Steve Cothrel has been the
Superintendent of Parks &
Forestry in Upper Arlington,
Ohio since 1989. He
is a Certified Arborist and
Municipal Specialist, a Past
President of SMA, and Past
Chair of the Editorial Review
Committee for City Trees.
Duncan Slater is a Senior Lecturer
in Arboriculture at Myerscough
College in Lancashire,
England. He is the tutor for
the MSc in Arboriculture and
Urban Forestry online course,
run at Myerscough College and
validated by the University of
Central Lancashire. Duncan currently holds
five separate university degrees, including
a PhD in Plant Sciences from the University
of Manchester and a recently completed
Master's degree in Education.
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Sitara Gare is an Arboriculture
Coordinator for Brisbane City
Council, Australia's largest
municipal council. Brisbane is
a subtropical city that has an
annual storm season that starts
in October and ends in March.
Sitara's arboriculture passions lie
in educating the public about all the benefits
of trees and the retention of dead trees for
habitat for wildlife, including lizards and
insects.
Theresa Crimmins is the Assistant
Director of the USA National
Phenology Network's National
Coordinating Office. She has
written multiple articles for
City Trees about techniques
for using phenology to better
time treatments for urban forest
insect pests.
Owen Croy is retired from man-
aging parks for the City of
Surrey, British Columbia. He
has served SMA on the Board,
MFI Teaching Team, Editorial
Review Committee, and in
many other capacities. Owen
is a municipal parks and forestry
consultant and an urban forestry instructor in
the Faculty of Forestry at UBC.
