{"id":9617,"date":"2021-03-23T12:31:34","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T12:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/?p=9617"},"modified":"2021-03-23T12:31:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T12:31:34","slug":"mary-barkham-appointed-trustee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/mary-barkham-appointed-trustee\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Barkham Appointed Trustee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We are delighted to welcome Dr Mary Barkham as a trustee of the Sylva Foundation. Mary was appointed as a trustee at a board meeting held on 19th March 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9618\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9618\" class=\"wp-image-9618 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Mary-Barkham-Sylva-trustee-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mary Barkham Sylva trustee\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Mary-Barkham-Sylva-trustee-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Mary-Barkham-Sylva-trustee-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Mary-Barkham-Sylva-trustee-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Mary-Barkham-Sylva-trustee-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Mary-Barkham-Sylva-trustee-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Mary-Barkham-Sylva-trustee.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9618\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr Mary Barkham Sylva trustee<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mary has had a career spanning both the public and private sector. She has a degree in horticultural science and a PhD in plant pathology. Following a period of research in universities, she worked in fungicide research for Dow Chemical followed by 14 years with the Research Councils coordinating environmental research in the UK through the Environmental Research Funders\u2019 Forum and the Living With Environmental Change Partnership.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014 she became a Forestry Commissioner for England and Scotland, has sat on the expert Committee on Forest Science and the Forest Research Board. Now retired, Mary continues to Chair the Partnership Board for Observatree (an award-winning citizen science project on tree health), is a Trustee for the William Robinson Gravetye Charity and was until recently a Trustee for the Earth Trust.<\/p>\n<p>Mary lives in Wales where she is doing an eco-renovation of a farmhouse and enjoying walking and gardening.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sylva.org.uk\/people#trustees\">Read more about Sylva Foundation&#8217;s board of trustees<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to welcome Dr Mary Barkham as a trustee of the Sylva Foundation. Mary was appointed as a trustee at a board meeting held on 19th March 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":9618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[377],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Mary-Barkham-Sylva-trustee.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9617"}],"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=9617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}