We're graduate students at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University. This page originated as a project that we decided to work on together for Tom Siccama's and Dan Vogt's Methods of Ecosystem Analysis FES 519b class in the spring of 1998. The class made weekly trips to New Haven Regional Water Authority land north of Lake Gaillard in North Branford, CT between January and April, 1998. In addition to these trips, students did individual projects, many of which are presented on pages like ours. Links to other projects are available here.

What do FES'ers do with their lives? Well, Fresco's about to take off to the "Forestry Capital of Canada," Meadow Lake Saskatchewan, for the summer to help develop a forest management plan with Mistik, Inc. Her research at FES has focused on conservation biology, and (ahem) more practical aspects of forest and other natural resource use. Before coming to FES, she spent a couple of years in Jamaica with the Peace Corps.

I (Sagor) like adventure too, but have chosen a summer job a bit closer to home. I'll be spending the summer as a member of the crew at the Yale-Myers Forest, a 7,800 acre school owned forest in northeastern Connecticut. My FES research has focused on the composition and dynamics of New England forests as well as broader issues related to forest and other natural resource use. I expect to continue to add to this site as other research progresses, so keep your eye out if you're into this stuff and like to watch a student bumble through it. The Yale-Myers Forest seems to have avoided major HWA-related damage so far, and I hope to spend some time this summer looking at the forest's vulnerability to HWA and at ways that the forest can be managed to minimize the loss of habitat diversity and other valuable assets. If this project doesn't come off, I'll likely look more broadly at the ways that Connecticut forests will change as a result of HWA activity.

Publications:
--Sagor, E.S., M. Ouellet, E. Barten, and D.M. Green. 1998. Geographic variation in age structure in the wood frog, Rana sylvatica. Journal of Herpetology. In press.

Nancy Fresco:	Eli Sagor (standing, with research assistant Wendy Barber):

Email us: nancy.fresco@yale.edu, eli.sagor@yale.edu

Site last updated May 1, 1998.