City Trees

Currently I have a PhD student, Amy Blood, using remote- sensing techniques to develop an urban forest typology that will facilitate policy development for stormwater management. Laura Grant is an MSc student who is exploring tree loss post-development. Other projects are underway looking at the performance of blended and engineered soils (replacement soils) in high-den- sity urban areas and how they change over time. The Bachelor of Urban Forestry (BUF) program is equally bal- anced between biophysical factors (plant science, forestry, ecology, etc.); planning and design (students take courses in landscape architecture, urban planning, and specially designed urban forestry courses such as Introduction to Urban Forest Design); and the social sciences (including an exciting new course taught by new UBC Assistant Professor Lorien Nesbitt, Environmental Justice and Urban Green Equity). Students also have a lot of opportunities for experiential learning, including through our Forestry Co-op Program; we are working on initiatives to develop more undergrad- uate research opportunities and more Co-op experiences. The professional community here in BC has been very welcoming and I really look forward to continuing to build these relationships here and internationally. Currently we have about 220 students enrolled in the undergraduate/BUF program. The students here at UBC Susan D. Day is a Professor of Urban Forestry in the Department of Forest Resources Management and the Program Director for the urban forestry degree at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Dr. Day's research focuses on man- aging urban soils to enhance tree growth and longevity in the context of environmental challenges such as stormwater mitigation and land development impacts on soil-medi- ated ecosystem services. She helped shape the Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES®) crediting system for soils and has published more than 100 articles and book chapters on urban forests and urban soils. She is the 2017 recipient of the L.C. Chadwick Award for Arboricultural Research. Dr. Day holds a B.A. from Yale University, a M.S. from Cornell University, and a Ph.D. from Virginia Tech. Cecil Konijnendijk is par- ticularly interested in green space governance (including community involvement), people-nature relation- ships and cultural ecosystem services, and urban forestry and urban greening. Dr. Konijnendijk's work over the last 25 years has brought him across the globe. Before coming to UBC, he worked at Wageningen University (Netherlands), the European Forest Institute (Finland), the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Sweden), and the University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China). Among other courses, Dr. Konijnendijk teaches Greening the City and Urban Forestry Administration, Policy, and Law. From 2002 until the end of 2019, he was the editor-in-chief of the journal Urban Forestry & Urban Greening and Series Editor of Springer's Future City series. At UBC he heads the UFORIA (Urban Forestry Research in Action) Lab and the new Master of Urban Forestry Leadership program. Vancouver, British Columbia is the 8th largest city in Canada, with a population of approximately 650,000 people. (photo from forestry.ubc.canada) Susan Day: 24 CityTREES

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