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New UCD Earth Institute Strategic Priority project: Trees outside the Forest by Sophia Meeres

UCD Earth Institute coffee morning research talk on a new Institute Strategic Priority project, Trees outside the Forest by Sophia Meeres, UCD Landscape Architecture, 31 October 2024. This week we're joined by Sophia Meeres from UCD Landscape Architecture to talk about the second of our two new Strategic Priority projects. Trees are the largest-growing longest-living things on our planet. They make us happy. They’re beautiful. They’re essential to our quality of life. They’re multi-tasking climate champions. They cool and clean the air, store carbon, create healthy habitats and host wildlife. Scientists claim that they’re social and sensate, that they communicate with each other - there’s much we don’t know about them. The Trees outside the Forest project brings together a transdisciplinary community in debate and thinking about the tree resource, roles, values and futures of Ireland’s trees and questions of how we steward them. The project seeks to identify gaps in knowledge, and in policy, it seeks to support development of an emerging area of research, and to raise awareness of the need for better planning of trees, policy for trees and research into trees in urban situations (the urban forest) and rural ones (trees, hedgerows and informal woodlands). Sophia is coordinating the project with Brian Tobin (School of Agriculture and Food Science), Gerald Mills, Tine Ningal (both School of Geography) and Ciaran Bennett (UCD Estates). See www.ucd.ie/earth for more information about the UCD Earth Institute and our programme of events.