Seeking insights on Canadian wildfires and the impact on U.S. air quality? @sunyesf's Dr. Andrew Vander Yacht is available to talk about fire behavior and the environmental impact.

Dr. Vander Yacht is available for interviews.

Dr. Vander Yacht coordinates the Applied Forest & Fire Ecology Lab (AFFEL) at SUNY ESF which seeks to address threats to forest resources by: 1) understanding the effects of disturbance on forest structure, composition, distribution, & function, 2) integrating this knowledge into the design of modern forest management strategies, tactics, & tools, & 3) testing efficacy through application. The AFFEL explores the hypothesis that disturbance is the key to forest resilience in the face of modern stressors. More specific interests within this broad theme include:

• Restoring disturbance-dependent components of forest biodiversity
• Effects of disturbance on the adaptive capacity of forests
• Fire and fuel ecology and management in the Eastern USA
• Microbial plant-soil(-fire) feedbacks & forest regeneration
• Oak (Quercus spp.) and pine (Pinus spp.) ecology and silviculture
• Mechanical, chemical, and fire control of American beech competition
• Ticks, tick-borne disease, and prescribed fire management
• Relationships between pyrodiversity and biodiversity
• Traditional ecological knowledge of forest disturbance