Tuesday Group -- The Future of the Boreal Forest with Lee Frelich

The Tuesday Group program on June 25, 2024 featured Lee Frelich, the Director of the Center for Forest Ecology at the University of Minnesota.
The boreal forest is the largest terrestrial biome on the planet, and is likely to change a lot with a warming climate, especially in places like Ely that are near the southern boundary of the boreal forest. We will talk about changes that are already occurring and potential changes in the boreal forest due to warming climate, and the cascading impacts caused by changing disturbance regimes and invasive species.
Lee E. Frelich received a Ph.D. in Forest Ecology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1986. Frelich has authored 210 publications with 332 coauthors from 26 countries, including major works for Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press. He is listed among the top 1% of all scientists in the world in the Ecology and Environment category by the Web of Science. His research has been featured in the news media 590 times, including such venues as The New York Times, Newsweek and Washington Post. Current research interests include large-scale fire and wind, earthworm invasion, and climate change in temperate and boreal forests.