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Suzanne W. Simard | |
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 Simard in 2018 | |
| Alma mater | Oregon State University |
| Awards | Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award (2021)[1] George Lawson Medal (2022)[2] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Forest ecology, mycorrhizal networks |
| Institutions | University of British Columbia |
| Thesis | Interspecific Carbon Transfer in Ectomycorrhizal Tree Species Mixtures (1995) |
| Doctoral advisor | David A. Perry |
Suzanne Simard (born 1960)[3] is a Canadian scientist and Professor in the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences at the University of British Columbia.[4] After growing up in the Monashee Mountains, British Columbia,[3][5][6] she received her PhD in Forest Sciences at Oregon State University.[4] Prior to teaching at the University of British Columbia, Simard worked as a research scientist at the British Columbia Ministry of Forests.[4]
Simard is best known for the research she conducted on the underground networks of forests characterized by fungi and roots.[4] She studies how these fungi and roots facilitate communication and interaction between trees and plants of an ecosystem.[4] Within the communication between trees and plants is the exchange of carbon, water, nutrients and defense signals between trees.[4] Simard is also a leader of TerreWEB, an initiative set to train graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in global change science and its communication.[7][4]
She used rare carbon isotopes as tracers in both field and greenhouse experiments to measure the flow and sharing of carbon between individual trees and species, and discovered, for instance, that birch and Douglas fir share carbon. Birch trees receive extra carbon from Douglas firs when the birch trees lose their leaves, and birch trees supply carbon to Douglas fir trees that are in the shade.
- ^ "2021 Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Awards Announced". April 4, 2022.
- ^ "Past Recipients of the Lawson Medal". Canadian Botanical Association/L'Association Botanique du Canada.
- ^ a b Cori Vanchierim, 'An ecologist’s new book gets at the root of trees’ social lives,' Science News 28 June 2021
- ^ a b c d e f g "Biography of Suzanne Simard for Appearances, Speaking Engagements". www.allamericanspeakers.com. Archived from the original on August 18, 2021. Retrieved February 18, 2021.
- ^ "The Wolf Tree and the World Wide Web". WIRED magazine. Retrieved December 28, 2022.
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