Yale Forest Forum

Unlocking Forest Sector Innovation: The Practice and Potential Pathways to Scaling Up

This fall 2026 Yale Forest Forum speaker series will explore the opportunities, challenges, and pathways that exist and are emerging in forestry innovation. This series will highlight speakers across a wide variety of forest research institutions, practitioner settings, and geographies. The series is developed and supported by members of the Latin American Network for Forestry Education (RELAFOR) and the International Union of Forest Research Organizations’ (IUFRO) Scaling Up Science-based Forest Sector Innovation Task Force.

This fall 2026 speaker series is hosted by The Forest School at the Yale School of the Environment, College of Forestry, Oregon State University, the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), the Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, México, and the Universidad Nacional de la Plata, Argentina.

Innovations in Forest and Landscape Restoration

October 29, 2026 | 9am PT/12pm ET

Speaker: Adam Wei, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of British Columbia

Adam Wei is a Professor of forest hydrology and watershed management in the Department of Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. He also serves as Coordinator of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) Task Force on Forests and Water Interactions in a Changing Environment and is an Associate Editor of Ecohydrology. Wei's research focuses on forest disturbance and hydrological responses, watershed ecosystem analysis, and the impacts of land use and climate change on water resources. He has authored approximately 200 peer-reviewed scientific publications, including papers in Science and Nature Communications, and leads research on the cumulative effects of forest disturbance, land use and climate change on water quantity and quality.