Future Forests Fellowship Awards World's Largest Forestry Scholarship

Sara Barron, a Ph D. student at the University of British Colombia, was awarded up to $240,000-$60,000 annually for up to four years-to study how urban planners can design or retrofit suburbs to create suburban forests that could reduce carbon footprints.

"If people live in denser neighborhoods, it has a whole host of benefits. For example, it leaves more land for natural environments which can mitigate the effects of climate change," says Barron, who has decided to focus her research on suburbs because of their large footprint.

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