, who was named the new the field application of silviculture and honors Leavitt Martinez sketched out the into new foods, keeping them out of landfills director of YIBS in December 2018. David Martyn Smith ’46 M.F., ’49 Ph.D., who dynamic, interweaving themes as and reducing environmental impacts. According Donoghue, who also holds a faculty taught at Yale for a number of years in Ashton’s the discussion unfolded. to Renewal Mill, these milled products — appointment in Yale’s Department of Geology current role. including okara flour — are nutritious, high and Geophysics, is the curator of the Botany, Ashton, who is also the director of School in fiber, and flavorful without using synthetic Paleobotany, and Informatics divisions of the Forests, was a student of Smith’s, taking over the processing techniques or unnatural fortification. Peabody Museum, where he also served as teaching of both silviculture and forest ecology The project won the 2016 Sabin director from 2003 to 2008. He was elected in 1991 and oversight of School Forests in 2000. Sustainable Venture Prize, an annual contest to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in coordinated by the Yale Center for Business 2005 and was named a fellow of the American and the Environment. Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008. 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Dean Burke Named Ecological A Podcast with Heart Klee Returns to F&ES MIINT Condition Society of America Fellow On your next commute, queue up a new After a decade at the Department A team of Yale students — including Emma For her contributions to the field of ecology, podcast from F&ES, “Heartwood.” Hosted of Energy and Environmental Protection — Broderick ’21 M.E.M./M.B.A. and Leah Dean Indy Burke has been named a 2019 fellow by Thomas RaShad Easley, assistant dean of including a turn as commissioner — Robert Yablonka ’19 M.E.M. from F&ES — this spring of the Ecological Society of America (ESA). The community and inclusion, the debut season of Klee ’99 M.E.S., ’04 J.D., ’05 Ph.D., returned won the top prize at the MBA Impact Investing lifetime appointment honors ESA members eight episodes focuses on the intersection of to F&ES this spring. Klee taught a capstone Network & Training (MIINT) competition, and advancement to leadership positions in the forestry and diversity. The wide range of topics course, “Subnational Playbook for Significant where students from around the world present organization, at the members’ institutions, and include leadership, sustainability, diversity in the Greenhouse Gas Reductions by 2030,” business ideas to a panel of investors and in broader society. workplace, music, and wildlife ecosystems. aimed at developing strategies for local entrepreneurs. The Yale team created EVmatch, Burke was cited for her research and pedagogy Guests include F&ES Dean Indy Burke; entities to combat global warming, as well a peer-to-peer electric vehicle charging app in the area of ecosystem processes, particularly Julia Pyper, a host of Greentech Media’s popular as an undergraduate course in Yale College’s that provides financial incentives for owners of carbon and nitrogen cycling in semi-arid rangeland “Political Climate” podcast; Jennifer Verdolin, Environmental Studies program. residential and commercial charging stations. and grassland ecosystems, and how these areas a professor at the University of ; and “I’ve certainly taken a nontraditional path into are influenced by land use management, climatic Jarami Bond, an up-and-comer in the field of teaching,” said Klee. “But I think it gives me an variability, and regional variability. sustainable business. advantage — I can show students interested in Listen now on SoundCloud: yalef.es/heartwood careers that combine sustainability with politics or business what that looks like in practice.”

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Greening China’s Belt F&ESers Pass the Baton Two Faculty Chosen to Serve and Road Initiative at New York Parks on Connecticut Academy of Science In 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping Erik Kulleseid ’94 M.F. was appointed and Engineering introduced his signature foreign policy program: commissioner of New York State’s Office F&ES faculty Michelle Bell and William the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a nearly of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation Lauenroth have been elected to the Connecticut $1 trillion investment in infrastructure projects in January, replacing Rose Harvey ’84 M.E.S. Academy of Science and Engineering, a state- across Eurasia, Africa, and Latin America. after an eight-year tenure. based nonprofit that identifies and studies issues Positive reaction to the initiative has focused Harvey, the Dorothy S. McCluskey Visiting and technological advancements in the sciences. on the diplomatic benefits of connecting Fellow in Conservation at F&ES in 2010, Bell, Mary E. Pinchot Professor of various regions and providing new avenues is renowned for securing funding increases, Environmental Health, studies how human health for infrastructure improvements in developing boosting park visitation, and launching the is affected by atmospheric systems. Lauenroth is nations. But further scrutiny of the BRI is 750-mile Empire State Trail. During her a pioneer in the field of drylands ecology, with starting to reveal what many had feared might tenure, she also oversaw the beginning of Gov. extensive research experience across the U.S., happen — extractive commercial practices, the Andrew Cuomo’s 10-year, $900 million plan South America, and Asia. stifling of public opposition, and, critically, to restore New York’s state parks and historic Of the 24 individuals elected this year, 13 are a disregard for environmental impact. sites by 2020. from Yale. Other F&ES members include Dean The Third Yale Symposium on Chinese Kulleseid, who previously worked at the Indy Burke, Paul Anastas, Thomas Graedel, Overseas Investment Impacts held in January Office of Parks and the Trust for Public Land, Robert Mendelsohn, Peter Raymond, Karen Seto, at F&ES focused on the environmental will be tasked with finishing the major initiative. and Julie Zimmerman. otis peter consequences of the BRI, bringing together He is the former senior vice president at the Open experts from across academia and NGOs to Space Institute, co-founding its Parks Initiative. LEADERSHIP COUNCIL 2019 participate in panel discussions on the need for China to become a leader on climate action On April 25 and 26, the Yale School of Forestry chief science officer at P2 Science; and Charissa and the effects of the BRI on communities and & Environmental Studies (F&ES) Leadership Rujanavech ’13 M.E.M., a recycling innovation ecosystems. Panels included discussions on Council gathered for its annual meeting engineer at Apple. The program also featured the history of the BRI; sustainable finance; in New Haven. The theme of the symposium a “state of the school” presentation from and the impact of the BRI in Asia, Africa, was “Designing a Sustainable Future: Dean Indy Burke, who provided the council and Latin America. Molecules, Materials, and Manufacturing,” with an update on the exciting progress relating “We didn’t want this event to simply critique which showcased the work of F&ES faculty to the School’s strategic plan. China,” said Nick Lo ’19 M.E.Sc., one of the Julie Zimmerman and Paul Anastas. The keynote student organizers of the symposium. “We address was delivered by , the wanted to provide a space to introduce the president and chief technology officer of the many different dimensions of the Belt and Road Warner Babcock Institute for Initiative and constructively discuss the ways who co-authored the groundbreaking that Chinese investments are shaping the world “Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice” with today — for better or for worse.” Anastas. The meeting included an alumni panel that featured Brendan Edgerton ’14 M.B.A., ’15 M.E.M., director of circular economy at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development; Patrick Foley ’11 Ph.D.,

10 YALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES CANOPY SPRING 2019 11 NEWS & NOTES

Ongoing Dialogue Invites Big Ideas Although the challenges are daunting, Mapping the Future of U.S. Forests Water Works human society has the intellectual expertise for a More Sustainable World While he was a student at F&ES, Zach Parisa ’09 A Yale study led by Kelly Aho ’15 and technical capacity to address them, F&ES The path to a sustainable future is going to M.F.S. developed a technology that uses satellite M.E.Sc., a Ph.D. candidate at F&ES, Dean Indy Burke told workshop participants. require many big ideas on multiple fronts. The data to determine the size and species of trees revealed new insights into the “While there is a lot to be concerned about, it’s Yale Environmental Dialogue, an F&ES initiative in forests. That innovation would eventually factors that influence the release of important to be inspired by the opportunity that aims to inject new energy and fresh become SilviaTerra — co-founded by Parisa and greenhouse gases from rivers and that we have,” she said. “That is exactly what thinking into the national conversation and to Max Nova, a 2012 graduate of Yale College — streams, including a key relationship we want to address with this initiative.” identify future solutions to these challenges, is which helps improve forest management and the between storm events, ecology, Finding meaningful answers to these trying to do something about that. return on investment for some of the nation’s and topography in moderating this concerns will require overcoming differences In February, the Yale Environmental largest timber companies. release. The findings were based in geography and discipline, generation and Dialogue convened more than 100 leaders Now, with a grant from Microsoft’s AI for on an analysis of headwater streams political ideology, organizers said. Indeed, from across many professional sectors — Good initiative, the company has created the first in central Connecticut. the event included invited guests from across including government, industry, NGOs, and high-resolution inventory of all U.S. forests, a the U.S. and around the world — from academia — to share their big ideas. During tool that will help conservationists, government California to the U.K. — and from a wide a two-day workshop, they discussed these organizations, and landowners make better range of sectors. They represented large law ideas and innovations and identified potential forest management decisions. For this project, firms and small planning offices, land banks impediments as well as pathways forward. SilviaTerra is using Microsoft Azure, high- in Appalachia and departments inside the Some called for new strategies to incentivize resolution satellite imagery, and U.S. Forest . green energy innovation and investment or Service inventory and analysis field data to train The ideas they discussed will be featured reimagined models of conservation while others machine-learning models to measure forests. in a book, “A Better Planet: Big Ideas for a called for stronger local action on critical issues “Forests are made up of complex RESEARCH UPDATES Sustainable Future,” which will be published or made the case that the moment calls for interconnected systems, and there’s never by Press in September 2019. global solutions. been a way to measure all of these systems,” And that is just the beginning. In the ultimately help maintain high levels of diversity Many agreed that confronting the existential says Parisa. “And you can’t manage what Comita Receives NSF Grant Schmitz Named Senior Associate coming months, the Yale Environmental in tropical forests. Dean of Research threats facing society will require changing the you can’t measure.” for Tropical Forest Research Comita expects the project will ultimately consciousness of the American public. Indeed, Dialogue will convene additional high-level Liza Comita, an assistant professor of tropical Oswald Schmitz, Oastler Professor of Population provide insights into how plant diversity is again and again participants conceded that the discussions in cities across the U.S. on a forest ecology at F&ES, has received a prestigious and Community Ecology, has accepted the role maintained but will also help scientists better failure to address environmental challenges on range of issues. award from the National Science Foundation of senior associate dean of research and director predict the future composition and diversity of so many levels reflects a failure of communication. (NSF) that will support her research into of doctoral studies at F&ES. He replaces Karen tropical forests in the face of numerous threats, So they called for new communication strategies the factors that shape the rich and persistent Seto, who held the role for the last four years. including changes in precipitation as a result of that reach across generations and political biological diversity in the world’s tropical forests. Schmitz is one of the most prominent climate change. ideologies and aim to inspire. Comita will receive $620,000 through researchers of the link between biodiversity and “This integration of field data and new forest the NSF’s Faculty Early Career Development ecosystem services, in particular predator-prey simulation models will significantly advance our program, which supports the research of early- relationships, carbon cycling, and the impact understanding of the mechanisms that shape career faculty. of climate change. In 2015 he was named a tropical tree communities and will provide a During the five-year study, she will investigate fellow of the Ecological Society of America and framework for predicting changes in tropical how environmental variables (such as light and in 2017 released a book, “The New Ecology: forest diversity and species composition in water availability) and biological variables (such Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene.” response to shifts in climate,” she said. as density and identity of neighboring plants) influence patterns of tree seedling survival and

12 YALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES CANOPY SPRING 2019 13 RESEARCH UPDATES

The Complicated Research on Fracking Impacts The study — which concluded that methane Combating Climate Misinformation Bell Examines Effects of Landmark Report on Urban concentrations in deep groundwater varied over Future of Offshore Wind Earns 2019 Bormann Prize Just as the scientific community was reaching Urbanization, Climate Change Natural Forest Areas time and that these variations were unrelated to in Brazil While a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Many studies have looked at the impact of a consensus on the dangerous reality of Researchers at F&ES recently partnered shale gas development — earned Barth-Naftilan report laid out an ambitious plan to expand hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, on groundwater. climate change, the partisan divide began to Rapid urbanization in parts of Brazil has with the Natural Areas Conservancy the sixth annual F. Herbert Bormann Prize, an the nation’s wind sector into offshore waters, But usually they have required researchers to widen, says Justin Farrell, an assistant professor degraded air quality and exacerbated the (NAC) and the Trust for Public Land to award that honors an F&ES doctoral student a recent Yale study found that implementing knock on the homes of people living near active of sociology at F&ES. That might seem like a urban heat island effect, with profound create a first-of-its-kind report on how U.S. whose work best exemplifies the legacy of the such a plan won’t be as simple — or, wells and ask permission to test their faucets. paradox, he said, but it’s also no coincidence. implications for public health. Those impacts cities manage urban natural forest areas. longtime professor. potentially, as green — as it might seem. Doctoral candidate Erica Barth-Naftilan ’13 It was around this time that an organized will only worsen as the climate changes, as In a survey of 125 organizations in 110 “The study is exemplary in that it soberly Writing in the journal Nature M.E.M. took a different approach. Working network started to coalesce around the goal of heat waves are expected to occur more often, metropolitan areas, they found that these addresses an issue that is fraught with political Sustainability, former F&ES postdoc Tomer with Yale colleagues, the F&ES doctoral student undercutting the legitimacy of climate science. burn hotter, and last longer. areas account for 1.7 million acres of land controversy, in which there is willingness and Fishman and F&ES Professor Emeritus convinced a gas company to share In a recent paper published in Nature Michelle Bell, Mary E. Pinchot Professor — an area larger than — but tendency by environmental advocates to lay Thomas Graedel recently made the case access to the area near well pads and a drilling Climate Change, Farrell and two co-authors of Environmental Health at F&ES, recently often don’t receive the investment and blame on oil and gas exploration,” said Oswald that the DOE’s plan fails to address, among schedule. This allowed her and her team to collect — including Kathryn McConnell, a Ph.D. received a $640,000 grant from the U.K.- care they require. Schmitz, Oastler Professor of Population and other challenges, the difficulty of supplying water samples monthly before, during, and after student at F&ES — illustrate how a large-scale based Wellcome Trust to study the health These landscapes are essential to an Community Ecology and senior associate the rare-earth metals needed to produce drilling in the Marcellus Shale and to publish the misinformation campaign has eroded public impacts of these twin challenges in two major ecosystem’s resiliency and to protecting dean of research. “The research shows that the offshore turbines. A small wind farm off the results in the Proceedings of the National Academy trust in climate science, but also provides Brazilian cities, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. public health, and they are a proven evidence does not align with the conventional coast, for instance, required of Sciences. insights into what might be done about it. During the three-year study, Bell and combatant of climate change, regulating environmental narrative.” enormous amounts of neodymium, a rare- “Many people see these efforts to undermine colleagues from State temperature and flooding. “We found that earth metal that today is mined mainly in science as an increasingly dangerous challenge, University and multiple Brazilian universities many organizations share similar motivations China, Fishman says. The DOE report, and they feel paralyzed about what to do about will use state-of-the-art methods to determine and challenges but don’t have basic types they write, failed to take into account the it,” said Farrell. “But there’s been a growing how air pollution and weather — including of data to describe who is using the forest, potential bottlenecks — including political, amount of research into this challenge over heat waves — are affecting human health the forest condition, and how it is changing economic, and environmental complications the past few years that will help us chart out today and the potential impacts under a over time,” said Clara Pregitzer, a Ph.D. — that might occur at any step along the some solutions.” changing climate. They will also evaluate how candidate at F&ES, a conservation scientist supply chain. climate change policies could affect air quality at NAC, and co-author of the report. in the short term. “The decisions made in the next few years will affect public health for decades to come,” said Bell. “This project has the potential to considerably improve societal welfare by informing decision-makers at the community, regional, and national levels on the consequences of air quality and climate change policies.” Established in 1936, the Wellcome Trust is a biomedical research charity that funds investigation to improve human and animal health.

Oswald Schmitz, left, Chris Bormann, Erica Barth-Naftila, and James Saiers

14 YALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES CANOPY SPRING 2019 15 KEEPING IT LOCAL Dozens of F&ES alums are working — often together — to make New Haven a stronger, more sustainable community.

BY KEVIN DENNEHY

ebecca Gratz ’99 M.E.M. sits in her office New Haven community. And she discovered Ron New Haven’s City Point, sorting through The Sound School. old photos of the neighborhood. Parts of the “We really loved the people we met and the building where she now works date back to the community we were connected to,” Gratz says, 19th century, when this block overlooking New looking back. “We got married, bought a house. Haven Harbor was dotted with oyster companies I started teaching here and loved it. Then you and where shellfish were shucked in basements wake up 20 years later, and here you are! along the wharf. Back then locals used to race “I look around now and see all the things we sharpies, a type of flat-bottomed sailboat believed worked on, and I can feel really proud of being to have originated here, off these piers. part of that. It’s a community where I’ve felt the Today, Gratz is the principal of The Sound things I have done have made a difference.” School, a high school where students help run There are more than 5,100 living F&ES an aquaculture program and build wooden graduates, and they live in every corner of sailboats, including sharpies, on this same site. the planet, working in nearly every sector. Of She recently co-launched a nonprofit to support those, more than 150 are living in this corner, the kinds of improvements to the school — and in Greater New Haven, making it a stronger the waterfront — that the city simply can’t and more sustainable place. They’re working afford: building renovations, a cultural museum, in schools and nonprofits, in finance and a return to oyster farming. government, in startups and academia. And they She never imagined that she would develop often work in partnership with each other and such a deep attachment to this city, let alone this with the school where they earned their degrees. neighborhood, when she arrived here from New We recently caught up with a few alums who York City to attend the Yale School of Forestry call New Haven home or started businesses here. & Environmental Studies (F&ES) in 1996. But They share their stories of why they came here, in those years as an F&ES student, Gratz made why they decided to stay, the changes they’ve some life-changing friendships, met her first seen, and the part they’ve played in making husband, and decided to invest herself in the that change. shutterstock.com/jon bilous shutterstock.com/jon

16 YALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES CANOPY SPRING 2019 17 LATHA SWAMY ’16 M.E.M. ANNA PICKETT ’10 M.E.Sc. Food Systems Policy Director, City of New Haven Development & Outreach Manager, Urban Resources Initiative

hile she was a graduate student at F&ES, Latha Community Leadership Program, where she met other young, or Anna Pickett ’10 M.E.Sc. and Casey Pickett ’10 WSwamy ’16 M.E.M. never felt a deep connection energetic leaders — including Erik Clemons from the Connecticut FM.E.M./M.B.A., there was always something familiar to New Haven. It’s understandable; in addition to being Center for Arts and Technology and Karen DuBois-Walton of the about New Haven. involved in the F&ES community, her research focused on the New Haven Housing Authority — and immersed herself in local As undergraduates at Oberlin College, a liberal arts school intersection of health and environmental issues worldwide. issues, including attending meetings of the New Haven Food in Oberlin, , where they met, they’d been involved in Before F&ES, Swamy was enrolled in an M.D./Ph.D. Policy Council. efforts to build bridges between the school and the larger program in New York, where she’d encountered patients with When the city posted an opening for its director of food systems, community — a relationship that could, at times, be tense. In chronic health problems, often exacerbated by environmental it didn’t immediately occur to Swamy that it might be New Haven, where they both enrolled at F&ES in 2008, they conditions. She remembers with fondness a man from the a good fit for her. But after some thought, she began to view it saw opportunities to perform similar roles for Yale and its Philippines, for instance, who’d contracted an infection, likely as an opportunity to confront health challenges at the local level. host city. the result of flooding caused by a local logging operation. “I had the systems level focus,” she said. “So I was excited to “We loved the city,” Anna Pickett says. “New Haven’s full It occurred to her that, when it comes to protecting public apply that on the municipal level, where the real work is done.” of fun activities and creative people working hard to make health, addressing larger societal systems is just as urgent Since starting the position last fall, Swamy has dug into it better. But we’d always planned to settle near Casey’s as treating individual patients. issues at every level of the city’s large and complex food system. hometown in .” She says that one factor more than That is why she came to Yale. As Working with a range of groups and individuals, she’s tackling big any other made settling here attractive: a tight cohort of a graduate student, she studied questions, such as where the city gets its food, how it can promote friends they’d formed while they were students at F&ES. global policy and tropical forestry a more vibrant and healthy commercial food sector, and how the To have children in their new hometown, they decided, that issues. She attended international community can assure that all residents have access to healthy food. group would be critical. Anna Pickett, front, with her two sons at a Yale tree planting. conferences, including two U.N. According to CARE and the New Haven Food Policy Council, “We were pretty open about it,” she says. “Before we climate conferences, representing 22 percent of the city’s residents are “food insecure,” meaning bought our house we checked in with everyone — ‘Are you NGOs and national delegations. they don’t have enough food or money to buy food, compared committed to staying?’ Because none of us have family close responding to challenges identified by local residents and After graduating, she figured she’d with about 12 percent statewide. The problem is even worse in by to help us with the kids. We really rely on each other.” collaborating with them on solutions. Anna has gotten to end up in , D.C., like underserved neighborhoods such as Newhallville and the Hill, At least seven couples from the 2008–2014 graduating know every corner of her adopted hometown, working with so many other F&ES alums. Swamy says. classes still call New Haven home, and over the past decade neighbors to create more beautiful and healthy spaces across the But a few months after One of her priorities is addressing the underlying causes by they’ve coalesced into a sort of second family. As the couples city, including garden projects, tree plantings, and field work in graduation, she was recruited back promoting economic development, livable wages, and workers’ began having children, they created a family cooperative to neighborhoods citywide. to New Haven by Yale professor rights rather than simply funding short-term solutions. “It’s share childcare and watch each other’s kids in cases of illness She also became a lead organizer of Rock to Rock, an annual and the former President of Mexico, important to make sure there’s a social safety net, where there’s or business travel. They even vacation together. citywide bike event that has raised over $1.4 million for more Ernesto Zedillo, to join the Rockefeller Foundation Economic food for people who really need it,” she said. “But by focusing Meanwhile, Anna has played a role in strengthening the than two dozen nonprofits doing environmental work. Council on Planetary Health, a new initiative of the Yale Center all efforts on food pantries and soup kitchens, you’re not really relationship between Yale and the city as the development And she’s been able to share the connection to the city with for the Study of Globalization. Swamy understood that the addressing the root causes. We need a ‘both-and’ approach.” and outreach manager for the Urban Resources Initiative her two sons, 8 and 6. “They like seeing me drive a truck position was temporary and that she’d eventually have to She’s also working to develop a community food systems “hub” (URI), an F&ES-based nonprofit partnership that engages through town,” she says. “And they like to help plant trees.” find another full-time job. But in the meantime, she fell for that, among other goals, might streamline the work of dozens of in community forestry activities throughout New Haven. When emerald ash borers killed 20 ash trees on the Picketts’ New Haven in a way she hadn’t as a student. environment- and justice-related nonprofit groups in the city and (Casey is director of the Yale Carbon Charge Project, a street a couple of years ago, URI GreenSkills teams planted new “I’ve grown fond of New Haven, and I have been probably promote municipal and state policies that support these initiatives. university-wide carbon pricing initiative.) trees up and down the street; the two boys helped bake cookies the healthiest I’ve ever been here, the most fulfilled that I’ve “I have a vision of staying here for quite a while, so I’d really URI works with city groups and community leaders for the teams and brought them water. “And now we have all ever felt in any place I’ve lived,” she says. like to see change happen across the food system,” Swamy says. “to replant, restore, and reclaim” the urban environment, these little baby trees,” Anna says. “It feels very hopeful.” Living in New Haven as a non-student, she got to know “Ultimately I want to support New Haven residents in propping up people “outside of the Yale bubble” who are involved in a just, equitable, and sustainable food system for everyone. I just important work across the city. She became active with the hope I can do this position justice.” matthew garrett matthew of anna pickett courtesy

18 YALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES CANOPY SPRING 2019 19 YONG ZHAO ’08 M.E.Sc., ’15 M.Phil. JOANNE SCIULLI ’96 M.E.S. Co-Founder and Co-Owner, Junzi Kitchen Founder/Executive Director, Solar Youth

or Yong Zhao ’08 M.E.Sc., ’15 M.Phil., New Haven “When I saw this, I thought, ‘Oh, this is going to happen to ooking back, Joanne Sciulli ’96 M.E.S. can’t pinpoint the relationships I’d created in the Fwas his first taste of the . When he arrived all of these restaurants,’ and that’s a $20 billion market,” he said L exactly where her interest in environmental issues came community — particularly with young on the Yale campus in 2006, from northern China, he recently. “I thought we needed to create a new model for this, to from. She didn’t come from an “outdoorsy” family, and she people — I piloted this initiative that wasn’t sure what kind of career he wanted to pursue, but change the way casual Chinese restaurants work.” wasn’t the type to join the high school environmental club. gave kids something to do when they he was eager to open himself up to new worlds. Zhao and a group of friends — including classmate Wanting But by the time she was a college undergraduate in weren’t in school — something that Although he knew he wanted to tackle environmental Zhang ’11 M.E.Sc., to whom he is now married — decided there the early 1990s, the boundaries of what was considered was safe, productive, and supported challenges, the idea of getting involved in politics back home was an opportunity to “Chinese-ify” the popular American fast- environmentalism were expanding. Researchers had started to their development,” she says. “This in China seemed risky and, after studying science for several casual format; the group, which included Ming Bai ’13 M.F.A. show the link between environmental degradation and poverty, was the niche I was looking to fill.” years, he wasn’t sure he had a passion for a career in research. and Lucas Sin ’15 B.S., decided to offer food from northern and that poorer neighborhoods tend to pay a higher price for In 2000, that initiative became The idea of launching a startup, however, did stoke his China that was simple, healthy, and tasty. society’s pollution. Solar Youth, a nonprofit that passions. In New Haven he had a vision for the kind of Their first restaurant, Junzi Kitchen, opened on Broadway in At the time, Sciulli was at Barnard College in New York City, introduces children to the environment business that might make sense, for the niche he might be New Haven in the fall of 2015. where there were emerging unsettling case studies of what in their backyard, helps them identify able to fill. As Zhao saw it, the potential market was huge; most Chinese would become known as environmental justice. There was, for challenges, and supports them as they As a graduate student, Zhao lived in an apartment above restaurants in the U.S., he said, have followed an old-fashioned instance, a waste sewage plant originally proposed for the Upper develop solutions. Sciulli has served as Joanne Sciulli, back center, with a group the Great Wall Restaurant on Whitney Avenue. The owner mom-and-pop shop model and are usually unable to establish a West Side that was moved instead to the African-American executive director since its founding. of Solar Youth staff of the restaurant, who was also his landlord, mentioned to cohesive brand. He and his team wanted Junzi to be something neighborhood of West Harlem. And there were growing The environment, she says, became the context for what was him often that he’d never be able to retire because his children much different. They describe it as a “modern” Chinese restaurant tensions about where city leaders were placing bus depots — really needed: creating opportunities and support for young people weren’t interested in taking over the family business. This that specializes in northern Chinese-style noodle dishes and and the emissions from idling buses that come with them. to develop a sense of self and learn valuable skills. “The most reflected a generational shift Zhao had observed, as fewer bings, a type of flour wrap that has been compared to crêpes Sciulli made the topic the subject of her senior thesis, poring important thing I wanted to achieve was convincing these kids that and fewer young Chinese people were willing to emigrate to or flatbread. through early research on the relationship between race and the they are problem-solvers,” says Sciulli. “Everyone has the capacity the U.S. to work in similar traditional “Americanized” While developing the business plan, the group worked with the environment and getting to know the New York leaders who to look at the world and see what is wrong or broken, and everyone Chinese restaurants. Yale Entrepreneurial Institute, which helped them hone the idea, were fighting for more just policies. It also steered her to Yale. has the power to think through what to do about it and take action.” examine different business models, and develop a brand. (“There As she began to search for her niche in the environmental Over nearly two decades, Solar Youth has served more than are so many Yalies on the team, we’ve been called the most highly justice field, she found there was not a pathway for those 3,500 children ages 4 to 18. Participants have led river cleanups educated Chinese restaurant startup ever,” Zhao said.) interested in studying it. She was going to have to create and beautification efforts, public gardens and flower plantings. Zhao envisions nothing less than establishing “one of the most one herself. But they’ve also initiated partnerships to address the rising recognized Chinese brands in the U.S.” And they’re off to a good At Yale, Sciulli found her answers in the community. population of feral cats, and petitions that encourage residents to start: They recently launched their fourth restaurant, in midtown Working for the New Haven Ecology Project, a nonprofit that take a “kindness pledge” in order to reduce neighborhood violence. Manhattan. They’ve raised more than $5 million from investors promotes sustainable environmental practices, she surveyed Like many nonprofits, there have been financial challenges, — including some of the world’s most influential hospitality residents about a proposed urban farm on a 20-acre piece of particularly in the face of a struggling state economy and a leaders — and want to raise another $12 million by the end land near West Rock (which would later become Common proliferation of environment-related efforts. But year by year, Solar of the year. Ground High School). During an internship, she helped lead Youth measures its successes not by the outcomes of child-led They started in New Haven because it was a city they’d come a summer camp program at the West Rock Nature Center, initiatives but by what the kids get out of the process. They’ve built to know and enjoy. Working on the first restaurant helped them which introduced New Haven kids to nature. a community by creating programs that bring people together — get outside the Yale community to get to know the “real” America. “Every day we had kids from all over the city hike up that and empowering kids to address challenges that they have identified. “It gave us new perspectives on the different sides of America, hill and come to camp,” she remembers. “That’s where it really “That’s one of the reasons we’ve stuck around despite the about the complexity of our society,” Zhao said. “For us, getting clicked for me: This was fun. I liked doing this.” challenges of keeping a small organization around without to understand the real world was important.” In 1997, Sciulli received a social entrepreneurship fellowship personal or political access to a lot of resources, which is often He added, “If we can utilize our food tradition to provide from Echoing Green, a New York-based organization that how nonprofits exist,” Sciulli says. “Now, I would love to be healthier, more thoughtful, everyday foods for people, that’s supports emerging leaders. That enabled her to pilot a new one of those, but we haven’t built that yet. Yet.” Yong Zhao, standing, with Lucas Sin at the New Haven restaurant. our contribution.” zhao of yong courtesy wilcox joanne project for after-school and summer programs. “Building on

20 YALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES CANOPY SPRING 2019 21 ADRIAN HOROTAN ’10 M.E.M. REBECCA GRATZ ’99 M.E.M. General Partner, Safer Made Principal, The Sound School

rowing up in communist Romania, in a region he had support and space for independent study projects. ebecca Gratz, The Sound School principal, was an Gpolluted by non-ferrous metal mining, Adrian And he came to really like New Haven. Early on, he and Renvironmental educator before she came to Yale. Horotan never thought you could do much about such Anastasia, like many F&ES students, lived in East Rock. They She decided a degree from F&ES would help take her environmental challenges unless you wanted to work for biked around a lot, got to know the different neighborhoods, career to the next level. She figured that she’d teach for the government. and developed a close group of friends (including Anna and a few years before becoming director of environmental After coming to the U.S. in the early 2000s, he had a Casey Pickett). They found New Haven to be a wonderfully education somewhere. revelation: Of course you can! open and vibrant community. After completing her master’s degree, she stayed in He’d come to New Haven as a “tag-along.” His wife, “It seemed to me an ideal-sized city, with an ideal New Haven for an extra year to finish her teaching Anastasia O’Rourke ’09 Ph.D., was completing her distribution of things, with the university,” he said. “It’s got a certification while also teaching at The Sound School. doctorate at F&ES. For a few years he worked in corporate bit of everything and just enough. As you dig deeper there’s (She’d never known about the school previously, but the finance and investment banking. But on the side he even more under the crust. And as you dig deeper still, there are person who placed student teachers thought it would attended conferences with Anastasia and closely read her even more good things.” be a good match for someone from F&ES.) thesis work. There was never a moment when the couple officially decided Opened in 1981, the school prepares students for “I began to see in this world of early-stage green finance to stick around. It just kind of happened, as it did for many of college and careers in a maritime-focused environment. and renewable energy that maybe I could do something their friends. They’ve had two children, who are now 9 and 7. As one of 19 Agricultural Science and Technology there,” he said. Anastasia is an environmental consultant. And Adrian began a Education centers in the state, it serves more than 340 Horotan decided to apply to the F&ES master’s program career in environment-related venture funding. students from 25 school districts. Students learn how to in 2008, with the idea of focusing on that nexus of finance After spending a few years with Elm Street Ventures, he build and maintain wooden boats, operate motor boats, and the environment. He reveled in being on a campus co-launched his own small fund, Safer Made, which invests and manage a full-scale aquaculture program. where he could take courses or connect with leading in projects that bring safer products and technologies to In the labs, the students help grow lobsters and oysters, thinkers in their field — William Nordhaus, Marian market, including those that use safer chemicals in products barramundi, coral, catfish, and many other species. Chertow, Paul Anastas, Andrew Metrick — and where and manufacturing. Adrian travels around the world, meeting Students raise more than 1.25 million oyster seeds, 100 to 150 different business teams each year. So far, Safer growing them to a size of about 3 millimeters, which are Made has invested in three of those projects (Ecologic Brands, then sold to local oyster farmers. “The students learn a Repurpose, and Mimikai), but expects to invest in another lot by doing this,” Gratz says. “They’re learning how to 10 or so. He also continues to stay involved with F&ES and maintain fish production, collect scientific data, and then the Yale entrepreneurial community by mentoring teams of crunch the data. It’s the application of learning that makes budding entrepreneurs and helping them develop their ideas. it stick, which is why this school is so important.” “But they’re being empowered to believe that they can make “The way I got involved with Safer Made is through a The students also conduct original research — often a difference and can do things that can change the local network that I built while I was here at Yale,” Horotan says. “It in partnership with university, private, and state partners system, change our local environment and our community. started with a friend, Geoff Eisenberg, who was also a tag-along — including projects on the impact of human actions on “This school inspires me in so many ways that are spouse [Erin Wirpsa Eisenberg ’09 M.B.A.], with whom I the environment. And they’re becoming environmental related to why I went into environmental studies in the spent many nights talking about environment and finance.” advocates, lobbying politicians for smarter environmental first place,” she added. “I’ve been here so long it’s part of “When we started raising our fund a few years ago, we were policies and for waterfront funding. who I am, and I have embedded myself in what we do and a little bit ahead of the curve, but at this point it’s taking off. We “Yes, it’s great that we build boats, that we grow fish, how we think.” see a lot of demand for safer products from people; we see many and that our kids are doing real research,” Gratz says. brands winning with a message of safety and sustainability; and we also see interesting and innovative ideas from smart, driven entrepreneurs who want to make something where there was nothing before. It’s more than we expected or hoped.” matthew garrett matthew garrett matthew

22 YALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES CANOPY SPRING 2019 23 OUT & ABOUT People and Landscapes During a field trip to the U.S. South this spring, students got a taste of the diversity of the region’s forests — including the longleaf pine savanna of the Florida panhandle and flooded cypress swamps. Another group traveled to Panama, right, where they learned about the ecology, how and why these systems have changed over time, and the cultural and social factors that shape these changes. The trip was part of a seminar co-taught by Amity Doolittle, a senior lecturer, and Eva Garen, director of the Environmental Leadership and Training Initiative (ELTI). courtesy of a.j. leung hudson and perry courtesy garen and eli wittum of eva courtesy

24 YALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES CANOPY SPRING 2019 25 Nathan Hall ’17 M.E.M./M.B.A. underground coal miner. “I could make themselves into CBD wax and oil, which answers the phone from his car. pretty good money as a coal miner and save up are commonly marketed to consumers as health He’s traveling from , where he had to and eventually start a sustainable agriculture remedies for sleep disorders and anxiety. A POST-COAL see a farmer about a tractor, to West , and energy business,” he said. CBD, which is legal in all 50 states, is remedies of pine mountain courtesy where he’s meeting with an agriculture The money, however, wasn’t as good as made from hemp, a member of the cannabis nonprofit. It’s a typical day in a life where there Hall hoped. And his family wanted him to get family. But it contains less than 0.3 percent are no typical days. out of the field. “My grandparents especially tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the main FUTURE FOR Like many in Appalachia, Hall has had to were begging me to get out of the mines psychoactive in marijuana, so it doesn’t forge his own path. For many years that journey because they thought I was going to get killed.” produce a high. has been driven by a desire to push his native So at 23, Hall enrolled at Berea College, Hall and his partner couldn’t believe the region toward a more sustainable, post-coal located just south of Lexington. Four years growing demand for CBD. And with its future. His latest venture, Pine Mountain later, he received a fellowship from the Watson protective, wooded hills that help prevent APPALACHIA Foundation that allowed him to spend a year cross-pollination contamination, Appalachia was Remedies — which he co-founded last year — is a CBD hemp operation that provides economic visiting regions with economic and historic the natural spot to cultivate hemp. Economic BY ALISON STINE opportunities for central Appalachian farmers. parallels to Appalachia — including India conditions also make it an increasingly viable “We want to be a part of the silver buckshot and western and eastern Europe. He returned opportunity for local farmers. The 2014 Farm that’s going to hopefully transform this home with a commitment to restore former Bill permitted certain states, including Kentucky, region,” Hall told in 2016, mine lands. to grow hemp for the first time in decades. describing his work. Before heading back home, however, David Williams, an agronomist at the University The idea that no one thing will save he decided to come to Yale. of Kentucky, told Public Appalachia — and that the wide, diverse, and Broadcasting that Kentucky now leads the nation often misunderstood region doesn’t need saving, As a graduate student at F&ES, in industrial hemp research. In West Virginia, The steep, forested hills of Appalachia protect CBD hemp (top) from wind-blown pollen. Co-founder Nathan Hall (bottom) is a it just needs more opportunities — is important Hall continued to explore strategies to the number of farmers permitted to grow hemp ninth-generation Appalachian. to Hall. A ninth-generation Appalachian, achieve a more ecologically and economically has doubled in the past year alone. he grew up in the coalfields of eastern Kentucky sustainable future for Appalachia, including CBD hemp is not a cure-all for Appalachia. switch to something else,” he said. “They are in a town of 200 people where strip mining different entrepreneurship projects and the In some cases, farmers encounter confusion and more accustomed to working with their hands, was prevalent. development of innovative land ownership and community resistance; some mistake the crop to working with tools, working with equipment, “Growing up, I spent a decent amount of management structures. for marijuana. And farmers are heavily regulated and in a way, working with the earth itself. Heck, time in the woods and in those strip-mined In the summer of 2015, between his first and licensed by their state. Still, Hall calls it mining is working with the earth. It’s different lands … squirrel hunting in the woods and and second years, he and a friend were invited “the best option for this region, at least for now,” from agriculture, but a lot of the skill sets, bird hunting on reclaimed strip mines,” he said. by a startup company to grow hemp on a simply because the margins are just so much knowledge, and equipment are very transferable.” “So from an early age, I was all over those reclaimed mining site. At the time, he says, higher than for any other potential crop. Hall’s connection to his home, his empathy for kinds of landscapes.” there wasn’t nearly as much awareness about People talk about what’s going to replace the people, and his commitment to organic and He left the region at 18 and ended up in CBD hemp production as there is today. While coal as the economic driver of the Appalachian sustainable agriculture makes his work unique. Louisville, where he helped develop community that startup eventually folded, he turned back region, Hall says. “Coal has this kind of outsized It is also raising critical issues in the ongoing gardens and worked at a community center, but to CBD hemp when he and a partner formed place in our minds. It carries more weight in our narrative of Appalachia. eventually returned home. For a while he worked Pine Mountain Remedies. psyche than it does in reality. [But] those mining “Appalachia has a pretty rich and diverse as an environmental activist, but frustration with Today the company is cultivating several jobs haven’t been a central part of Appalachian history — and it’s more than just stories about some aspects of the activism community — and acres of CBD hemp, producing dried floral economies for a long time.” the decline of the coal industry and stories of the need to earn more money — led him in the material that will be sold to processors. Growing CBD hemp, he says, is a logical addiction,” he said. “It’s so easy to just tell those opposite direction: Hall began to work as an Future plans include processing the products alternative. “The people here can’t just easily same old stories.” istockphoto.com/werksmedia

26 YALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES CANOPY SPRING 2019 27 as well as stints as vice the LGBTQ community. chair of the Sacramento Each of those events City Planning Commission created far-reaching change. and a senior legislative The wildfire discussion aide in the California State caught the attention of Assembly. It was during California Gov. Gavin his time in policymaking Newsom, who included that his interest in research key findings from F&ES began to take shape — into a $50 million disaster the relationships between preparedness grant that political institutions covers undocumented

and businesses with a.j. hudson immigrants. “Queer and the power to create policy At Yale, Michael Mendez found unique ways to foster conversations around race, sexuality, and gender, Present Danger in the including bringing students to the Yale Art Gallery to discuss representation in art. and participate in Context of Climate Change” decision-making and those affected by these decisions, who aren’t able raised awareness of the marginalization the LGBTQ community faces to take part in the process. during natural disasters — isolation, blame from extreme religious groups, “I had a strong understanding of how government and business unwelcoming emergency shelters, and the lack of recognition of same- come together to understand issues around the environment — gender families. Mendez is now working with Leo Goldsmith ’20 M.E.M., I got to see that firsthand,” he said. “But I wanted to better understand who pitched the idea for the event, on a journal article about these risks. For Michael Mendez, environmental justice isn’t just his field of expertise. how people and places were impacted and how power works in the “He has created a space to open these conversations that normally don’t context of the environment.” occur at F&ES but so desperately need to happen,” said Goldsmith, a queer, It’s part of who he is. At F&ES, Mendez taught two courses on environmental justice, transgender student. “Other students came up to me after the event and one as a practicum and the other a reflective practice seminar. In the said they had never considered the connection and wanted to know more.” practicum, students worked with clients from the California Air “I want students to feel welcome,” said Mendez. “Make the Resources Board to focus on the implementation of environmental invisible visible.” justice. Mendez said he felt that, like many courses at F&ES, the class Even though his tenure at F&ES has ended, Mendez’s message will ichael Mendez grew up in a low-income immigrant said Mendez. “I want to open up spaces and dialogues to talk about the was “very applied — we’re really a professional school.” still reach a wide audience. This fall, his book “Climate Change from the community in California’s San Fernando Valley, the son of unique impacts and concerns within these communities — whether it be The seminar, he said, opened up new and diverse conversations Streets: How Conflict and Collaboration Strengthen the Environmental a Mexican father and a Mexican-American mother whose about race, gender, sexual orientation. I want to change the face of the about issues of race, sexuality, and gender to see how they intersected Justice Movement” will be released, which will dive into if and how Mfamily has lived in the Golden State for more than a century. In his teachers so people like me from communities of color can see themselves with professional practice. Students questioned their positionality: governments are considering the needs of the most socially vulnerable neighborhood, you were more likely to see a landfill than a public park. reflected in academia. I want students from different communities What are our values, what are our methods, and what are the populations in the face of climate change. Starting next semester, Mendez Being raised around what he calls “environmental degradation” — welcomed into the classroom and into the field so we can properly train unintended consequences? will be an assistant professor of environmental planning and policy at UC yet just miles from the glitzy Hollywood Hills — pushed him toward a diverse generation of environmental leaders.” “Students talked openly and candidly about their feelings and Irvine’s School of Social Ecology, and he has been chosen to serve on the trying to understand the cause of these inequities and led him to a Putting his words into action over the past three years, Mendez served experiences. They really appreciated that opportunity,” Mendez said. board of Environmental Change in Society at The National Academies of career of fighting for environmental justice through public policy as a James & Mary Pinchot Fellow in Sustainability Studies at F&ES. The Mendez also introduced these conversations to the broader Yale Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. He is currently the board’s youngest and urban planning. program recruits emerging scholars and early-career faculty who will enrich community. He brought F&ES students to the Yale Art Gallery to explore member and one of two people of color. But it was on his professional path that he discovered inequities of a the quality of the School’s scholarship and contribute to the diversification how conceptualizations of nature can be interpreted differently based on His experience at F&ES has been a rewarding one. “I’ve seen maturity and different kind in the environmental field — issues of diversity, which he of the field of environmental and sustainability studies. the viewer — who is represented in the work, who is left out, what nature professionalism within my own research,” Mendez said, “and I’ve gone from is now also facing head on as an academic. Mendez entered F&ES with more than a decade of experience in means to society. He organized events on the impact of wildfires on a California-focused scholar and researcher to someone who can move to a “The environmental field is a very white, male-dominated field,” California’s public and private sectors working as a consultant and lobbyist, undocumented immigrants in California and how climate change affects national platform. I’m grateful for the opportunity.”

28 YALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES CANOPY SPRING 2019 29 A NEW INITIATIVE IS PROMOTING UNIDO initiative, leaders in the field focused success stories, and What we’re trying PRINCIPLES OF GREEN CHEMISTRY on promoting green chemistry in developing explored potential to show is what the IN DEVELOPING ECONOMIES, FROM countries. That way, Yale leaders say, there’s an direction for future potential benefits are SERBIA TO SRI LANKA. opportunity to promote green principles within innovation. Participants and how they outweigh IT TAKES emerging industries — to leap frog to sustainable specifically addressed the BRAZIL the risks.” methods before they adopt the older, polluting thorny environmental In the end, the technologies that have become commonplace in challenges faced in their own countries and initiative will generate a roadmap for promoting Tomislav Stolar was familiar with the They discussed the principles of green Industrial Development Organization the industrialized world. regions. In Serbia, participants discussed green chemistry solutions anywhere, including principles of green chemistry. More to the chemistry but also how those principles are (UNIDO), which has tapped into “We wanted to target countries where they the possibility of using microbes to clean up a compendium of technologies that will be point, his work typifies green chemistry. already being applied around the world and expertise from Yale and other international are increasing their chemical production and pollution caused by the mining industry. shared with the growing global community As a doctoral student at Croatia’s Ruđer addressing local challenges. And they examined organizations to cultivate these “ecosystems.” building new infrastructure, building new In Colombia, a McGill researcher shared of professionals interested in green chemistry. Bošković Institute, he’s studying ways to future opportunities. In addition to Serbia, the initiative has led companies, developing new entrepreneurs,” methods to reduce the pollution that results However, those resources, and these workshops, reduce the amounts of solvents needed in Stolar, who studies a class of synthetic workshops in Brazil, Colombia, Sri Lanka, Egypt, said Philip Coish, another program manager from the cultivation of coffee. were never intended to lay out a path industrial processes. powders known as metal-organic frameworks, and South Africa. At each site, green chemistry for YCGCGE. “We wanted to get in early In some cases there was recognition that the forward or to prescribe a one-size-fits-all But as for how those principles — or his own envisioned industrial applications — using experts from Yale, McGill University, and other and show them the opportunities potential benefits of green chemistry might approach to achieving sustainability. It’s all research — might inspire a new business? He carbon dioxide as a reagent to produce methanol institutions introduced principles of the emerging presented by green chemistry include more than addressing environmental about giving countries and their leaders admits he hadn’t given that as much thought. field, discussed how they’re already being applied Then, last December, he was invited to attend in the region, and examined future opportunities. a workshop in Belgrade, Serbia. Suddenly the “Our goal is to disseminate green chemistry possibilities began to click. globally and to empower the next generation The training was led by the Yale Center of chemists,” said Karolina Mellor, a YCGCGE for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering program manager who created the framework (YCGCGE) — a multidisciplinary center and materials and co-facilitated the six events. “Workshops like these are not just about delivering A NETWORKBY KEVIN DENNEHY based at F&ES, the Yale School of Arts and Sciences, and the Yale School of Engineering EGYPT content. They give opportunities for like-minded & Applied Science — and Serbia’s National people to come together to build a community and green engineering. At the heart of green threats — they could also provide badly needed the tools to create that pathway themselves. Center for Cleaner Production. It convened in a more sustainable way, for example. around green chemistry.” chemistry is this notion of ‘benign by design,’ economic development. “It’s important to know that we’re just individuals interested in green chemistry, a “I now feel empowered to make a real in which you develop technologies that are There’s another hurdle, Anastas says, which catalysts,” Mellor said. “We’re not going in growing field that aims to make chemistry and impact in my community,” he said a few days In 1998, Anastas co-authored a book that first clean and less wasteful and which inherently must be overcome regardless of the country: there to tell them what to do. We’re showing related processes cleaner and safer through later. “Both in my scientific research now introduced the 12 principles of green chemistry, remove the need to intellectual inertia. them what opportunities exist, and it’s scientific design. But the room wasn’t filled just and also, perhaps in the future, in some an emerging field he’d been promoting at deploy end-of-pipe “There’s no shortage really up to them what they want to do with with scientists and academics. There were also business opportunities.” the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. technologies [which of environmental or that knowledge.” leaders from industry and business entrepreneurs, Which, of course, was the point. For all of the Among other charges, it called for innovations remove already formed economic challenges For Stolar, the Croatian researcher, perhaps government officials and nonprofit organizations. demonstrated performance of green chemistry that create new performance and function while contaminants from the that societies face; this the most important thing to come out of this in the developed world, it will take a network to at the same time preventing waste and reducing air, water, waste, or country may not have process is that it changes people’s mindsets. inspire and achieve a new generation of cleaner or eliminating the use of hazardous chemicals. products]. So if you’re reliable power while “People don’t realize,” he said, “but we should products, processes, and systems in the world’s Two decades later, the principles have developing a technology that one might have be spreading the message that things can be emerging economies, says Paul Anastas, a infiltrated nearly every industrial sector — that doesn’t pollute and SOUTH AFRICA water stresses or lack done in a more sustainable way. And that it professor at Yale and director of YCGCGE. from the production of food and energy to the is economically viable — of connectivity to the can be beneficial for all three components — Or, as he puts it, an “innovation ecosystem.” pharmaceutical and cosmetics sectors — and are and helps society — then that’s a better solution internet,” he said. “But those types of challenges the environment, society, and the economy — The Belgrade workshop was part of the taught at universities across the world. than what came before.” are usually less important than capturing peoples’ and doesn’t have to be one at the expense Global Green Chemistry Initiative, a private- Much of that growth, however, has occurred in During the workshops, instructors shared imagination about what’s possible and what of another.” SERBIA public program led by the United Nations the principles of green chemistry, highlighted benefits can come from these innovative ideas.

the U.S. and western Europe, Mellor says. For the mellor of karolina courtesy

30 YALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES CANOPY SPRING 2019 31 IN DEFENSE OF THE PREDATOR How Wolves Killing Moose Can Help in the Battle Against Climate Change

BY JOSH ANUSEWICZ

inety percent of Canada’s 37 million residents live within roughly N100 miles of the U.S. border — a staggering figure for a country that’s more than 3.8 million square miles in size, the second largest in the world. The reason for the peculiar population density is that most of Canada — 1.5 billion acres, to be exact — is covered by boreal forest, stretching from the Maritimes on the Atlantic Ocean all the way to the border of in Yukon Territory. It’s an endless sprawl of conifers, thousands of lakes and ponds and marshy bogs, leaving much of this enormous forest virtually undisturbed and uninhabitable. Uninhabitable to humans, that is. Canada’s boreal forest is one of North America’s most pristine wildlife habitats, providing a home for a variety of fish, birds, and mammals large and small to thrive. But it’s the thriving of one mammal, the venerable moose, that’s put a spotlight on the razor’s edge this ecosystem currently sits on. And why academics, environmentalists, business leaders, and politicians are all paying close attention to what happens next. photo istockphoto.com/mirceax, illustration shutterstock.com/barashkova natalia shutterstock.com/barashkova illustration istockphoto.com/mirceax, photo

32 YALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES CANOPY SPRING 2019 33 he 7,800-acre Yale-Myers they were growing faster and causing the ecosystem to store close to 40 percent ome things have become The reason for that, Schmitz said, is because wolves also kill caribou, T Forest is considerably smaller more carbon. The presence of predators, he reasoned, promotes carbon cycling Ssynonymous with Canada: a highly threatened species and also culturally significant animal in Canada. than Canada’s boreal forest, but it suits Oswald Schmitz just fine. and nitrogen cycling that helps plants grow and keeps our air safe to breathe. politeness, hockey, maple syrup. Moose, too, would probably Factors like oil and gas development and logging have forced moose Schmitz, Oastler Professor of Population and Community Ecology at “The classic view in ecology has always been that a habitat will attract herbivores, fit into that category. to migrate across and into new landscapes to find food — landscapes F&ES, studies the link between two important components of natural and then predators will come and eat the herbivores,” Schmitz said. “What we’re Estimates put the number of moose in Canada at nearly 1 million, that are home to caribou. As moose have expanded their territory, wolves systems: biodiversity and ecosystem services. seeing now is that predators are actually the ones building the habitat. They’re fanned out across almost all of the country’s provinces. They are have followed, with the caribou becoming collateral damage. He explains it in plainer terms: “The theme of my research has been regulating what herbivores do and, in a sense, promoting habitat sustainability.” enormous creatures — on average, moose stand well over 6 feet tall So, what to do? An article in the August 30, 2017, issue of The New to understand how the diversity of predators — from insects all the In December 2018, Schmitz and a team of researchers upped the ante, and can weigh more than 1,400 pounds, making them the largest land York Times highlighted a study led by Robert Serrouya, a biologist at the way up to mammals — shape their prey communities and what the prey scaling up their work to a landscape level. By using data from remote sensing mammals in North America. That means a lot of mouths to feed, many University of Alberta, that monitored the three species in British Columbia communities eat in terms of vegetation. I then conduct experimental in combination with on-the-ground sampling, they determined that the and shutterstock.com/alexokokok /vectorig, /ekolara, times a day. for a decade. The findings of that study posited that by hunting moose, research to understand how they fit together and the mechanisms that presence of wild animals in many ecosystems can trigger feedback effects that “Moose in high abundances are quite damaging,” said Schmitz. there would be fewer wolves and more caribou. Some conservation determine how they interact.” modify a landscape’s capacity to absorb, release, or transport carbon, increasing Moose feed heavily on woody vegetation throughout the boreal forest, organizations and wildlife management agencies, Schmitz said, have For that, Yale-Myers is perfect, allowing for more exacting experiments or decreasing rates of biogeochemical processes by as much as 250 percent. favoring shoots and leaves from trees. This hinders the ability of plants advocated for cutting out the middleman and simply hunting wolves. and detailed measurements. Schmitz has used this outdoor laboratory Animals and their behavior, the study found, must be considered when to photosynthesize, reducing their ability to absorb carbon from the Eliminating the predator from the equation, however, could mean

for the better part of 17 years to conduct many of his experiments on evaluating the carbon budget of a landscape. istockphoto.com/ilbusca, atmosphere. Furthermore, cold soil in the boreal forest makes for an devastating consequences for the carbon cycle. arthropods, particularly spiders, and the role their predatory habits play within the ecosystem. LESS CARBON IN His research has yielded fascinating MORE WOLVES FEWER MOOSE MORE VEGETATION CO MORE CO STORAGE 2 2 ATMOSPHERE results, extending beyond what many have understood of predator-prey relationships. A three-year study completed in 2008 looked at the predatory habits of spiders and their These findings could prove critical as researchers evaluate the potential role ideal carbon cycle, as plants not only absorb carbon to produce clean “This should be a win-win,” said Schmitz. “Not only could we conserve grasshopper prey; Schmitz determined that spiders that actively hunt ecosystems play in mitigating climate change. The carbon cycle — the exchange air, but the absorbed carbon gets stored underground, keeping it from all of the animals and conserve biodiversity, we would maintain their predictably alter the abundance of their herbivore prey. Alternatively, spiders of carbon through the biosphere — has been greatly altered in recent decades escaping into the atmosphere. If this carbon cycle is undisturbed, functional roles and conserve the landscape’s entire ecosystem. This would that wait to ambush their prey trigger fear in grasshoppers, changing as humans and their activities have become the primary movers of carbon by Schmitz estimates that the entirety of Canada’s boreal forest ecosystem protect that carbon cycle. their foraging activity in a manner that reduces predation risk. The mere releasing harmful greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Our oceans — which can store enough carbon each year to offset all of the country’s yearly “Top predators are already disappearing at a rate faster than other presence of spiders, he found, leads to a different “cascading effect” on the contain roughly 50 times more carbon than the atmosphere, according to the fossil fuel emissions. (Canada is one of the 10 highest carbon emitters species. Yet at the same time, we’re learning the profound importance they composition and abundance of plant species, in turn altering key ecosystem Marine Conservation Institute — are having to absorb more atmospheric carbon, in the world.) have on functioning ecosystems. Their loss could diminish opportunities functions like production, decomposition, and nitrogen mineralization. creating higher water temperatures and transforming the chemistry of the water. Efforts are now being made across Canada to control the moose of managing climate change in the future.” Schmitz built upon this research in 2013. He found that when plants With no precedent for these scenarios, there is no definitive solution. population, almost entirely through recreational hunting. But little effort weren’t being foraged by herbivores whose behavior was being altered, But Schmitz believes Canada’s boreal forest might hold some clues for how is being made to conserve the primary predator of moose, the wolf, animals — particularly predators — can make a difference. which can exert important control over moose populations.

34 YALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES CANOPY SPRING 2019 35 “TOP PREDATORS ARE ALREADY DISAPPEARING AT A RATE FASTER THAN OTHER SPECIES. YET AT THE SAME TIME, WE’RE LEARNING THE PROFOUND IMPORTANCE THEY HAVE ON FUNCTIONING ECOSYSTEMS. THEIR LOSS COULD DIMINISH OPPORTUNITIES OF MANAGING CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE FUTURE.”

n late 2018, Kristy Barnes, a doctoral student Schmitz hopes his research can be used to do just that. He has begun Iat F&ES, had the opportunity to attend the collaborating with F&ES faculty members Ben Cashore and Eli Fenichel North American Caribou Workshop in Ottawa, Ontario. The annual to derive new ways to economically value these animals, their functional conference attracts representatives from academia, government, NGOs, roles, and carbon cycling and to think through the complexity of it all to business, and indigenous communities with the goal of teaching and help policymakers be proactive. He is also beginning to collaborate with a learning about the endangered caribou. colleague from the University of to begin remote sensing animal Barnes, who works in Schmitz’s lab, has focused her studies on nutrient movements across boreal landscapes to paint a clearer picture on nutrient cycling within caribou populations. As populations decline, nutrients transferring. He also works with students in his lab, including Barnes and that caribou transfer with them as they migrate could be reduced within Julia Monk, a Ph.D. student researching predator-prey relationships and ecosystems. Exactly how much of these nutrients is transferred — and the carbon cycling in Argentina in order to expand the data beyond Yale-Myers effect a reduction would have — is entirely unknown. and Canada’s boreal forest. Barnes attended the workshop to learn more about caribou, but one With climate change looming as the world’s foremost issue in the coming of her main takeaways was how contentious the animal has become. years, Schmitz says there is “quite a bit of urgency” attached to this research. “Watching the industry side and the science side and the indigenous side And while balancing the relationship among moose, wolves, and caribou is COMMENCEMENT 2019 try to communicate — there was a lot of tension,” said Barnes, who will not going to reverse years of damage caused by carbon emissions, avoiding be conducting field research on caribou on Newfoundland’s Fogo Island yet another “oops” moment can only help to build a path toward a more this summer. sustainable ecosystem in the future. Getting these different sides on the same page may be the hardest obstacle of all. As the oil, gas, and mining industries open up more of Canada’s landscape, they take away more of the caribou’s habitat. These early-stage forests attract more moose to feed, which in turn attracts more wolves, who have an easier time hunting moose and caribou in a more open area. Environmentalists see a threatened species under siege but don’t consider carbon storage. Policies differ from province to province and region to region, making it difficult to create a unified strategy. Heels have been dug in. “Oil and gas are focused on the ground, foresters think about the trees, policymakers don’t see the interconnected system,” Schmitz explained. “We’re not thinking about this coherently. Then something bad happens, and we say, ‘Oops, how do we fix it?’ We should be heading these problems off before they start.” istockphoto.com/mecaleha

36 YALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES CANOPY SPRING 2019 37 COMMENCEMENT 2019

On Commencement Day, 157 members of the Class of 2019 joined a global network of F&ES alums that now numbers more than 5,000. The new class included 11 Ph.D. recipients and 146 master’s graduates. Speaking to the graduates, F&ES Dean Indy Burke reminded them that they’re launching their careers when policymakers are refusing to make environmental challenges a priority — and expertise itself is often dismissed. “We launch you into the world at a time when it is not clear that expertise is desired,” she said, “but at a time when your expertise is badly needed.”

38 YALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES CANOPY SPRING 2019 39 COMMENCEMENT 2019

40 YALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES All commencement photos by Matthew Garrett CANOPY SPRING 2019 41 Parting Thoughts from an F&ES

Favorite “I’m happy to be BY HANNAH PERAGINE '18 retiring, but it’s For more than a decade, Joanne DeBernardo has been the bittersweet because You’ve been a part of the lives of thousands first face students see when they walk into Kroon Hall. of F&ES students during your time here. On the cusp of retirement, the outgoing assistant dean What advice and encouragement would you of student services — or “F&ES Mom,” if you prefer — I absolutely give them now? talked with Canopy about her impactful career and shared Life offers us many different things, and we don’t ever really some advice for the F&ES community. love F&ES.” know from one day to the next what is going to be there. Students and alumni always speak of What challenges are we going to face, and what crossroads your genuine care for them. How did you will we come to? It is a matter of setting the correct come by that? priorities and living up to them. I treat people as I would want members of my family to be I am a perfect example of that. In 1975, I graduated from treated: with genuine concern and an understanding that college and became a high school teacher. Now, I’m retiring our students are our customers. We don’t refer to them as as an assistant dean at a graduate school at Yale. I never customers, but they are. They made sacrifices in their lives would have believed it. to come here for graduate school and to earn this degree, What about future students? and we are part of helping them reach that goal. You’ve decided to come to the best environmental school. That’s earned you the title of “F&ES Mom.” I applaud you for the love of the work you are going to be doing and the excitement and enthusiasm you bring to How do you feel about that? it. I would encourage you to flourish here as part of this For a long time, as a professional, it didn’t make me feel community and then go out and do great things. as valued and appreciated as I felt I should have been. But about five years ago, my church held an open session about What’s the next chapter of your life? joys and concerns. A gentleman stood up and said that he [My husband] Frank and I will be in North Carolina. would like to thank all the moms in his life — his mother I’ll be answering far fewer emails, decorating my new who raised him, his wife who raised his children, his home, traveling, spending time with our adult children, boss, his teachers. That opened my eyes to what being the and learning to play golf. I’m happy to be retiring, but it’s “F&ES Mom” really meant. bittersweet because I absolutely love F&ES. The school is going in great directions, and new energy is always good.

samara brock samara read the full interview online: yalef.es/debernardo

42 YALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES CANOPY SPRING 2019 43 fishing, but the stump holes and vines took over class secretary Park for summer recreation. Official retirement knees, hips, and back. Warning: Don’t wait too Roy Deitchman, affords some time for play, though I spend a late to quit. Now live on a creek bank just below 73 [email protected] good deal of my time and energy as board chair Charleston, .” for the Methow Valley Citizens Council. We are Mark Bagdon writes: “In April 2017, I sold an environmental advocacy group working since class secretary Novus Engineering and Bagdon Environmental to 1976 on land, air, and water issues in our rural Seeking volunteers! LaBella Associates, a multidisciplinary consulting mountain valley. We’re ground zero for impacts 64 firm based in Rochester, New York. It is great to of climate change and are a microcosm of issues have a firm behind us with people who can do needing grassroots activism. Check us out at Stephen Hanover writes: “Springtime has again pretty much anything we need. I am now the mvcitizens.org.” brought us to the province of Guangxi, China. regional manager of our Albany office. May think Nanning is the capital. It is situated very near about cutting back on work hours over the next Katharine Preston writes: “My book, ‘Field with a the Tropic of Cancer. High-speed trains — and several years. Still playing a lot of fiddle in both View: Reflections on Science and Faith in a Time there are plenty and they’re clean — take us to classical and traditional groups. Check us out on of Climate Change,’ was just published. Although view the mountainsides, which are dotted with Reverbnation: Three Quarter North.” (See photo it relates a personal journey, anyone who has tremendous plantations of eucalyptus. These on opposite page.) experienced the wonder of ecological systems and skinny, tall trees are waving as to salute the struggles with the spiritual ramifications of what competition for sunlight. The subtropic climate Bob Cashel writes: “Another year almost down the anthropogenic climate change is doing to those must be right for their survival and rapid growth. drain! I am still teaching high school biology to a systems might find the book helpful. To order a Where are you, classmates?” bunch of 14-year-old girls. As you can imagine, print or e-book version, go to ionabooks.com.” not many dull moments in the classroom, but it is class secretary very entertaining. Pretty good year on the coaching class secretary Whitney Beals, front, improved in swimming but struggling in Hallie Metzger, 70 [email protected] golf. I think I will have to wait until next year to 75 [email protected] see any real improvements. Please let me know if John Bissonette writes: “Just had a new paper you are going to the reunion, Sam and Clyde!” F. Dominic Dottavio writes: “After 11 years as (letter to the editor) accepted by the The Journal president of Tarleton State University, I will be

Mark Bagdon ’73 says, “Still playing a lot of fiddle in both classical and traditional groups. Check us out on Reverbnation: Three Quarter North.” of Wildlife Management titled ‘Additional Thoughts Deborah Hill writes: “Greetings! There’s a stepping down on August 31, 2019. My plans on Rigor in Wildlife Science: Unappreciated little new news in my life. While working in include a sabbatical and then returning to teach Impediments.’ Still work in my office every day the Department of Forestry at the University of a course on the stewardship of public lands and a except when traveling, even though retired in Kentucky, I bought a small farm in Frankfort, first-year seminar in the Department of Wildlife, June 2012. Love to read the new papers and Kentucky, and have managed it for some 20 years. Sustainability, and Ecosystem Sciences. In recent respond when necessary. Best to all my friends and I have produced largely fruit crops there and have years, I have been able to stay connected to my Denotes a reunion class year. Reunion 2019 will be held October 11–13, 2019. CLASS NOTES colleagues. You are always welcome to stop by our vended at the local farmers’ market for the past four roots in the National Park Service as a chief house in Logan, . Mary and I always love to years during the summer. I was involved some 20 scientist by serving as a founding member of the see old friends.” years ago with the issue of legalizing the growing board of the Park Institute of America, housed at class secretary class secretary to Martha and me becoming an item for two of industrial hemp in Kentucky, where it had been Duke University.” Peter Arnold, [email protected] Stanley Goodrich, years, taking in the Harvard-Yale Game in 1955, class secretary a very successful crop at the time of World War 51 53 [email protected] visiting Vermont, climbing in the Tetons, and Harold Nygren, [email protected] II. Kentucky has been growing hemp for nearly Alumni Association board member Hallie Metzger meeting her family in Marin County, California. 71 10 years now as a result of special dispensation, writes: “A giant thank you to my classmates for Peter Arnold writes: “With the passing of Lester Eric Ellwood writes: “At age 96, I have My second career in the U.S. Energy Information heavy lobbying, and well-organized research and nominating me to run for the Alumni Advisory Barry Bryan writes: “I am still working full time Bradford in March, our class is now pared down unfortunately outlived most of my close relatives Administration was helped by Martha’s husband, development. Last year, Congress passed the new Board. It is awe-inspiring to work with dedicated in Victoria for the British Columbia Ministry of to just four — Don Page, Gerry Fitzgerald, Bob and friends and wonder if any of my surviving Lee Talbot, in D.C.” Farm Bill, which makes the production of industrial F&ES alums from all classes. Let me know what Forest Lands and Natural Resource Operations, Curtis, and myself. Lester’s accomplishments classmates will read this and contact me.” Eric, hemp legal throughout the U.S. And this year I issues you’d like to see addressed. I’m your rep!” involved in negotiating compensation for holders in the fields of forestry and agroforestry are, Peter Arnold ’51 would love to get in touch! class secretary am collaborating with a neighbor farmer to grow of forest tenure harvesting rights that have been in my opinion, the most outstanding of any of John Hamner, several acres of industrial hemp for the production class secretary class agent impacted by a government initiative such as a new our class, indeed of all alumni. I was in touch [email protected] of cannabinoids, one of the medicinal benefits of John Lundquist, Patrick Duffy, [email protected] 60 park or treaty with a First Nation. My wife of 50 with him via email in his last two years, fighting hemp, on my farm. A dream come true!” [email protected] Jon Liles writes: “After my stint in the Army years, Gillian, and I are heavily committed to Kairos 76 Parkinson’s, and his good humor and cheer in the 56 (For more on hemp farming, check out the story Reserves, went to work with Union Camp in forest Prison Ministry International, volunteering for Philip Conkling writes: “Since stepping down face of such adversity was inspiring. Bob Curtis on Nathan Hall ’17, page 24!) lives in Olympia, retired from USFS. Don Page Patrick Duffy writes: “My great memories include management for six years. In an attempt to get my the last 15 years in men’s and women’s correction from the Island Institute, which I founded and led the dean sending me to the manageress of the occasionally breaks radio silence, but I have not wife out of the woods back to Atlanta, I joined her centers in Washington. We are very fortunate to class secretary for 30 years, I have started an environmental and Yale Faculty Club on the Village Green to serve heard from him recently. Fitz abhors all things dad in the electrical contracting business. After a have five of our six children living close to us here R. Lautenschlager, nonprofit consulting group, conklingassociates. as night clerk for the year; with a garret room as cyber, but we do trade letters. He lives alone dozen years (seemed like two), Jo Ann (present in Victoria and our sixth in Vancouver. So with [email protected] com. I have had an interesting mix of for-profit in Rochester, . As for me, as I compensation, a tuition scholarship, serving as wife of 43 years) started Liles Forest Management four grandchildren and one on the way, our home 74 and nonprofit clients. After 30 years of nearly approach 95, I have not yet bagged my 2019 president of the student body hosting speakers, in Walterboro, South Carolina. Tried retiring at is still very much action central!” Maggie Coon writes: “I’m loving life in the nonstop fundraising, I am pleasantly surprised by turkey, but I still have a couple of weeks, so they’d arranging parties, and welcoming visitors to 70, but clients wouldn’t let me — finally quit at age beautiful Methow Valley in rural eastern the simplicity of sending an invoice and having best beware!” the school. The first two were Martha Hayne 75. Had hopes of woodworking in my shop and Washington. Here we have world-class Nordic people send me money. What a concept!” and Elizabeth Cushman from Vassar. This led skiing and proximity to North Cascades National

44 YALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Let us know how you are doing! [email protected] CANOPY SPRING 2019 45 CLASS NOTES history series, now digitized and available online. class secretaries Build It with Wood program that is working with Just published a book on ospreys — ‘The Revival Susan Curnan, [email protected] architects, builders, foresters, and landowners of a Global Raptor’ — with Johns Hopkins. 78 L. Magleby, [email protected] to promote both great forestry and beautiful, Starting a new book on quetzals with Cornell, Regina Rochefort, [email protected] affordable housing in our cities. We created the taking advantage of time I’m now spending in Safeguard the tradition first-of-its-kind Pooled Timber Income Fund the highlands of southern Costa Rica each winter. Bob Gipe writes: “Based on a plan firmed up at and are poised to launch an Exemplary Forestry Class of ’76ers (and all F&ESers) are encouraged our 40th reunion in October, members of the of excellence at the Investment Fund with partners to address the to visit at the Las Cruces Biological Station Class of ’78 set sail in February from La Paz, large northern landscapes of New England. (Organization for Tropical Studies).” Baja Sur, Mexico, onboard a catamaran bound Meanwhile our Deep Roots land acquisition for desert islands in the Sea of Cortez. I served Yale School of Forestry & campaign seeks to double our forest ownership Eric See writes: “After 24 years of running my as captain with my wife, Betsy Fine, along as first and give us representative community forest environmental consulting firm, I am shutting mate. Jim Sempere led a landing party in La Paz Environmental Studies holdings in all forest types. In addition, all the down my office and partially retiring, working out to fully stock the liquor cabinet with local tequila timber marking that I did with John Carey and of my house. It’s been an interesting career, but I and rum. Meanwhile, Loring LaBarbara Schwarz Contact us about available planned giving options! others in Yale-Myers Forest in the summer of Sven Hultman, his wife, and a bunch of (other) beauties. need a break and to travel more than I have been guided a detail to provision the larder with fresh 1978 seems to have paid off! At the New England able to do in the past.” vegetables, cheeses, seafood, and tortillas. Andy Sven Hultman writes: “After having developed Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Society of American Forests winter meeting, I was Schwarz served as coxswain of the dinghy and and tested the concept of care dogs in Sweden for Development & Alumni Office honored to receive the Integrity in Conservation class secretary safely (though not without adventure) ferried 10 years, my wife and I sold the care dog school 205 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511 Award. I hope students and alums will stop by our James Guldin, [email protected] the shore parties to and from desert landings. Ed two years ago. During those 10 years we managed headquarters, Prouty Woods — right off I-495 in Becker, backed by wife Sheila, proved to be reliable 203-432-5697 to get the first national standard established for 77 Littleton, — to visit.” helmsmen, steering a straight course when others yale.edu/development care dogs, ‘Care Dog Teams within Home Care Jamie Mackie writes: “I have hit the age of 65 were distracted by breaching whales, diving sea Chuck Peters writes: “I officially retired from the for Elderly, Dementia Care, and Rehabilitation for and now am considering what I most want to do lions, and cavorting porpoises. Tom Rumpf, hiking New York Botanical Garden in November of last Adults after Acquired Brain Injury: Requirements for the next phase of my career. Still working, but with wife Annee Tara, proved that a forester year. Am currently an apprentice at the Center for for Training.’ As far as we know, there is nothing class secretary James Morris recently retired from a chaired traveling more and spending more time with our can quickly adapt to the cardon cactus forests of Book Arts (centerforbookarts.org) in Manhattan like that in the American National Standards John Carey, [email protected] faculty position at the University of South Carolina seven grandchildren is very rewarding. Getting the Baja. While we had hoped that Jim would learning letterpress printing and typography. Elysa Institute or the global International Organization in biology and marine science but continues to to California frequently to visit my daughter and demonstrate his well-known fishing prowess and 79 and I are moving to Berkeley, California, later this for Standardization. One of the breeds that is work full time keeping up with eight active grants. her family has been a nice opportunity to break supplement our food supply with fresh dorado, year. Having a great time.” generally suitable as a care dog is the labradoodle, Chris Brown reports that he is working on a He is a postdoc Ph.D. student and technician up the cold winters in Calgary. I still love getting when this didn’t happen, he led a landing party to so we took up breeding as the first in Sweden. pictorial history of the Washington Canoe Club, and travels to amazing places. His work on the out to hike, climb, and cross-country ski in the a fishing village to acquire fresh-caught yellowtail. Martha Tableman writes: “As I write, a second That has been so successful that we now have long a facility on the Potomac River that has served effects of rising sea level on salt marshes has won mountains!” We concluded our adventure camped on a Pacific ‘bomb cyclone,’ which is like a winter hurricane, waiting lines for our puppies. Full-time work! the Washington, D.C.-area paddling and rowing a number of awards. His favorite plant species is Coast barrier island, where we could observe the is about to hit . The drop in temperature Puppies do not care about weekends. And the Denise Mitten writes: “I still live in Prescott, community since 1904. Spartina alterniflora. arrival of migrating gray whales.” creates strong winds and lots of snow. Colorado females don’t care about time of day to give birth; it Arizona, and regularly visit the East Coast to see Pat Scanlon Leavenworth writes in to say that had a great winter this year, and I enjoyed living at almost seems they prefer to start late in the evening my child and mother. I worked with 80 women Robert Perschel writes: “I’m still busy as executive she has been retired from the USDA Natural 9,000 feet with lots of snow. The biggest change and be finished by five in the morning. It is great to in about 10 different countries to publish ‘The director of the New England Forestry Foundation. Resources Conservation Service for several years in my life is that both kids are now essentially have rewarding work at the age of 78! And every Palgrave International Handbook of Women Our focus is on utilizing New England’s forests to now. She and husband Phil have enjoyed visits to gone — Mark is working for American Airlines, new litter is an adventure. So much fun to watch and Outdoor Learning.’ Helen Caldicott, doctor mitigate climate change. We have published our Bocas Del Toro, Panama, to visit their son Dan in and Kate is at Landmark College. It leaves just them grow from blind and helpless to courageous of anti-nuclear fame who started Physicians for climate-smart ‘Exemplary Forestry Standards’ his Peace Corps community, where he was helping me and Kali, the 2-year-old Irish setter, at home. explorers of the world!” Social Responsibility, was the launch speaker. At and are doing life cycle analyses to show how local cacao growers manage for climate change. it’s possible to significantly cut greenhouse gas It is an adjustment, but we are enjoying the quiet 80 years old, she is still an engaging, dynamic, and and living in the mountains. At work — Clear John Paul McTague writes: “Perhaps I will see From 2016 to 2018, Pat served as co-chair of the emissions by shifting from concrete and steel for brilliant speaker. I am winding down, still wanting Creek County Open Space — I am overseeing some classmates at the XXV International Union Food, Land, & Water Project — an effort buildings to engineered wood products. We have a to be productive and wanting to travel, too.” construction of Phase 2 of the Peaks to Plains Trail of Forest Research Organizations Congress in sponsored by Wisconsin Land+Water — and she’s in Clear Creek Canyon. Lots to do, but the end Curitiba, Brazil, during the first week of October Howie Neufeld writes: “Thought our alumni also been on the steering committee for a second result is a 10-foot-wide path that winds its way 2019, where I will deliver a presentation in the might want to see this new publication on Waters of Wisconsin (WOW) effort led by the alongside Clear Creek. Folks should stop by if they Forest Inventory and Modeling Session. While air quality in the Smokies that my colleagues Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters. come to Colorado. I am only 90 minutes from the semiretired, I’m engaged in research with the and I just published in Atmospheric Environment: (She was a co-chair of the first WOW effort from 2002 to 2003.) In addition, Pat has served on the airport.” Plantation Management Research Cooperative at X, a new online open-access journal from Bob Gipe and other members of the Class of 1978. the University of and relatively busy in Elsevier. You can access the news story at board of the Groundswell Conservancy, a south Michael Rees writes: “Since retiring from the class secretary other consulting projects with my firm, Southern today.appstate.edu/2019/03/19/air-quality- central Wisconsin land trust, since 2013, and has National Park Service (NPS) after 35 years, I’m Sara Schreiner Kendall, Cross Biometrics.” (John Paul, look out for John smokies. The actual publication is available online been a board member managing an expanding really enjoying retirement. I’m volunteering with [email protected] Parrotta ’83!) and via open access at sciencedirect.com/science/ Mount Horeb Farmers Market for five years. The 80 the NPS Technical Information Library and Saint Leavenworth family is now focused on handing article/pii/S2590162119300267?via%3Dihub.” Al Sample writes: “Serving on the F&ES Anthony Hospital (where I mostly stock rooms over their farm in Ridgeway, Wisconsin, to the next Alan Poole writes: “Recently retired from the Leadership Council with Tom McHenry, it in the emergency department), ushering at the generation. Daughter Helen is a conservationist Cornell Lab of Ornithology, where I spent 12 has been great to see F&ES evolve to meet the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, and about with the USDA and son Dan works for a solar years editing the Birds of North America life challenges of the Anthropocene. Now at George to start work as a park steward in the Jefferson company in Dubuque, . County open space parks. Lots of fun!” Mass timber co-working shed design concept by John Klein Design Mason University (Environmental Science & + MIT Mass Timber Design.

46 YALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Let us know how you are doing! [email protected] CANOPY SPRING 2019 47 CLASS NOTES Policy) teaching terrestrial ecology, ecosystem of this is done through the International Union of from China; it’s a very different spring than any of Roy Smith writes: “I’m enjoying retirement and Julie Dunlap writes: “Hi, everyone. I had the from nearly every continent on the planet. The book management, and natural resource policy with Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO), which those I’ve spent in the last 20 years in finance. Might fighting for social justice, which is what most of pleasure of seeing Ann Hooker Clarke ’81 when can be downloaded for free at fromseatosource. good memories and eternal thanks to Herb will hold its 25th World Congress in Curitiba, be the last spring spent fretting about leveraged loan our environmental endeavors, local and global, are she and her husband visited D.C. in March. I’ve com. We hope more people download it or order Bormann and Tom Siccama. On the boards of Brazil, starting in late September. I hope to meet volume, liquidity concerns in the BB bond space, about. I’m part of a PAC fighting to stop a huge been doing some teaching (wildlife ecology) and hard copies with their communities, classes, and the Forest Stewards Guild and the Environmental many old (and new) F&ES friends at the Curitiba and whether the Brexit cliff or a China slowdown developer from building in our state’s last iconic writing (forthcoming children’s book: ‘Janey organizations around rivers. Through this work Integrity Project. Dory and I are having great fun Congress, at the end of which I will begin a five- poses a more convincing stress scenario (let alone holdout — the Granite Dells in Prescott, Arizona. Monarch Seed’) but am increasingly focused I’ve also been retained as an advisor to AMBER with grandkids Meredith (4) and James (1), for year term as IUFRO president — a somewhat staring at my Bloomberg and overeating). Also my Biked 400 miles across Cuba — beautiful country, on climate change, partly because of my new International, an effort to create an atlas of barrier us the faces of the environmental future we are daunting prospect but a great opportunity that I last year as board chair for an outfit that fundraises wonderful people. My wife and I spend half the grandson.” on Europe’s rivers, tools to prioritize barrier for striving to protect.” am looking forward to.” (Look out for John Paul to provide microfinance and extreme poverty year at our home in Crested Butte, Colorado, and river restoration, and recommendations for policy McTague ’76.) alleviation in Haiti. So, fair warning that I may pop the rest with our son in New Zealand and Prescott, Laura Falk McCarthy, 2018 Distinguished to fix them. There is also a new short film about Marty Steele writes: “In early 2019, we sold The up on your Alumnifire (please join, it seems to be Arizona. Come and visit.” Alumni Award recipient, recently left her post at our signature event, World Fish Migration Day, Bank of Washington to Sound Credit Union of class secretaries constructive) to ask you questions about what you The Nature Conservancy and continues to do that I co-wrote and narrated. See the 90-second Tacoma, which was the first merger of a bank and a Therese Feng, like about what you do. Thanks in advance! (Hey, class secretary F&ES proud! She writes: “I was appointed to be trailer at vimeo.com/319234626/9d74d39542.” credit union in the western U.S. Last month, I took 84 [email protected] it’s only been 35 years since we graduated.)” Seeking volunteers! ’s state forester in March. I’m grateful over as president and CEO of First Sound Bank, Roberta Jordan Tabell, [email protected] 86 for the opportunity and daunted by the challenge class secretaries a small independent community bank located in class secretary of managing forests and wildfire in the face of Diane Stark, [email protected] downtown Seattle.” Dusti (Gardner) Becker writes: “Hi, everyone. Alexander Brash, Kyle Datta writes: “I just completed 10 years in rapid climate change.” Philip Voorhees, Still doing what I care about: sustaining a loving the service of Pierre Omidyar as the founder and 88 [email protected] [email protected] class secretaries partnership, doing community-based conservation 85 general partner of the Ulupono Initiative, an Melissa Paly writes: “Wrapping up a snowy winter Holly Welles, [email protected] Fred Hadley, [email protected] and wildlife monitoring in Kenya, birding, doing Louise de Montigny writes: “In January I retired impact investing initiative focused on systemwide in northern New England with a fantastic hut-to- 81 Gail Kalison Reynolds, basic research on bird ecology (Ecuador) and giraffe after a 28-year research career with the British transformation for in renewable energy, hut ski trip in the Appalachian Mountain Club’s Stephen Gorman writes: “Over most of the last [email protected] demographics (Kenya), doing wolf conservation Columbia Ministry of Forests and, more recently, local food, and waste management. We brought Maine Woods with pals Josh Royte and Brenda decade I’ve been photographing in the Arctic from advocacy around Yellowstone National Park, and as an adjunct professor at the University of British the state from 20 to 40 percent renewable energy, Lind ’86 — perfectly timed to coincide with a Alaska to Greenland. Last year I was the only David Van Wie writes: “I moved to Lyme, New bucket list traveling — Raja Ampat for snorkeling, Columbia. Over the years I established many long- on its way to 100 percent by 2045; revived the frigid Nor’easter with two feet of snow and below- American photographer chosen by the U.S. State Hampshire, last summer after 35 years in Maine. Madagascar for birds and lemurs! Looking for term silviculture experiments to generate high- cattle industry by shifting to grass-fed beef; and zero temps. Joined another snowy and delicious Department to participate in an exhibit, Eyes on My wife, Cheryl Bascomb, is now vice president a few friends to join me in Madagascar July 23– quality growth and yield data that has been and made farm-to-school a statewide reality. Now onto F&ES gathering in Vermont with Brenda, Jane the Arctic, that opened at the U.S. Embassy in of alumni relations at Dartmouth, and I am a August 11 this summer. Still co-directing Life Net will be used to develop models and other decision- my final encore career — destination unknown.” Ceraso ’86, Caroline Norden ’86, Tara Gallagher Ottawa and toured American consulates across freelance writer and photographer. I’m finishing Nature with my husband, based in Arizona, might making tools; this data will become increasingly ’86, Cathy McConnell ’86, and Sarah Clark ’86 Canada. The Eyes on the Arctic exhibition up my second book, ‘Storied Waters,’ about a fly- move to Hawaii, am for Tulsi 2020, on Medicare valuable in predicting best management practices class secretaries in spirit (and via Photoshop). Coming up on two highlights U.S./Canada relations in the Arctic. fishing adventure I took to visit famous rivers and at last, and otherwise getting older as gracefully as under increasing uncertainty from climate change Christie Coon, years as Great Bay-Piscataqua Waterkeeper with Telling stories of indigenous life in the North, the ponds from Maine to Wisconsin and back that possible. Hugs!” [email protected] and its impacts. Since retiring, I am a director 87 [email protected] Conservation Law Foundation, loving the daily photographs reveal their adaptability and means are mentioned in literature. It will be released in for the Victoria Canoe and Kayak Club, with a Melissa Paly, [email protected] challenges and opportunities to advocate for clean of sustenance, helping visitors understand and October 2019 by Stackpole Books. My first book, goal to promote fitness and safe paddling in our water and healthier communities in the Seacoast appreciate the significance of the region within ‘The Confluence,’ just went to a second printing. community. With my husband of 30 years, Raoul Andrew Brower writes: “After 21 years of region of New Hampshire and southern Maine.” a global context. Eyes on the Arctic focuses on For more information, check out my website at Wiart, we now have the time to explore Canada’s professing biology and entomology, I cut my hair, the Americans and Canadians who live within watchyourbackcast.com.” beautiful lakes, rivers, and coastlines. Let’s plan to quit my job at Middle State University Christopher Pratt writes: “Still running Opensash, the northernmost reaches of the planet and reconnect at our 35-year reunion in 2020.” and took a different job as assistant director of the the window company that insulates old windows. I underscores the accomplishments of the scientists, class secretaries National Identification Service at USDA Animal have recently hired Eli Olson, the son of Naomi and researchers, and individuals from both countries Barbara Hansen, and Plant Health Inspection Service. I supervise Eric Olson ’88, to help me. He is doing really well who have dedicated their lives to learning about 82 [email protected] the national entomological taxonomists, who are and is a great new addition to the four-person crew. and planning for the future of this polar region. I’d Kenneth Osborn, [email protected] responsible for providing definitive identifications When I am not doing windows, I am working on love to hear from other alums working in this part for insects intercepted in imported commodities, a huge wooden foot bridge and a woodpile fence. of the planet!” Ken Osborn writes: “I recently retired from my job freight, and baggage at U.S. ports of entry. I Lots of wood in my life, so I’m pretty happy.” as a forester in Skagit County, Washington. I plan wear a tie, punch the clock, and take a mandatory on enjoying a less scheduled life.” lunch break. Living for the moment in northern Joshua Royte writes: “As part of my river Virginia and working in Riverdale, , with restoration work with The Nature Conservancy class secretary daily MARC and Metro rides providing time for in Maine, I chair the steering committee of the Stephen Broker, [email protected] Dusti (Gardner) Becker, friend Beth, and husband Tony in Big Sky reflection and writing.” [email protected] World Fish Migration Foundation, and through Country, Bozeman, Montana. 83 that co-wrote and co-edited my first book, ‘From Christie Coon writes: “Just gave a quick wetland/ Sea to Source 2.0.’ The book is a practical guide to John Parrotta writes: “In these interesting and Therese Feng writes: “I’m starting the third week nature talk at a recent annual meeting and understanding river connectivity issues, migratory very challenging times, I continue to enjoy my of an involuntary yet very welcome sabbatical of sorts, which is giving me time to think about values resurrected Tom Siccama’s funny ways to ID fish, and how to restore them. The overall goal is work with the U.S. Forest Service’s research and Louise de Montigny and husband Raoul on a 12-day paddle in Gwaii and direction ... yes, at this geriatric age. Coupled vegetation, like cinnamon fern for example: ‘The to promote the protection and restoration of fish development branch in various scientific syntheses, Haanas National Park with friends from Victoria Canoe and Kayak Club. fuzzy tufts at the base of each leaflet look like an migrations in rivers worldwide. While aimed at projects, and initiatives aimed at supporting with taking an alumni college course (‘The Life old woman’s hairy armpit!’ Miss that guy! We practitioners, it’s a great resource for students as programs and informing international policy Lived Well’) that poses basic questions and leads were lucky to have that raunchy boy!” well as the general public. It is full of inspiring processes for conservation, management, and us through philosophical and religious readings — stories, hard lessons learned, and great successes restoration of forests and their biodiversity. Much whew, Kant was slow going — and spending leisure time with my gap-year daughter, newly returned Steve Gorman at the U.S. Embassy opening of Eyes on the Arctic in Ottawa.

48 YALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Let us know how you are doing! [email protected] CANOPY SPRING 2019 49 CLASS NOTES class secretary increased calls to perform my climate change/ bachelor’s in social work and our youngest son is John Norwood writes: “Greetings, foresters, issues. I’m enjoying working with fellow F&ES significant career change in July 2017 when I left Elizabeth Carlson, energy show, MAGITRICITY, as a result. But the completing his sophomore year. We have since from Des Moines, Iowa! This is my 55th year of alums Jocelyn Hittle ’05, Gary Tabor ’92, the Environmental League of Massachusetts after 89 [email protected] real treat was to share Water Wizard with attendees added a daughter who came to us through foster life, and it’s great to be vertical, isn’t it?! A little Morgan Grove ’90, Jim Barborek ’99, and Lise nine years as managing director and then executive at the State of the Rivers Conference.” care at age 18, and we are currently fostering an news about me: I have two wonderful children Aangeenbrug ’90, among others! Please say hi if director, and became the energy manager for the Betsy Carlson writes: “Still in the Pacific Northwest energetic, beautiful son. John works for a company — son Brook, who is now a sophomore at Luther you come our way.” [email protected] town of Arlington, Massachusetts. After 14 years and working as the citizen (community) science that is researching and soon bringing online gene College in Decorah, Iowa, and daughter Sarah, in the nonprofit advocacy world, it was time for a coordinator at the Port Townsend Marine Science therapies for rare blood cancers, and I serve as who is a sophomore at Valley High School. They Erik Kulleseid writes: “I was honored to be change. I’m really excited to be working on energy Center. Life is full of all things marine, including the vice president of the Worcester Area Mission are my pride and joy. My career continues to nominated by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to efficiency and renewable energy projects for the responding to stranded marine mammals, Society, where I work to enact social change.” unfold, and last fall I won a competitive election be state parks commissioner in January. I’ve now town, as well as helping to lead the town’s new surveying seabirds, looking at plankton samples to represent Polk County as one of five soil and been on the job for three whole months (as of net zero by 2050 campaign. I find my work super for harmful algae, counting sea stars, raising pinto class secretary water commissioners. We are an extension of April). A little like drinking water from a fire hose engaging and challenging (in a good way). On the abalone, and watching the antics of a giant Pacific Judy Olson Hicks, state government, and our charge is to protect our but totally out of body and loving the job.” personal side, our daughter will be going to college octopus. Not much forest bathing these days. But [email protected] soil and water. Boy, do we need help here in Iowa this fall (still needs to choose which one), and our 90 Jennifer O’Hara Palmiotto writes: “I had a great there are plenty of breathtaking sunsets.” doing that! Stay tuned as I advocate for a three- son is a freshman in high school. My wife and I; Melissa Grigione writes: “Hello, all! I am now a pronged approach, which includes $60 million in time visiting with Buzzie McGraw at the Smith our children; and our rescue dog, Lucy, have lived Robert Heinzman writes: “A neighbor commented full professor in biology! My husband and I still annual conservation infrastructure; more targeted Plant House back in February. As always, great to in Winchester, Massachusetts, for the last nine that the only reason I would leave Colorado and study large mammals and carnivores (mostly agronomics like cover crops; and a diversification see her! When not working, I have been playing years. I miss all of you.” live in the Berkshires of Massachusetts would be out West). Our children are growing before strategy for new crops like industrial hemp, which taxi driver for two Nordic skiers (my kids). I am for love. It’s true. I’ve been really lucky. Lately, I’ve our eyes. Please contact me if you are ever in the can help us broaden the two-crop monoculture currently working on a collection of Adirondack class secretaries CJ May uses “enviromagic” to testify before legislators. been renovating an 1850 house while building a New York metro area!” that has depleted our soils, degraded our water, watercolor paintings for a show in early summer.” Kathryn Pipkin, consultancy (Growth River) that partners with Laurie Reynolds Rardin writes: “Hello to all of and caused a host of financial issues. We will need [email protected] leaders to navigate transformational change in class secretary Peter Palmiotto was appointed chair of the 96 you dear people, who I am sure are working hard an army of F&ESers to help us with this work over Julie Rothrock, [email protected] Gwen Thomas, their organizations. There are grandchildren, dogs, to improve our environment and our relationship the next 40 years. All the best!” Environmental Studies Department at Antioch a garden, and serving on a couple of nonprofit to it in some way, shape, or form. I think back on 91 [email protected] University New England in July 2018. Chris Lotspeich writes: “Since 2012, I’ve been the boards. Always fulfilling days.” our time at F&ES with joy and am now telling Eugene Simonov writes: “I am still residing director of Sustainability Services for Celtic Energy, Chris Rodstrom writes: “I recently joined our daughters about the great community we in Dalian, China, with my wife, Svetlana; son, Jane Whitehill writes: “What a good time we a small consultancy based here in Glastonbury, Vineyard Wind in Massachusetts to work on the Claudia Martinez writes: “Thirty years after were a part of as they think about grad school. I Daniil; daughter, Maria; and cats Knox and Socks. had at Great Mountain last summer. I am looking Connecticut. We serve as owner’s representatives technical design and permitting for new offshore graduation, I am still waiting to have my classmates am still at Dartmouth College (in my 10th year), (You’re welcome to visit if you’re here!) The Rivers forward to seeing you all in New Haven in October. for energy efficiency, renewable energy, and wind projects connected to New York and New visit Colombia. I continue to work at E3-Ecología, communicating our science on arsenic and mercury without Boundaries International Coalition, which Very busy here, working on some weird new drugs distributed generation projects, providing advice England. It’s an exciting time for the growing U.S. Economía y Ética, the institution I created almost from an environmental public health perspective. I coordinate, continues its quest in Amur River, and volunteering for the current 57 presidential and quality assurance oversight for public sector, offshore wind business and an important part of 10 years ago. We are coordinating the New Food The urgency of clean water for all comes up Lake Baikal, and other basins of Eurasia as well as candidates. On Saturday, I will get together with a as well as institutional and business clients. I focus the transition to a low-carbon energy future.” and Land Use Economy for Colombia (FOLU more and more in this work, and the need to wider policy work on river basin management in bunch of friends to read aloud from ‘My Life and on microgrids, resilience, and energy assurance Colombia), developing lots of actions on peace and Hard Times,’ written in 1933 by James Thurber for clients including the military, FBI, and convey to community members the importance class secretary countries affected by the Belt and Road Initiative the environment, promoting innovative financing and still a treat. It’s a great day. There is a certain municipalities. In 2019, we were bought by NV5, of prioritizing safe drinking water is high. There Katherine K. Farhadian, of China (see transrivers.org). All my activism mechanisms, and supporting climate change amount of eating and drinking involved.” expanding our service offerings. My wonderful is always more to do, but Jed and I are traveling [email protected] disguised as research on dams, transboundary programs. My two sons, Pietro and Antonio, are vicariously through our daughters, Brynne (23) 92 rivers, civil movements, strategic assessments, wife, Amy Dunn, and our 14- and 10-year-old happy studying at the University of Los Andes, and class secretaries and Marta (21), who are adventuring well beyond Mary Verner writes: “I’m immersed in responsibility etc. is collected at researchgate.net/profile/ daughters enjoy suburban life with our dog and Marco Ehrlich, my Italian husband, is acting as the Marie Gunning, our borders. Brynne works on a live-aboard dive for managing water rights and water supply for Eugene_Simonov. Turning 50 does not stop you cats. Interstitially I chip away at unpublished research director of the Amazon Research Institute [email protected] boat as a dive master in the Bahamas, helping the Washington State Department of Ecology and from being yourself. Hope to see you all someday, 95 novels and a family history book project. In 2016, of Colombia (Sinchi). I have one foot out as an Ciara O’Connell, [email protected] people learn about and appreciate the marine am enjoying the complexities. When not at work, somewhere.” I was diagnosed with ALS. I’m fortunate to be independent technical advisory panel member of world, and Marta is studying environmental I’m with my family restoring a small farm and its Ken Pruitt writes: “Hi, everyone. I hope all is progressing very slowly, and I’m hopeful for a cure the Green Climate Fund, flying frequently to Korea. class secretaries science and cultural and political ecology in Bhutan heritage barns in rural southwestern Washington. well with each of you and your families. I made a in my lifetime.” I would really like to see you all, here in the south.” Jane Calvin, [email protected] through the School for Field Studies for her junior Yalies are welcome to come visit!” semester abroad. Jed continues in his 18th year Jane Whitehill, class secretaries Cyril John “CJ” May writes: “Continuing my 94 Paul Calzada, [email protected] as pastor of South Congregational Church in class secretaries [email protected] use of ‘enviromagic’ in 2019 for environmental Concord, New Hampshire, and I am pushing solar Dean Gibson, Cynthia Henshaw Wood, [email protected] Jocelyn Forbush, [email protected] education is leading in strange directions. I used 97 panels for the church roof! Maybe Jed and I can [email protected] magic while lobbying the Connecticut Legislators’ 93 Beth Conover writes: “I’m five months into a Luisa Camera-Cabrales writes: “I got a year off make it to New Haven for our 30th! Be well, all.” Molly! Goodyear, [email protected] Environment Committee, levitating a bottle to from my current tenure position as professor Heather Merbs, [email protected] new job as the first director of The Salazar Center argue for the expansion of the Bottle Bill. I also Mary Nelligan Robbins writes: “As David Brooks for North American Conservation at Colorado from the Juarez State University of Tabasco changed $25 into $80 to showcase that the money so aptly describes in his new book, we are our Susan Helms Daley writes: “I’ve been busy with State University, created by former Secretary of (Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco). I am we save in recycling would be lost if we had to second mountain. So grateful for all that life has my two teenagers, leading tours in the Emerald the Interior Ken Salazar. Ken Snyder and I are the coordinator of Sembrando Vida (life planting), spend $80 to trash recyclables. Catholic schools given us. Our oldest son graduated with a history/ Necklace and helping our town reduce its carbon spending part of our time in Fort Collins, though a government agroforestry national program. I are responding to the pope’s encyclical about the theater double major and a minor in dance. He footprint (working with Mothers Out Front the center will eventually be part of the National coordinate for municipalities in southern Mexico environment and climate change, and I am getting is hoping to be accepted to Yale Drama to study and as a town meeting member, our very local Western Stock Show redevelopment in Denver. in Tabasco state. We are planning to establish dramaturgy. Our daughter is graduating with her legislature). It’s always a high point when I get to Focus is external, on convening partners on issues 50,000 hectares of agroforestry systems using connect with our amazing classmates!” of landscape connectivity, urban green space, and native trees for multiple uses (timber, fruit, etc.). growing diversity of stakeholders for conservation University of Vermont Forestry Professor Bill Keeton and Ken Pruitt Each participant or peasant will plant 2.5 hectares.” spent some quality time in Burlington on March 2.

50 YALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Let us know how you are doing! [email protected] CANOPY SPRING 2019 51 CLASS NOTES Jon Kohl writes: “I am happy to report that my class secretaries gearing up for the big fight in 2020. Hopefully we The second half contains a series of vignettes that class secretaries digital marketing and environmental consultancy. last book came out at the end of the year. It’s called Jennifer Garrison Ross, end up with elected officials who believe in science further demonstrate how to turn these theories into David Cherney, Through this I hope to continue freelance work but ‘The Interpretive Theme Writer’s Field Guide.’ It’s 99 [email protected] and climate change (among other things)!” real strategies for taking action. I’ve been using the 05 [email protected] mainly concentrate on environment/climate change a pocket companion to Sam Ham’s ‘Interpretation: Christiana Jones Soares, book to teach graduate courses and professional Dora Cudjoe, [email protected] communication. Please follow my environmental Making a Difference on Purpose: How to Write a [email protected] Harry White writes: “I’m still working in the seminars. Participants have consistently found Virginia Lacy, [email protected] Twitter (@MedusaonEarth) and science Twitter Strong Theme from Big Idea to Presentation.’ The trenches of land conservation going up against it useful. My graduate students have called it the Benjamin Urquhart, [email protected] (@360onHistory).” field guide is designed for anyone participating J. Ripley Heintz writes: “Salutations, friends! industrial foresters and loggers and their CliffsNotes to social science for environmental in communications related to heritage or Things are status quo here: Lillian, Evelyn, and I mythologies, most recently working on the problems — I think I’m OK with that description. Anamaria Aristizabal writes: “I have ventured into Gudmundur Ingi (Mummi) Gudbrandsson is environmental issues, where the objective is to live near Hartford. They are 12 and almost 10. I’m forever-wild protection of a 5,400-acre forest I wrote the book for busy, smart people who want the field of personal development and leadership now minister for the Environment and Natural deepen people’s understanding and relationship still a tree hugger, and they are my minions! We block in northern Vermont. I’m also working with to find new ways to approach super-challenging development in Colombia and the U.S., wrote my Resources for the Republic of Iceland. with the interpreted object rather than just educate started homeschooling in January to accommodate the Old Growth Forest Network as part of Dr. Joan people problems in their work. The book draws on first book in Colombia, and created a company or teach. Very important for park rangers, exhibit their learning styles, escape the anxiety, and focus Maloof ’s team. Happy days and bright skies to all decades of prior research in various social science called Leading Change Institute in the U.S. My Chris Meaney writes: “It’s been a while, F&ES! designers, sign writers, documentary makers, on what we love. It’s easier in some ways, harder of my F&ES friends.” fields in an effort to make it easy for readers to hope is to work with people like F&ESers who are After 11 great years in Washington, D.C., my and environmental educators. If interested, I in others. Thanks to all of you for sharing your consider new approaches to old problems.” being change agents in their communities.” family and I — wife Kristin, Hallie (5.5), and encourage you to use this Amazon link through adventures via Facebook and for meeting up when class secretaries Evan (2.5) — moved to Portland, Maine. I’m now which any purchase of items (including the book) time and distance permit. Will there be a fun 20th Leigh Cash, [email protected] class secretaries Ellen Brown writes: “I’m living in the U.K., near working for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service as the results in a donation for my nonprofit, the PUP reunion party for us in New Haven? Can you 01 Adam Chambers, Benjamin Hodgdon, Oxford, and working for the High Conservation Gulf of Maine coastal program project leader. My Global Heritage Consortium, whose mission is believe it’s been two decades?! We should donate/ [email protected] [email protected] Value Network, where our work focuses on staff and I work to identify, assess, protect, and Jennifer Grimm, [email protected] 03 identifying and conserving social and environmental restore important coastal fish and wildlife habitat to transform the current paradigm in heritage plan a scholarship like the Class of ’80 does.” Pete Land, [email protected] management and planning to a more holistic values in commodity production landscapes.” through voluntary partnerships in the Gulf of Dechen Dorji writes: “Happy greetings to focus: amzn.to/2IlhS6o.” class secretaries Katie Lange Dolan writes: “I recently published an Maine ecosystem. I’ve also been active with the Erika Schaub, [email protected] all! I am still working as the World Wildlife illustrated book about piping plover conservation, Sarah (Matheson) Mihalecz writes: “In April I National Conservation Leadership Institute as a class secretary Zikun Yu, [email protected] Fund country representative for Bhutan. I am written from the perspective of my sweet joined the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance as fellow and peer coach, which has been challenging 00 pleased to share the news that the innovative director of U.S. Energy Market Programs. I’m Seeking volunteers! Newfoundland, Bella. The book was featured and fun. Great seeing The Social Ogor last fall in Navis Bermudez writes: “I recently rejoined conservation fundraising project called Bhutan on the cover of the local newspaper. Check it out excited to work with this group to help companies the Windy City, and I look forward to seeing some 98 the House Committee on Transportation and for Life that I have been working on has now on Amazon!” transition to renewable energy.” of you in Maine.” George Berghorn writes: “I was appointed as Infrastructure, Subcommittee on Water Resources successfully reached its target of $43 million, and an adjunct assistant professor in the and Environment, where I work on Clean Water implementation will begin soon. These funds Laura Ruiz writes: “Hi, all. My teaching career class secretaries Christina (Zarrella) Milloy writes: “Hello, State University (MSU) Department of Forestry. Act issues. When I am not at work, I am busy will be spent on conservation and sustainable has now led me to teach science at a middle school Krista Anderson, everyone! I continue to work for the U.S. Fish This is in addition to my regular position as an running around after a toddler. My family and I development programs in the entire protected near my home in East Los Angeles. I work with 06 [email protected] & Wildlife Service (FWS) as a fish and wildlife assistant professor of construction management are looking forward to a trip to Glacier National areas of Bhutan. Wishing everyone happiness amazing kids and families in the Los Angeles Flora Chi, [email protected] biologist and was recognized with a STAR award at MSU, where my research focuses on mass Park this summer, and I’m hoping to catch up with and good health.” [email protected] Unified district. I am lucky I work close to home Reilly Dibner, [email protected] for my work partnering with The Wildlife Society timber construction and salvaged lumber reuse some F&ES friends here in D.C.!” and minutes from my two daughters’ school. I Sue Ely, [email protected] to recognize outstanding wildlife restoration into high-value engineered materials. In February miss the outdoors very much but plan to spend our Jill Savery, [email protected] program projects. FWS also supported my the student competition team that I coach won a Sylvia (Stone) Busby writes: “I recently went time off visiting places around California. Let me completion of a Women in Leadership certificate Saima Baig writes: “I recently moved to the national championship at the National Association back to working with The Nature Conservancy, know if you are up for a visit!” at Cornell University. After years of mentoring U.K. and now live in Liverpool. Before this, of Home Builders (NAHB) Student Competition, this time as a senior donor communications undergrad and grad students (at F&ES, Yale I was in Sri Lanka working as head of the where they competed against 36 other universities. officer. In 2018 I enjoyed seeing Maureen class secretaries University, and other schools), I’m excited to Regional Environmental Economics Program I was also named 2018 Outstanding Junior Cunningham and her family in New York, as well Keith Bisson, share that I recently launched a part-time coaching at the International Union for Conservation of Educator by NAHB.” as Colin Apse and his family in Joshua Tree! My [email protected] business to help young professionals navigate 04 Nature Asia, and then as a freelance consultant in family and I live in San Diego and are enjoying Daniela Vizcaino, [email protected] life and career transitions. I offer an F&ES David Konisky writes: “I am on the faculty at this year’s ‘Super Bloom!’” Jennifer Bass Vogel, [email protected] Pakistan. Now I have started my own company discount! A portion of profits supports homeless the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Laura Wooley, [email protected] called DoLocal Ltd., which has two functions: youth (the same organization that helped me Affairs at University, where I was recently Ali Abuyuan Monge writes: “Since December when I was a homeless teen). Learn more at promoted to full professor. I live in Bloomington 2016, I have helped run a federal hybrid super Liz Martin Perera writes: “Happy 2019, my dear sunstonecoachingcompany.com.” with my wife, Kristen; our two boys, Ben (10) and PAC and social welfare organization based fellow F&ESers! I am still pushing hard for climate in Orange County, California (a longtime action as climate policy director for the Sierra Club Alison Rau writes: “I live in the greater Hartford, Will (7); and our dog, Winston.” Dechen Dorji at 4,428 meters, glacial lake … melting fast! Republican bastion). As vice president of Women in Washington, D.C. I am proud to be working with Connecticut, area with my husband and two Jennifer Rusiecki writes: “I am living in the D.C. for American Values and Ethics, I help lead a Marc Stern writes: “Hey, all. I published a book in a bunch of fellow F&ESers both on and off Capitol children — just welcomed a little girl last year area with my husband, Raj, and two kids, Calum large group of motivated and passionate women 2018 I think might be useful for F&ESers working Hill, and it’s great to see us all tackling the climate to join her big brother! I am in state service as (10) and Iona (9). There is lots of baseball, advance progressive values and ethics, particularly around the world. It’s called ‘Social Science Theory crisis. Alex Perera, a director of energy at World an attorney with the Department of Emergency ballet, and band in our lives. On the professional in the fields of immigration, the environment, and for Environmental Sustainability: a Practical Resources Institute, and I are the most challenged Services and Public Protection.” front, I’m faculty at the Uniformed Services civil rights. As a PAC, we support and endorse Guide,’ published by Oxford University Press. The when we are running after our two future University in Bethesda, teaching environmental candidates who align with our mission. We made a basic premise is that sustainability challenges are changemakers, Lia (10) and Aiden (8). Please reach and occupational epidemiology and doing research huge impact in the past midterm elections, helping first and foremost people challenges. The book out to me to catch up! Peace and love to you all.” on the health of oil spill responders, pesticide flip four key Orange County congressional districts provides concise descriptions of over 30 social applicators, and military populations. Life is busy from red to blue and contributing to the victories science theories and how to use them to develop and good! Hello to all my fellow F&ESers!” of several down-ballot candidates. We are currently strategies for environmental problem-solving. Saima Baig

52 YALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Let us know how you are doing! [email protected] CANOPY SPRING 2019 53 CLASS NOTES class secretary a senior global manager, and throughout this cooking classes. Currently we are planting our and W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics Seeking volunteers! time I have led the sustainability group, the garden and dreaming up clever ways to improve at UBC. I am also a research associate at the 07 company’s organic agriculture strategy, and now our 1910 home by expanding into the unfinished Vancouver School of Theology. My latest project Connect with more than 1,200 F&ES alumni and am focused on the research and development attic space. We now have the skills; if only we had is developing some interactive online workshops students around the globe and across the decades. Jenna Bourne writes: “My family and I moved group working on global scientific programs for the time! through my Holyscapes Project. Come visit!” Jobs, events, and mentoring — all on one site! to the Burlington, Vermont, area last July so I berry production. But more importantly, I have a “Reading Canopy brings back so many fond could take on a challenging new role as global 2-year-old son, Luke, who I hope one day becomes memories of my too-short but very meaningful Chelsea Chandler writes: “Scott Laeser ’08 and Scan the QR code to be directed to more information sustainability manager at Ben & Jerry’s, where I’m an environmentalist.” time at F&ES. I love hearing what everyone is up to. I welcomed our daughter, Maya, to this beautiful or visit yalefes.alumnifire.com. focusing on our climate strategy and sustainable Though out of the way in , I am always world on Valentine’s Day. We also remodeled our packaging. We’re settling into Vermont life with delighted to see a familiar face. If you are ever near farmhouse, which includes many energy-efficient black bears in our backyard, a very long ski season, the Equality State, be sure to give a shout.” features and a geothermal system, and are looking and ice cream for certain. My two little boys are forward to having lots of visitors.” excited to be joined by a little sister this summer. Kelsey Kidd Wharton writes: “In this past year I People Partnership (SNAPP). These workshops, alongside the Holmes/Neumans, the DeCews, Please reach out if you’re in the area — I’d love to quit my job working as a science writer for Arizona Eric Desatnik writes: “I (still) lead global which ran for two years, looked at trade-offs and the Elickers ’09, the Freibergs, the O’Rourke/ hear from you.” State University to make more time for my own communications for the XPRIZE Foundation, synergies around agriculture, food production, Horotans, and the Reed/Nixons ’08. Life is writing and podcasting, as well as my two growing where we design and operate multimillion- and forest conservation in sub-Saharan Africa, fulfilling in New Haven! New breweries, gyms, Jamie Howland writes: “After many years of boys. It was so much fun to see so many classmates dollar competitions to bring about technological a critical topic for our region, which is trying to and restaurants keep popping up. And the music working with a long list of fellow F&ES alumni at at the reunion in October! We fell into the fun breakthroughs that benefit humanity. A couple balance food production and forest conservation. scene is alive. Let us know when you come visit!” Acadia Center/Environment Northeast, my wife, camaraderie we always enjoyed, and it was a treat of prizes we may launch soon are related to coral “It was a nice surprise to bump into Stephen

Rebecca Furer (Yale College ’95), and I moved to meet several little foresters in training. Can’t reef restoration, atmospheric CO2 extraction, and Wood ’11 at TNC offices in Nairobi, Kenya, and Hui Rodomsky writes: “My husband and I with our two daughters, ages 8 and 11, to Bonn wait to do it again!” the Amazon rainforest, so get in touch if there’s learn that he now advises TNC on issues related welcomed our son early this year. Our toddler last summer, where I have taken a position with synergy. Also, I still play pub trivia and do escape to soils. daughter is especially excited about the new baby! I the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat. We are all class secretaries rooms, so my life isn’t that serious.” “Eliezeri Sungusia, Baruani Mshale ’08, started a new position with the Department Tamara Muruetagoiena and friends on a field trip to Costa Rica. enjoying living in Germany and getting to explore Luke Bassett, [email protected] Abdalla Shah ’05, and Geofrey Mwanjelwa of Land Conservation and Development, headed many new places. While I’m thousands of miles class secretaries Paul Beaton, Frederica Helmiere writes: “Jordan Jobe and ’11 make up the small F&ES community in Dar by Jim Rue ’83. I am serving local jurisdictions 10 Nathan Karres live a block away in South Seattle. away from New Haven, it’s hard to be far from Angelica Afanador Ardila, [email protected] es Salaam I interact with often. We rekindle our on Oregon’s south coast, assisting them with F&ES, as I discovered in my first few days of work [email protected] Clara Fang, [email protected] Jordan is research associate faculty at Washington F&ES traditions once in a while (barbecues, happy land use issues. At my first staff meeting with the that Nalin Srivastava is just down the hall from me 08 William Lynam, [email protected] State University, focusing on floodplain department, I had the pleasure of witnessing Jim Kelsey Kidd Wharton, [email protected] hours, networking, and the like). at the Secretariat.” Kristin Tracz, [email protected] management issues. Nathan works for the Global “Last year was particularly nice for me as, for getting pied in the face.” Meg Arenberg writes: “I’ve been living in (and Daniella Aburto Valle, Water team at The Nature Conservancy. I’m on the first time, TNC decided to have a country Brandon (Berkeley) Middaugh writes: “I am loving) Philadelphia for a couple of years now [email protected] the global staff of the United Religions Initiative, director, and I happened to be the first person to currently leading distributed energy innovation on and am excited to have begun a job this fall at the a grassroots interfaith network that, among other occupy that position. I am surrounded by good, the energy and sustainability team at Microsoft. University of Pennsylvania that truly combines my Paul Beaton writes: “Hello, beloved and most things, works to bring together faith communities intelligent, hard-working people and so am a My husband, Mark Middaugh, and I are also myriad interests and experience. Check out the awesome Class of 2010! I’ve relocated to Melbourne, around environmental issues. My two botanically happy fella. eagerly awaiting the arrival of our son later this Penn Program in Environmental Humanities at Australia, where I try to hang as often as possible with named youngest daughters, Sage and Juniper, “This year, my son, 16, made the 24 percent cut spring. We’ve enjoyed seeing Claire Gagne, Dawn ppehlab.org.” the most wonderful Steph Niall and family and my are in preschool together. Our families frequently to participate in the Yale Young Global Scholars Lippert, and Anton Chiono ’08 in our recent West beloved, Katy Mixter ’17. On the way here I wound gather together wearing clashing patterns.” summer academic enrichment and leadership Coast adventures.” Georgia Basso writes: “Heading up to New Haven down my work at the National Academy of Sciences program for outstanding high school students. As for our 10th reunion was great. So much fun to and then undertook an intensive mindfulness Kathayoon Khalil writes: “In May, I will be if that was not enough, he secured $5,000 (out of Hannah Murray writes: “In the spring of 2018, be together and celebrate Sarah Charlop-Powers meditation retreat/mental training (14 hours leaving my job at the Seattle Aquarium to take $6,250) to cover full tuition, including boarding, Nelson and I moved back to the U.S. from ’09 and a few birthdays (Jamie Carlson ’09 and per day) in Myanmar. Right now, I’m benefiting a new position at the Oregon Zoo. I’ll be their for the two weeks he will be in New Haven. I Patagonia and settled in midcoast Maine. I spent Brenna Vredeveld)! Can’t believe it’s been 10 years, from all of Kyle Wayne Williams’ work to develop first conservation impact manager, developing could not ask for more and count my blessings. I my first year managing the forestry program but like a fine wine, we are even better with age.” Designing Your Life tools for us all as I engineer a and evaluating the zoo’s local and international hope they get to enjoy Pepe’s Pizza and explore the of the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners professional pivot away from policy work to support conservation work. If you’re ever in the area, ingenious work of what F&ES is today! Association and then switched gears to work Ashley (Roberts) Joy writes: “This year marks come visit!” Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development Director commercializing environmental technologies — and “Last but not least, I know some of you pass by Jim Rue getting pied because his office won the food drive. with The Humane League, an organization that 10 years together for Matt and me, as well as our more toward actually commercializing. Amid all Dar (that is what we call our city), so please let us Lucy Magembe writes: “Hi, fellow F&ESers. campaigns to improve the lives of farmed animals. two-year marriage anniversary as the Joys! Here is that, I started training to teach mindfulness and know of your presence so we can host you in F&ES Daniella Aburto Valle writes: “I reinvented my Always proud to be an alum! I continue to live I manage an international grants program that a little of what has helped the last decade speed by managed to connect with many wonderful F&ESers style.” life, taking on some big changes over the past two supports activists dedicated to ending the abuse of for us: Last summer we co-founded a construction across the country. Love you all!” in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and this is my sixth years: I moved to Australia, switched from big animals raised for food. It feels like a good fit for business called Captain Hammer Construction. year with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) — I am Casey Ruth Pickett writes: “New Haven is home corporate to a tech startup, and — the most joyful me, and while I’m no longer working in forestry, We just completed our first beautiful spec home. I Jason M. Brown writes: “Hello, Yalies! Having loving it. I’ve been engaging with fellow F&ESers for Anna Ruth Pickett and me and our two kids, change of all — became a mother.” I get out in the woods as much as I can and am loved choosing all of the finish materials, including graduated from the Institute for Resources, and have been blessed recently to bump into a few Tusker and Haven, who just turned 8 and 6 this enjoying living in and exploring the nation’s most stunning natural red oak floors throughout. I Environment, and Sustainability at the University more familiar faces. week. Tusker wants to be a farmer, but maybe not forested state.” continue to explore the relationship among soil of British Columbia (UBC), I am currently “Xiaoting Hou Jones and I participated in to be famous because it would be a hassle to always health, quality food, human health, and natural teaching environmental and religious studies four workshops organized by her organization have to stop and sign autographs. And Haven Tamara Muruetagoiena writes: “I live in the healing. Matt and I have even been teaching a few courses at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, (the International Institute for Environment and wants to be a basketball player, and Batman, and California Bay Area, where I have been working British Columbia. I am also working on a project as Development), funded by Science for Nature and to stop climate change. We are raising our kids for Driscoll’s berry company for six years. I am a joint research associate at the Faculty of Forestry

54 YALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Let us know how you are doing! [email protected] CANOPY SPRING 2019 55 CLASS NOTES class secretaries and real sector clients. Monica works for an Jaimini Parekh writes: “After working as a Sharon Smith writes: “I’m delighted to be moving Brendan Guy and his wife, Kate, moved to London, class secretaries Margaret Arbuthnot, information technology firm providing survey legal fellow with Communities for a Better to Bali, Indonesia, in June 2019 in order to where Brendan continues to work for the Natural Mohammad Aatish Khan, 11 [email protected] tools for political campaigns. Come visit!” Environment, I am now an associate attorney with continue my consulting work to tackle palm oil- Resources Defense Council on international 16 [email protected] Lucien Bouffard, [email protected] Earthjustice in its Northwest office. Jon Smith and driven deforestation. I support many of the largest climate policy, while Kate completes her DPhil Nicholas McClure, [email protected] Elizabeth Friedlander, [email protected] class secretaries I work together (though he is in New York), which buyers, traders, and producers of palm oil to in climate security and governance at Oxford Paloma Caro Torres, [email protected] Gabriel Mejias, [email protected] Simon De Stercke, is awesome! I am enjoying Seattle, and it reminds implement their sustainability commitments and University. They are enjoying travels across the Mariana Vedoveto, [email protected] Randal Strobo, [email protected] 12 [email protected] me of New Haven. I also recently adopted the transform their supply chains. If you’re passing isles and the continent and warmly welcome all Lisa Veliz Waweru, [email protected] Naazia Ebrahim, [email protected] sweetest pup, Milo, who is intelligent and reminds through Bali or living in the region, please reach visitors for a cuppa and cake at their flat nestled Erin Clark writes: “I am now advocating on behalf Alison Schaffer, [email protected] me that animals have emotions too!” out — am looking forward to building a new life alongside Hampstead Heath in northwest London. Stefanie (Wnuck) Keohane writes: “I am enjoying of Montana’s wildest landscapes as the western Leigh Whelpton, [email protected] and community there. And my villa will always be digging in on electric utility regulation and energy Montana field director for the Montana Wilderness open to F&ES guests!” Vanessa Lamers writes: “I became a mom to a new policy issues working at the Connecticut Public Association. One of my priority campaigns is the Howard Chang writes: “Hi, all! My wife, a School little forester in October 2018 and just recently Utilities Regulatory Authority. My husband, Ryan, Blackfoot Clearwater Stewardship Act, which of Management graduate, and I just bought in class secretaries joined the board of the Potomac Riverkeeper and I are also thrilled to welcome our first baby would add nearly 78,000 acres to the Bob Marshall Berkeley and are moving soon from San Francisco. Judith Ament, Network, which covers Maryland, D.C., and this summer!” Wilderness Complex. I’m still based in Missoula. Life is busy these days with a 15-month-old boy. [email protected] Virginia watersheds. Would love to connect with He’s awesome and full of energy. I work at East 13 Fairuz Loutfi writes: “In March 2019, a group of Come visit!” Adedana Ashebir, [email protected] local alums interested in a swimmable Potomac!” Bay Community Energy, the community-choice Rebecca de Sa, [email protected] F&ES students visited Mexico City as part of a field Erin Derrington writes: “Greetings, dear F&ES energy provider to Alameda County.” Laura Johnson, [email protected] class secretaries trip. Lucia Ruiz ’13 organized a dinner for current cohort — my how time flies. On October 1, 2018, Victoria Lockhart, [email protected] William Georgia, F&ES students and fellow alumni at Restaurante I started my new position as the natural resources Soojin Kim writes: “I am based in Sacramento, [email protected] Covadonga, and we had a great time.” California, and working remotely for a Korea- 14 planning manager for the Office of Planning Catherine Doyle-Capitman writes: “In August Chetana Kallakuri, [email protected] and Development for the Commonwealth of the based intergovernmental organization, Asian 2018, I earned my Ph.D. in the human dimensions Lin Shi, [email protected] Northern Mariana Islands. It was a particularly Forest Cooperation Organization. I am happy of natural resource management from Cornell Cary Simmons, [email protected] active typhoon season here in the Pacific and on to report that this job brings me back to the Asia University. My dissertation research focused on Karen Tuddenham, [email protected] October 25, 2018, Super Typhoon Yutu caused region and actually I am writing this in Myanmar.” Jaimini Parekh and her dog Milo at the Seattle Arboretum. collaborative landscape conservation planning significant damage to the islands of Saipan and Iro Altraide Sam-Woruka writes: “I am happy and was funded by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Austin Lord writes: “I am currently living in Lakshmi Krishnan writes: “After working in a Tinian. With wind gusts exceeding 200 mph, we to reconnect with everyone! I am currently in Service. In September I got married in Millbrook, Nepal and conducting research for my Ph.D. technical advisory body secretariat, I shifted back were lucky it wasn’t worse. Despite the challenges the northern Virginia/greater Washington, D.C., New York, to Ryan Lamb, whom I’ve known in anthropology at Cornell University. My to India on April 1 and am looking for jobs in the of recovery, we also now have an opportunity area. Building on experience from previous years since I was 14 and who is a solicitor for the U.S. current work focuses on the social and political climate change/natural resources space. At least it to incorporate resiliency discussions into the of managing projects in a variety of sectors, I Department of the Interior. I loved having some dimensions of post-earthquake recovery, disaster gave me the time to return to an old haunt — a comprehensive sustainable development plan, recently took several certifications and now work of my wonderful F&ES friends there to celebrate risk reduction, and infrastructure development in forest where a part of my heart lies (Kanha), which which my office is producing. If you have any as an information technology project manager for with us. In November, after our honeymoon northern Nepal. I’ll be based in Nepal until May is where I am sitting and writing this.” planning insights you’d like to share, or if you Unisys Federal Services. Boma is now 9 years old, backcountry camping throughout the Southwest, 2020 and then go back and forth between Ithaca happen to make it out to visit or have interest in I started a job as a presidential management fellow and Washington, D.C., thereafter — let me know Sameer Kwatra writes: “I am completing four and she’s still the most delightful kid you’ll ever working in our lovely island chain, please drop in the Washington, D.C., office of the U.S. Forest if you come through Kathmandu!” years working on climate change and clean energy meet! We always look forward to driving up to Lucia Ruiz organized a dinner with F&ES students and alumni in me a line. Here’s to cocreating better tomorrows!” New Haven, Connecticut, where she loves to grill Service, where I am a social scientist within the Mexico City. with the Natural Resources Defense Council; five Lily Sweikert writes: “Has it really been five whole [email protected] Gordon Geballe and Scott Rummage with endless forest system. Well, 2018 was a year for the books years as the dad of a curious, energetic, delightful years?! My how time flies! Well, I finished my questions. Hopefully we’ll stop by soon.” ... and thinking about all those activities makes me Sabrina Szeto writes: “I will be moving to Munich, Gabriel Mejias writes: “Monica and I are still little girl; and seven years as a denizen of D.C., a want to take a nap!” Ph.D. late 2017 and relocated to D.C. in August Germany, in June 2019 and will miss the F&ES city that offers incredible diversity and the option living in D.C. with our daughter, Andrea, who just Emily Schosid writes: “I’m still living the dream 2018. I am currently an American Association community in New Haven very much. It has to live a full life without depending on personal turned 18 months! I’ve been at the International in Denver, riding my bike around parks and for the Advancement of Science science and been a joy working with students and applying cars. It is always a pleasure to meet with fellow Finance Corp. working on environmental and along rivers; playing with my stupid dog, Banjo; technology policy fellow hosted by the U.S. Agency geospatial analysis toward land management and F&ESers, so do get in touch if you are around.” social risk management for financial institutions and running the Center for Sustainability at the for International Development. I would love to conservation goals these past three years. Looking connect with other alumni staying in or passing forward to connecting with F&ESers based in Daniela Marini writes: “Hi, all! I am wrapping University of Denver. My intern army is up to 50! It’s insane, to say the least. My tiny apartment still through the D.C./Maryland/Virginia area! I hope Europe in the future!” up my dissertation in geography at the University you’re all doing well!” of Colorado, Boulder, and I’ll be soon looking for has room for guests, so give me a holler if you’re ever passing through town.” class secretaries academic or consulting jobs. In the last five years, class secretaries David McCarthy, besides hiking a lot, skiing, and dipping in hot Sarah (Uhl) Smith writes: “I’m still with Clean Akiva Fishman, [email protected] springs, I’ve been working on agrarian [email protected] 17 Air Task Force (catf.us), working on staving off Rebecca Shively, [email protected] transformations, toxicity, and race in Argentina. 15 catastrophic climate change by day and chasing David Gonzalez, [email protected] Emily Wier, [email protected] In particular, I’m looking at whiteness working around my curious toddler for what feels like all Philip Kunhardt, [email protected] Farrukh Zaman, [email protected] in and through demands for food sovereignty night. Seacoast New Hampshire is lovely in the Frances Sawyer, [email protected] in contestation of genetically modified soy summer — come visit!” Eric Vermeiren, [email protected] Laura Hammett writes: “I’ve been living in agribusiness. I combine ethnographic methods Catherine Doyle-Capitman celebrated her wedding in September Bangkok, Thailand, for the past year, where I have with surveys and mapping. My project is aimed at 2018 with friends from F&ES. Jess Scott writes: “As an Empire fellow (with been working on climate adaptation programming supporting and informing emerging agroecological fellow F&ESer Mikael Cejtin ’13) on New York with the U.N. Development Programme. It would transitions as a political praxis for socio- Gov. Cuomo’s environmental team, I recently be great to see other classmates who are living in or Gabriel Mejias with wife Monica and daughter Andrea. environmental transformation.” helped ban plastic bags statewide!” passing through the region!”

56 YALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY & ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Let us know how you are doing! [email protected] CANOPY SPRING 2019 57 CLASS NOTES IN MEMORIAM Will Koh writes: “After studying food systems and Annie Guo writes: “I can’t believe it’s almost been pollution and promote sustainable agricultural industrial animal agriculture at F&ES, I’m currently a year since I was at F&ES. Since graduating, I’ve practices in the River basin, ultimately focused on defining concepts of sustainable diets had the good fortune to work alongside three remediating the Gulf of Mexico’s dead zone.” that consider public health outcomes from food F&ESers at two different jobs (both I’d consider to IN MEMORIAM Hannah Peragine writes: “Like Cait, I was also consumption and environmental changes from be dream jobs). And I feel gratified to be in close John O. Batson ’50 M.F. (1925–2019) passed away on February 5, 2019, Natural Resources Conservation Authority and served as chairman of the recently married. Paul and I celebrated a year of food production. I am a researcher in the Nutrition contact with a number of folks who made my time in Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Inducted into the Mississippi National Irrigation Commission as well as in high posts in the ministries marriage in May and have been navigating the Department at Harvard’s School of Public at F&ES the amazing experience it was.” Forestry Hall of Fame in 2011, Batson was a lumber industry veteran whose of agriculture, forestry, water, and mineral resources. Brown brought joys and heartbreaks of being foster parents. Health (HSPH), focused on the emerging field ambition and love of adventure took him around the southern U.S. and entrepreneurial creativity to his public service, during which he inaugurated I am thrilled to have returned to F&ES as your of planetary health nutrition. In mid-April, I am the world. According to local legend, Batson came to the attention of the a highly successful program of reclamation at bauxite mining sites, initiated dedicated development and alumni services going to embark on a multi-month research trip Hammond, , business community when he walked into Citizens a rural electrification program through a private-public collaboration, officer! I look forward to magnifying the impact to Kiribati to study how the health of coral reefs Bank to open an account carrying a briefcase filled with a million dollars in reorganized the Forestry Department, and founded the Rural Agricultural of F&ES alumni in the world by connecting you impacts fisheries and local seafood intake. This cash. Batson was one of the first in the industry to hire a woman as a sawmill Authority. all to one another. Join Alumnifire, and come to fall, I’ll start the M.P.H. program in nutrition at manager and to set up a pension plan for his sawmill workers. Through it all he never forgot his roots at F&ES — he returned as a visiting reunion (October 11–13)!” HSPH with a focus on planetary health.” Batson is survived by his six children — John O. Batson III of Lake Oswego, professor in 1979–80 to organize and lead a spectacular faculty/student field Oregon; Molly Batson Smith of Atlanta, Georgia; Florence Blair Batson trip to Jamaica. The trip was one of the first to provide an integrated approach Kevin Terry Lee writes: “I just moved to the San of Jackson, Mississippi; Bryan Batson Jauregui of Todos Santos, Mexico; to natural resources, including wildlife, marine, and montane ecosystems. Diego area, where I now serve as the environmental Andrew Batson of Seattle, Washington; and Virginia Batson of Collingswood, In 2013, Brown received the Order of Jamaica, the nation’s fifth highest impact and compliance specialist at Dr. Bronner’s — and his four grandchildren — Bryan Smith of Athens, Georgia; honor, for exceptional and exemplary service in agriculture. Brown was — known for its peppermint soaps and regenerative Annie Smith of San Francisco, California; and Griffin Batson Grant and educated at the University of New Brunswick, the Caribbean Graduate School organic agriculture efforts. I live two blocks away Tristan Batson Grant of Collingswood, New Jersey. of Theology, and Oxford University in addition to the Yale School of Forestry. from the beach and invite anyone to visit!” Annie Guo with members of the Class of 2018. Brown was in his 14th year of ministry in the Methodist Church in the Yishen Li, Daniela Rossi, and Laurel Low write: Lester Bradford ’51 M.F. (1926–2019) passed away on March 3, 2019, in class secretaries Caribbean and the Americas. He previously served the Church of God in “Strong ties built at F&ES continue to flourish Mount Vernon, Washington. Bradford grew up on a farm in Maine where his Nikola Alexandre, Jamaica from 1983 to 2004. at our workplace! How incredible and fortunate family farmed with horses and oxen. A tail gunner and a librarian under the [email protected] 18 it is for us three to become colleagues again at Army Specialized Reserve Program, Bradford took advantage of the GI Bill to Dr. Amanda Moss Cowan ’07 M.E.M. (1961–2019) passed away on Eve Boyce, [email protected] the Environmental Protection Agency Office of attend Yale for his bachelor’s in natural sciences and master’s in forestry. At February 20, 2019, in Providence, Rhode Island. Cowan was born in Caroline Hobbs, [email protected] Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds through the Yale, he met and fell in love with a young doctor, Winifred Ruth Smith. When Memphis, Tennessee. She was an assistant professor of management at Katherine Richard, [email protected] same Oak Ridge Institute fellowship program! F&ESers braved the cold and damp to celebrate love with Hannah Peragine in May 2018. the need for a doctor opened in Sierra Leone and Winnie went, Bradford took a the University of Rhode Island College of Business Administration. She Weiyang Zhao, [email protected] Dani and Laurel work for the Partnership special course for missionaries in agriculture at Cornell University, made a case earned her doctorate in management at Oxford University, with a focus on Santiago Zindel, [email protected] Programs branch to facilitate on-the-ground to the mission board, and crossed the ocean by freighter to marry her. They organizational theory and strategy. Cowan was fascinated by the intersection conservation and restoration efforts with local and had five children in Sierra Leone and returned to the U.S. in 1968, whereupon of business and the natural environment and concentrated her research in this Caitlin Chiquelin writes: “I was married in late regional stakeholders through the National Estuary March with my F&ES classmates by my side. In Bradford earned his doctorate of education from Louisiana State University. area. Prior to completing her doctorate, she earned a master’s degree at Yale and Urban Waters programs. Yishen supports The family moved to Mount Vernon, Washington, but continued to travel the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. She also has degrees from East fact, Kevin Dahms was the officiant, and Holly the Hypoxia Task Force to help reduce nutrient McLaughlin caught my bouquet!” world. The family lived and worked in Juba, Khartoum, Sudan, Peshawar, and Tennessee State University and the University of . Before embarking on Pakistan, and after retirement Bradford traveled overseas to perform volunteer a career in academia, she worked as a restaurant chef, a technical writer, and a jobs in Zimbabwe, Bolivia, Brazil, the Ukraine, Indonesia, and Haiti. computer programmer. Bradford was an avid hiker and polyglot (speaking French, Spanish, Latin, German, Kono, Mende, Krio, and Russian). His obituary on Legacy.com Paul M. Haack ’61 M.F. (1926–2019) passed away on April 8, 2019, REUNION informs readers that “Lester lived a life guided by his spirit of love, kindness, in Orlando, Florida. Haack was a sergeant in the U.S. Army. He was born 2019 humor, and infinite curiosity, which affected all who had the privilege in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and attended Rufus King High School before of knowing him.” Peter Arnold ’51 writes: “Lester’s accomplishments enrolling at the University of , where he received a bachelor’s in the fields of forestry and agroforestry are, in my opinion, the most degree in forestry/wildlife, and the Yale School of Forestry, where he received outstanding of any of our class, indeed of all alumni.” a master’s in forestry. Haack spent most of his life outdoors, working as a Bradford is survived by his wife, Winifred; sister, Carolyn Williams; research statistician for the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife brother, Kenny; and children Dorcas Lee, Julie Ann, Ethan Robert, and Service. He was elected as a fellow to the Explorers Club for his dedication and Melinda Grace (predeceased by Joel Everett). service to this cause. Haack enjoyed canoeing and made several annual trips to Canada and The Rev. Dr. Garnet Brown ’64 M.F. (1935–2019) passed away on January Alaska. He is survived by his wife, Kathy; his son; two grandsons; and a great- 19, 2019, in Jamaica. A recipient of the F&ES Alumni Association Board granddaughter. Distinguished Alumni Award, Brown serves as a prime example of the F&ES commitment to train professionals to go back to their countries and — by their excellence and the force of their convictions — establish sustainable development based on an ethic of land stewardship. Brown was an advisor to prime ministers and represented Jamaica on the international stage. As a senior consultant to the United Nations Development Programme and the World Bank, he founded the Rural Management and SAVE THE DATE October 11–13 Training Institute in Nigeria, which is still called “Garnet Brown’s building.” A dedicated public servant in his homeland of Jamaica, Brown founded the

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At the time Kent was director of the from Latin American John Grim, and Andrew Angyal Learning Because most of us can’t comprehend what North Methow Beaver Project in central Washington, which live-traps “nuisance beavers” Press (2019) Corporate Leaders Columbia University Press edited by Tonia Gray and America looked like before fur traders arrived, — animals that are blocking up culverts, flooding yards, or cutting down trees. (2019) Ospreys are one of the few bird edited by Daniel C. Esty Denise Mitten trapping millions of beavers from the continent’s The project relocates those beavers to headwater streams high in the Okanogan- species found throughout the Anthem Press (2019) Thomas Berry (1914–2009) Palgrave Macmillan (2018) rivers and lakes. Wenatchee National Forest. The idea is that up there the beavers can create world, but not so long ago these was one of the 20th century’s most Businesses across Latin America Women often pursue careers in the In his book, “Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life fantastic wildlife habitat and store water without damaging private property. magnificent birds were under threat prescient and profound thinkers. have increasingly integrated outdoors to lead and teach in natural of Beavers and Why They Matter,” which recently I realized that my mental model of what aquatic ecosystems should look like of extinction. During the 1950s As a cultural historian, he sought a sustainability principles into their environments, hopeful that excellence won the 2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science omitted beavers. I started to realize that beavers are a really important landscape- and ’60s, scientists linked the broader perspective on humanity’s corporate cultures. “The Labyrinth supersedes age, gender, socioeconomic Writing Award, Goldfarb makes the case that scale actor in North America and that I needed to revise my conception of a decline of osprey populations to the relationship to the earth in order status, disability, or ethnicity. Research healthy stream to include these incredible rodents. of Sustainability” capitalizes on the near eradication of these once ubiquitous widespread use of DDT and other to respond to the ecological and this trend, offering a collection of and collective experience, however, pollutants, before conservation and social challenges of our times. This rodents had a profound impact on the continent’s case studies generated through suggest that many women feel What lessons can humans learn from beavers as we try to species resilience brought them first biography of Berry illuminates landscapes and ecosystems. We recently spoke the Latin American Corporate marginalized and undervalued. address our own environmental challenges? back. In a new book, Alan Poole his remarkable vision and its with Goldfarb, who described the vital role of Sustainability Analysis project, “The Palgrave International Handbook To me the fundamental lesson of beaver restoration, and of the book, is the ’76 M.F.S. — one of the nation’s continuing relevance for achieving an initiative convened by the of Women and Outdoor Learning,” these “ecosystem engineers”; how a growing importance of working with nature rather than against it. As a species, our inclination foremost experts on ospreys — transformative social change and Yale Center for Environmental co-edited by Denise Mitten ’77 coalition is trying to restore their populations; is to dominate nature — to channelize streams, pave over wetlands, and clearcut has written a lyrical exposé of environmental renewal. The book, Law and Policy in conjunction M.F.S., celebrates the knowledge of and how they can help humankind fight drought, forests. One of the mantras of those who work in beaver restoration is “let the these creatures, describing their which will be published in June, with partner institutions in Latin female practitioners, featuring women improve water quality, and even address rodent do the work.” This animal can provide us a huge amount of help — storing daily habits and exploring their was co-authored by Mary Evelyn America. In an introduction, scholars from many fields — including climate change. water, improving water quality, creating wildlife habitat, even sequestering carbon relationship with the environment. Tucker and John Grim, senior Daniel Esty, Hillhouse Professor experiential outdoor education, — if we learn to work with it, to coexist with it, to outsource some of our labor to it. The illustrated book chronicles the lecturers and research scholars at of Environmental Law and Policy adventure education, adventure — KEVIN DENNEHY Rather than dominating the natural world, beaver work is really about cooperating bird’s migratory habits, its vital F&ES and co-directors of the Yale at F&ES, argues for what he calls therapy, and gender studies. It with it. 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