As a leading example for offering online courses and certifications within Yale University, the Environmental Leadership & Training Initiative (link is external) (ELTI) affiliated with the Forest School has fully developed blended courses, in which Yale faculty and staff are building and teaching curriculum for online classes on tropical forest management and conservation, with an optional field component. ELTI has successfully completed its first year of its Tropical Forest Landscapes Certificate (link is external), a yearlong program with five courses: fundamentals, people, strategies, funding, and field, while concurrently developing an individual capstone project with mentoring from YSE and Forest School faculty. Through this program, participants have learned to design, implement, and monitor conservation and restoration initiatives in their home countries. For more restoration events offered by ELTI, click here (link is external).
The Overstory
Tri-Annual publication of Forest-Centric news produced by the Forest School at the Yale School of the Environment
July 1, 2020
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Karam Sheban, Research Manager, MF ‘20
Shortly before COVID-19 began spreading across the globe, Americans received what we hoped would be the worst news of 2020:... read more
Many of us started this year with shining eyes, welcoming in a new decade of restoration and celebration, but have been met by immense challenges throughout 2020.... read more
Sara Santiago
Each December, Yale Temperate Forestry (YTF; Yale’s student chapter of the Society of American Foresters) holds a retreat at Yale-Myers Forest (YMF)... read more
See below for a list of YSE forestry-related faculty publications with their students and alumni (bolded) for May-August 2020.
Bloomfield, G., Meli, P.,... read more
The summer of 2020 has been unlike any other. As scientists might refer to forests facing multiple stressors from climatic events, society too has been challenged... read more