Amy Adams to portray UBC forest researcher in movie based on memoir

Hollywood actor Amy Adams is set to play a UBC ecology professor in an upcoming feature film based on the researcher’s new memoir. 

Suzanne Simard, a professor of forest ecology at the University of British Columbia, has dedicated her life work to her discovery that trees are indeed whispering to each other — communicating, not through the wind, but through the soil. 

Simard’s new memoir Finding the Mother Tree, describing her life and research, has now been picked up by Adams