The Disappearing Mother Tree

We had an AMAZING and potent evening with TED Speaker and UBC Professor Dr. Suzanne Simard, who has earned a reputation for pioneering research on tree connectivity and communication. Her research brilliantly illuminates that forests are social, cooperative creatures with communal lives not that different from our own.

Dr. Simmard is a Professor of Forest Ecology at the University of British Columbia, where she currently leads The Mother Tree Project and co-directs the Belowground Ecosystem Group. Her work has been published widely, with over 170 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Nature, Ecology, and Global Biology, and she has co-authored the book Climate Change and Variability. Her research has been communicated broadly through three TED Talks, TED Experiences, as well as articles and interviews in The New Yorker, National Geographic, The Globe and Mail, NPR, CNN, CBC, and many more.

If you weren’t able to join our small group this time, be sure to watch for her next return to Victoria – you’ll be grateful to hear her brilliance up close and personal. Meanwhile, you can purchase her recently released book, Finding the Mother Tree, here.

suzannesimard.com
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