Join us for #MembersHour on 10 October with Dr Gabriel Hemery FICFor CEnv and Dr Alice Broome as they introduce the concept of stewardship science and Forest Lab.
Forest Lab is an application hosted within the Sylva Foundation’s myForest platform that provides technology and tools to help land managers collect and share data to inform environmental science (acting as ‘stewardship scientists’), and in return improve knowledge exchange between scientists and land managers.
Sylva Foundation and Forest Research are working in partnership to deliver Forest Lab with projects exploring wildfire, tree growth, resilience, and IPS, with more in development. myForest users are responsible for about 10% of private woodland area across the UK, therefore collectively are able to represent a wide range of woodland types, and to explore many different issues, at thousands of different locations across the country. The team hope that as a result this will create a unique and powerful tool to capture important information and data about environmental change, and also to help steer science to support forestry practice.
Speakers
Dr Gabriel Hemery FICFor CEnv – Chief Executive, Sylva Foundation
Gabriel co-founded Sylva Foundation with the late Sir Martin Wood in 2009, and has since led the charity as its Chief Executive. In addition to his duties as CEO, Gabriel leads on the charity’s scientific work, and supports colleagues working on the charity’s many innovative forestry projects. Gabriel’s background is in forestry science with a particular interest in hardwoods, gaining a PhD in walnut genetics and silviculture. He has authored more than 100 peer-review articles and is the author of several tree and forestry books including the award-winning The New Sylva and the best-selling The Tree Almanac.
Dr Alice Broome – Senior Scientist, Forest Research
Alice is a Senior Scientist at Forest Research and leads on protected species. She is responsible for designing and delivering practical advice for practitioners across Great Britain working in proximity to protected species. Alice is the author of peer reviewed publications on protected species and woodland ecology. She leads and manages a broad range of research projects on behalf of Forest Research, drawing on a long experience of applied forest ecology.
