Sara Kuebbing

This talk will provide a broad overview of the many ways humans can protect, expand, or manage forest for climate mitigation. The talk will provide a brief historical overview of recent renewed interest in forest climate mitigation, forest carbon cycling, and estimates of carbon stocks and removal rates in response to various forest protection and management options. The talk will use the United States forests as a case study to explore these ideas.

Speaker Biography

Dr. Sara Kuebbing is a Research Scientist and the Director of Research of the Yale Applied Science Synthesis Program at The Forest School at the Yale School of the Environment.

Sara is trained as an ecologist with expertise in forest ecology, conservation biology, and invasion biology. She conducts research on how humans can make informed decisions on how to best protect and conserve landscapes, ecosystems, and all the species that lives within them. She work with a variety of scientists, land managers, and policymakers to focus my research questions and share my results.

Prior to moving to Yale, Sara was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh where she ran an empirical research lab in plant ecology and invasion biology. Her research training includes postdoctoral positions with the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies and the Smith Conservation Fellows Program, a PhD from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee and a BS from the Department of Entomology & Wildlife Conservation at the University of Delaware.