What a cool job. Can you do an AMA?
- Who values forests enough to pay for help with them?
- Do you have a primary client? Do you have a mix of clients that changes?
- Was it hard to get the position, given your background (that I’ve seen) is in chemistry and lab science (EDIT: Ph.D. neuroscience)?
- What’s a good state for a forest, one that you steer it toward? Or maybe, since it’s complicated, what are the major attributes of a healthy forest that you can have an effect on?
- I’ve seen it said that it takes some small multiple of hundreds of years to make an inch of topsoil. Obviously it depends (longer in Antarctica, less so in Amazonia), but is that generally true, the right order of magnitude? (Thinking about my prolific fifteen-year-old compost heap, maybe not so long. Then again, rich as it is, it’s not yet topsoil.)
- What about forests (anything) have you learned since you started this?