Tes Siarnacki

Tes is a Ph.D. student in Environmental Conservation with a focus on urban forestry, working with Brian Kane. She’s also a research assistant with the Facilities & Campus Services Departments, creating management plans for the W. E. B. DuBois Homesite in Great Barrington, MA, and Prexy’s Ridge, the only old growth forest patch in Massachusetts on a university campus. She is passionate about maintaining native species in the landscape, and is thrilled to help steward the ancient ecological community on Prexy’s Ridge. Her Master’s project combined her teaching background (10 years in Boston Public Schools!) with municipal pruning practices, and now Tes is investigating the growth and ecosystem service provision of urban microforests (Miyawaki forests), which replicate high density natural communities within the developed domain.