Lydia Cole attended EuroSEAS Annual Conference

Lydia Cole attended the EuroSEAS (European Association for South East Asian Studies) annual conference in Gothenburg, Sweden, in August, 2010.  She presented a paper entitled "Permeating the Peat: An Investigation into the Resilience of Tropical Peat-swamp Forest", as part of the panel "New Insights into Human-Environment Histories in SEAsia".

Lydia will also be attending the International Society of Tropical Foresters Yale Student Chapter Annual Conference at Yale, entitled Communities, Commodities and Carbon: Innovations in Tropical Forest Management.  She will be presenting a poster entitled "Probing the Peat; an investigation into the resilience of tropical peat swamp forests in the face of agricultural expansion."