Forest ecologist to visit UW-Green Bay Friday

Charles Canham, a forest ecologist with the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, N.Y., will visit the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity this Friday (April 30). From 11:35 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Canham will lead an Ecolunch Seminar in MAC 212, titled “Neighborhood Dynamics of Forest Ecosystems: Invasion of Northeastern Forests by Tree of Heaven and Norway Maple.” The presentation is free and open to the public. On Saturday, Canham will join student researchers and faculty on a field trip to UW-Green Bay’s Wabikon Forest Dynamics Plot in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest near Crandon. His tour is sponsored by the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity and the Barbara Hauxhurst Cofrin Professorship in Natural Sciences held by Prof. Robert Howe.