{"id":7282,"date":"2015-11-11T15:11:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T15:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/?p=7282"},"modified":"2015-11-11T15:11:25","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T15:11:25","slug":"volunteer-intern-to-work-on-forest-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/volunteer-intern-to-work-on-forest-resilience\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer intern to work on forest resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7283\" style=\"width: 302px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zia-Mehrabi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7283\" class=\"wp-image-7283 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Zia-Mehrabi-292x300.jpg\" alt=\"Zia Mehrabi\" width=\"292\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7283\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Zia Mehrabi, Sylva intern<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We are pleased to welcome a new addition to the Sylva team, Dr Zia Mehrabi.<\/p>\n<p>Zia is an ecologist from the University of Oxford working on ways to optimise ecosystem design for both productivity and environmental sustainability. He is working with Sylva as a volunteer intern, funded by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodtp.ox.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBSRC Doctoral Training Partnership internship programme<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During his internship at Sylva, he will be helping to develop a strategy for monitoring the health of UK woodlands using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myForest.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">myForest service<\/a>. This is an innovative tool that currently helps owners to map and manage their woodlands. Zia will be exploring how myForest could also provide a platform for monitoring how management activity can maintain biodiversity and support resilient woodlands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volunteer intern Dr Zia Mehrabi is working with Sylva to help develop a strategy for monitoring the health of UK woodlands using the myForest service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[227,323,390],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Zia-Mehrabi.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}