By Sara Santiago ’19 MF
Over the summer of 2022, MF and MFS graduates of the Class of 2022 settled into new jobs, Forest Crew, and more.
Many of our graduates continue their research or work associated with Yale Forests. Walker Cammack ’22 MF joined Lecturer Marlyse Duguid’s USDA grant team as a postgraduate fellow with Karam Shaeban ’20 MF to develop the Northeast Forest Farmers Coalition. Cammack is also set to become Director of the Smokey House Center in Vermont, an NGO demonstrating food security through forest farming, agroforestry, and forest management. Will Weinberg ’22 MFS is working on his thesis research on soil carbon in Northeastern silvopastures as a research scientist at the School. Cecilia Rogers ’22 MFS also continues to work on her thesis research on soil carbon in Panama’s agroforests. Ryan Smith ’23 MF continued his studies on estimating above ground carbon storage in complex village tree gardens in Sri Lanka over the summer and will graduate after another semester.
Kyle Lemle ’22 MF, Musa Joko ’22 MF (and heading into a year-long internship), and Chris DeFiore ’22 MF (entering a position as an urban forester as well as teaching forest ecology and taxonomy at Naugatuck Community College in Connecticut) joined Forest Crew at Yale-Myers Forest, refining and practicing their skills in tree identification, stand mapping, inventorying, and timber marking.
Brad Ward ’22 MF worked as a researcher for the Yale Applied Science Synthesis Program (YASSP) over the summer and is headed to Stanford for his MBA in the spring. Eudora Miao ’22 MF joined other alums at The Forestland Group as a carbon analyst and forester.
Hannah Andrews ’22 MF worked on a research project focused on pine forest restoration in Colorado and is now a landscape GIS planner in Vermont. Genevieve Tarino ’22 MF also worked on pine forest restoration and is now a practicing forester in California.
Yihong Zhu ’22 MFS is continuing her studies as a doctoral student in the Departmental of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California, Berkeley. Her focus is on forest carbon dynamics and natural climate solutions, with her first project on carbon dynamic of forests under fire surrogate management in the Sierra Nevada.
