Suzanne Simard
Suzanne Simard is a professor in the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences and teaches at the University of British Columbia. She received her PhD in Forest Sciences at Oregon State University. Before beginning to teach at the University of British Columbia, Simard worked as a research scientist at the British Columbia Ministry of Forests. Simard is best known for the research she has conducted on the underground networks of forests characterized by fungi and roots. She studies how these fungi and roots facilitate communication and interaction between trees and plants of an ecosystem. Within the communication between trees and plants is the exchange of carbon, water, nutrients and defence signals between trees. 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.
