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    International Tree Failure Database Training Session

    Summary

    The International Tree Failure Database (ITFD) was developed by the US Forest Service to collect information on tree failures to aid in the prediction and prevention of future failures. The ITFD relies on contributions of tree failure data from arborists and other professionals. In order to contribute to the database, arborist must complete a training course on how to use the database. This session will provide that training and will qualify attendees to receive a password for the ITFD.

    Presenters

    Laurence R. Costello , Ph.D., Environmental Horticulture Advisor, University of California Cooperative Extension, San Francisco, California, United States

    Dr. Larry Costello is an Environmental Horticulture Advisor with the University of California Cooperative Extension.  Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, he has conducted an education and applied-research program in urban forestry and landscape horticulture since 1981.  He received a doctorate in Plant Physiology from the University of California (Berkeley, California) and a master's degree in Horticulture from the University of California, Davis.  Dr. Costello is a member of the Western Chapter of ISA and received the L.C. Chadwick Award for Arboricultural Research in 2002. Recent publications include Oaks in the Urban Landscape (2011), Abiotic Disorders of Landscape Plants: A Diagnostic Guide (2003), and Reducing Infrastructure Damage by Tree Roots: A Compendium of Strategies (2003). He is the owner of the Oracle Oak Nursery near San Francisco, and is the founder of the California Tree Failure Reporting Program.

     

    E. Thomas Smiley , Ph.D.,Plant Pathologist/Soil Scientist, Bartlett Tree Research Lab, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

    Dr. Tom Smiley is an arboricultural researcher at the Bartlett Tree Research Laboratory in Charlotte, North Carolina, and an adjunct professor of urban forestry at Clemson University. He received an M.S. in plant pathology from Colorado State University and his doctorate in urban forestry from Michigan State University.

     

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