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2nd Los Angeles Urban Soil Symposium - Soil Connects Us All

“Healthy Soils for Healthy Communities Initiative” Phase Two: Los Angeles Urban Soil Collaborative—Soil Connects Us All Yujuan Chen, Ph.D. | Principal Scientist, TreePeople Richard Pouyat, Ph.D. | Scientist Emeritus, U.S. Forest Service Dr. Yujuan Chen is the Principal Scientist in the Department of Policy and Research at TreePeople. She is also a part-time lecturer in the School of Architecture at University of Southern California. Dr. Chen has a long-standing interest in urban forestry and urban soils. Currently, she is leading the “Healthy Soils for Healthy Communities Initiative” to study the potential of healthy soils in building climate resilience and healthy communities in Los Angeles. She holds a B.S. degree in horticulture from Beijing Forestry University, an M.S. degree in urban forestry from Chinese Academy of Forestry, and a Ph.D. in urban forestry from Virginia Tech. Richard Pouyat received his Ph.D in ecology from Rutgers University in 1992 and an M.S. in forest soils and B.S. in forest biology at the College of Environmental Science and Forestry in 1983 and 1980, respectively. Dr. Pouyat is retired from the USDA Forest Service where he was the National Program Lead for Air and Soil Quality Research for Research & Development at the Washington DC headquarters and is now Scientist Emeritus with the Northern Research Station and works with the Office of Sustainability and Climate on a part-time basis. He served at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) during the Obama Administration and as President of the Ecological Society of America (ESA). Dr. Pouyat is an original co-principal investigator of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study; a Long Term Ecological Research site funded by the National Science Foundation. TreePeople is Los Angeles’ largest environmental movement whose mission is to inspire, engage and support people to take personal responsibility for the urban environment, making it safe, healthy, fun and sustainable and to share our process as a model for the world. People need trees and trees need people. #trees #nature #tree #eco #ecology #earth #environment #forest #environmental #sustainable #sustainability #ecology #roots #branches