Discovering the Wisdom Data of the Forest Special Guest: Forest Ecologist Suzanne Simard

In line with TARTLEs mission to promote climate stability, one of its Big 7, James and Alex welcomed Suzanne Simard to the podcast. Suzanne, who is a Professor of Forest Ecology at the University of British Columbia and the author of Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering The Wisdom of the Forest, explores the significance of emphasizing datadriven action on climate change particularly on the oldgrowth forests of British Columbia. She offers an eyeopening perspective on the deterioration of these oldgrowth forests and the colossal amount of environmental data with untapped potential. Throughout their discussion, she also drew plenty of thoughtful parallels between big data and the fight against deforestation. Old Growth Forests: Massive Data Networks The complex data networks making up a bulk of the tech systems we are heavily dependent on today are eerily similar to the interactions of trees in old growth forests. Suzanne realized that trees are in constant conversation underground. This