2023 Conference Agenda
All times are listed in Eastern Standard Time (UTC -05:00)
Registration/Check-in
Format: In-person only
Location: Kroon Hall, 3rd floor
Snacks & coffee provided
Panel I - Feedback System in the Tropics
Format: Hybrid
Location: Watson Center, Room A53
Professor of Environmental Sciences
University of Virginia;
Chief Scientist, Calyx Global
Professor of Ecosystem Science,
University of Oxford;
Senior Research Fellow, Oriel College
Breakout Session No.1
Format: In-person only
Location: Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Room 160
Practicing what one is preaching: An ELTI (Environmental Leadership and Training Initiative) Alumnus’ Strategy of Proliferating Rainforestation (Native Tree Forest Restoration) in Negros Island, Philippines
Guiraldo C. Fernandez Jr. (Visayas State University)
Building Partnerships for Forest Restoration Panel
Format: Hybrid
Location: Sage Hall, Bowers Auditorium
The Forests School & Yale ISTF Conversation Tables + Reception
Format: In-person only
Location: Kroon Hall, 3rd floor
Registration/Check-in
Format: In-person only
Location: Kroon Hall, 3rd floor
Breakfast & coffee provided
Opening Plenary: Introductory Remarks and Keynote Addresses
Format: Hybrid
Location: Kroon Hall, Burke Auditorium
Director of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) Secretariat
Influential Women leadership in Forestry: Lessons learned in view of promoting Sustainable Forest Management through the UNFF
Global Forests Lead Scientist at World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
The fate of the tropical forests in an interconnected world
Coffee Break
Format: In-person only
Location: Kroon Hall, 3rd floor
Innovation Prize Presentations
Format: Hybrid
Location: Kroon Hall, 3rd floor
ProEco Azuero
Sandra Vásquez de Zambrano, Executive Director
Rainforest Biodiversity of Phalee
Rinchui Raman, Representative
Lunch
Format: In-person only
Location: Kroon Hall, 3rd floor
Panel II - Forest Dependent Livelihoods: Climate Change Impacts and Adaptations
Format: Hybrid
Location: Kroon Hall, Burke Auditorium
Associate Professor of Tropical Landscapes and Livelihoods,
The University of British Columbia
Gund Fellow & Professor, University of Vermont
Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources
Keynote Breakout Sessions
Format: In-person only
Location: Kroon Hall, Room 321
Keynote discussion group with Juliette Biao
Thokozile Changufu MF ‘22, moderator
Location: Kroon G01
Keynote discussion group with Pablo Pacheco
Ryan Smith MF ‘22, moderator
Breakout Session No.2
Format: In-person only
Location: Kroon Hall, Room 321
A closed-loop conservation strategy to advance the protection of critically at-risk biomes in the Amazon Rainforest
Jeff C. Carlson and Joshua Ortiz-Guzman
(RioRaiz)
Location: Kroon Hall, Room 319
An assessment of life within the African tropics: The case of AFR100
Mamadou Diakhite and Teko Nhlapo
(African Union Development Agency – NEPAD)
Location: Kroon Hall, Room G01
Cities4Forests Partner Forest Workshop
Scott Francisco and Sarah Jane Wilson
(Pilot Projects and Conservation International)
TGIF (Thank Goodness I’m a Forester): The Forestry Club * Yale ISTF
Format: In-person only
Location: Kroon Hall, 3rd floor
Food & drinks provided
Registration
Format: In-person only
Location: Kroon Hall, 3rd Floor
Breakfast & coffee provided
Panel III - Sustainable Development and Tropical Forests
Format: Hybrid
Location: Kroon Hall, Burke Auditorium
Breakout Session No. 3
Format: In-person only
Location: Kroon Hall, Room G01
Community-based perspectives on the interaction between expanding agricultural frontiers and the conservation of tropical forests
Sheila Ward, Nicholas Brokaw, and Gamma Galudra (ISTF Global and RECOFTC)
Location: Kroon Hall, Room 319
Fantastic restoration monitoring tools and where to find them
Melaina Dyck and Darby Levin (Climate Focus)
Location: Kroon Hall, Room 321
Harnessing the power of nature: Three (Conservation International) guides to restoring forests at scale
Sarah Jane Wilson (University of Michigan)
Lunch
Format: In-person only
Location: Kroon Hall, 3rd floor
Closing Plenary & Announcing Innovation Prize Award
Format: Hybrid
Location: Kroon Hall, Burke Auditorium
Senior Associate Dean of The Forest School;
Morris K. Jesup Professor of Silviculture and Forest Ecology;
Director of Yale Forests
ISTF 2023 Conference made possible by our sponsors
Cullman Institute
The Forest School
YSE Learning Communities
People, Equity, and the Environment
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