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. Registration for October 8 is available here.
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Predictors of street tree survival in Philadelphia: Tree traits, biophysical environment, and socioeconomic context
Tuesday, October 8, 2024, Noon (CST) Dr. Robert Fahey will be presenting his findings and research from his TREE Fund grant with the Hyland Johns Research Grant Program. CEUs will be available for this free webinar. We focus on how street tree survival in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (US) has been influenced by 1) tree traits and attributes, 2) the local biophysical environment, and 3) socioeconomic context. The work used a longitudinal monitoring approach with a 6-year time interval and 103 randomly-located, fixed-length permanent plots, containing a range of tree size classes, to assess street tree survival rates, predictors of survival, and the balance of tree losses and gains. We present findings on tree mortality and its drivers and discuss the implications of the work for management and monitoring in urban street tree systems. Registration is now open |
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Tree Caused Outages – What we know and what we have learned.
Tuesday, November 5, 2024, Noon (CST) Dr. Greg Dahle, Associate Professor of Arboriculture at West Virginia University, and Cindy Musick, PhD Candidate at West Virginia University will be presenting their findings and research through Utility Arborist Research Fund Grant Program. 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 three weeks prior |
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Biochar for Tree Growth and Water Quality: Exploring Potential in Urban and Disturbed Soils
Tuesday, December 17, 2024, Noon (CST) Dr. Rebecca Abney and Julia Campbell will be presenting their findings and research funded through Tree and Soil Research Fund Grant Program. CEUs will be available for this webinar. Biochar is a soil amendment that is broadly described to improve a number of soil deficiencies, however it is not universally recommended. We present results from a handful of studies investigating methods and rates of application of biochar in urban soils. We will discuss how our study trees responded to different biochar applications and how each of these combinations impacted water quality. We will also discuss best practices for using biochar and which soils would benefit the most. We will also discuss best management practices for using biochar to improve urban stormwater quality. Registration will be open approximately three 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!