I am Director of an ecological restoration team dedicated to improving global capacity to restore degraded ecosystems in harmony with local cultures. This includes: restoration planning at local, regional, and national scales; forest restoration implementation involving millions of plants; economic and sustainability models to empower communities to build reforestation platforms; community outreach and intern programs reaching thousands of students - the restoration is occurring in Puerto Rico, Panama, Malaysia, Indonesia, Nepal, and the USA. In addition, I design ecological research experiments that complement the restoration. Research focuses on several key themes: assisted migration, facilitation, carbon cycling, biodiversity, pollination, co-evolution, exotics, and climate change.