University of British Columbia Professor of Forest Ecology Suzanne Simard, author of the highly acclaimed book Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Vintage/Penguin Random House), will give a talk on September 27 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. A pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence, Simard is known for her work on how trees interact and communicate using below-ground fungal networks, which has led to the recognition that forests have hub trees, or Mother Trees. These Mother Trees are large, highly connected trees that play an important role in the flow of information and resources in a forest. Her current research investigates how these complex relationships contribute to forest resiliency, adaptability, and recovery and has far-reaching implications for how to manage and heal forests from human impacts, including climate change. Simard’s TED Talk, “How trees talk to one another,” has more than 5 million views. The event is presented by the Lowell Humanities Series and co-sponsored by the Environmental Studies Program, Earth and Environmental Sciences Department, Biology Department, and the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society.