| 2017 Yosemite Forum Schedule | ||||
| February 14 | Dr. Anne Kelly | University of California, Merced; Sierra Nevada Research Institute | How heat and drought control the growth and death of Sierra forests | |
| March 14 | Dr. James Lutz | Utah State University | Fire, drought, and big trees | |
| April 11 | Kelsey Lahr | University of Utah | Climate change communication and the articulation of local and scientific knowledge in Yosemite National Park | |
| May 9 | Dr. Heather Tallis | The Nature Conservancy | Nature as normal: Expanding how we think about nature and what it means for our health, education, and beyond | |
| June 13 | Melissa Thaw | University of California, Merced | Three curious secrets isotopes whisper about the Sierra Nevada: Tracking mountain water from snowflakes to tree leaves | |
| July 11 | Michael Uhler | East Bay Regional Park Garden | High elevation plants of the Sierra Nevada | |
| August 8 | Dr. Douglas Dodd | California State University, Bakersfield | The Civilian Conservation Corps and the shaping of Yosemite National Park, 1933-1942 | |
| September 12 | Dr. Thomas Painter | NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Airborne Snow Observatory | |
| October 10 | Dr. Craig Jones | University of Colorado, Boulder | The mountains that remade America: Science, society, and the Sierra Nevada | |
| November 14 | Dean Tonenna | Bureau of Land Management | Cultural revitalization in the Mono Lake - Yosemite region: An ethnobotanic perspective | |
| December 12 | TBA | TBA | TBA | |
The Yosemite Forum is a partnership among:
- Yosemite National Park
- Yosemite Conservancy
- USGS, Western Ecological Research Center Yosemite Field Station
- University of California, Sierra Nevada Research Institute
- USFS, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Sierra Nevada Research Center
Learn more about the park's research and studies—also detailed in the Yosemite Science online resources management publication published on an occasional basis. Find Yosemite content throughout the Nature & Science and History & Culture web pages.