TREE Fund Webinars

TREE Fund webinars bring you the latest in tree research, directly from the scientists themselves.

TREE Fund’s one-hour webinars are free and offer 1.0 CEU (only for live broadcast) from the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA), the Society of American Foresters (SAF), the National Association of Landscape Professionals (NALP) and sometimes the Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System (LACES). See webinar descriptions for specifics. Space is limited and pre-registration is highly recommended; in doing so, you’ll receive a reminder email the day before the broadcast.

Many thanks to our webinar host Alabama Cooperative Extension System.

 

Future Webinars

Please join us for TREE Fund’s 2024 webinar series. Ongoing Webinars will be updated on this site.

Advances in our understanding of the dynamic forces applied to a tree during removal operations: results and techniques to mitigate risk of failure

Tuesday, March 19, 2024, Noon (CST)

Matt Follett will be presenting his findings and research. CEUs will be available for this free webinar.

Here we outline results from recent experiments focused on exploring concepts in both physics and tree biomechanics and how we can incorporate these to improve safety for those working in the arboriculture setting.  These studies specifically examined the distribution of force through the tree during dismantling options, and questions if biomechanical models developed on wind and gravitational inputs into tree crown architecture would map to removal operations.  Our results have direct implications for working arborists, and help to develop mitigation measures to reduce loading (stress/strain) in the stem

Registration is open via this link

Tree Caused Outages – What we know and what we have learned.

Tuesday, November 5, 2024, Noon (CST)

Dr. Greg Dahl, Associate Professor of Arboriculture at West Virginia University, and Cindy Musick, PhD Candidate at West Virginia University will be presenting their findings and research. CEUs will be available for this free webinar.

Over the past several years, Dr. Greg Dahle and PhD student Cindy Devlin Musick have worked with data acquired in Virginia to learn more about the leading cause of power outages – trees. They will share what they have learned by investigating outages and how that information has led to data-based maintenance decisions

Registration will be open approximately two weeks prior

TREE Fund 2024 webinars are co-sponsored by the Alabama Cooperative Extension System 

Visit our  Webinar Archive page to catch up on any of our previous webinars!