10 CityTREES
In This Issue: Contributors
Sophia Rodbell is an ISA Certified
Arborist with Davey Resource
Group, Inc. She specializ-
es in urban forestry consult-
ing projects in the Tri-State
Area (New York, New Jer-
sey, and Connecticut), with
a strong comprehension of Tree
Risk Assessment. Sophia is a graduate
of the 2020 Municipal Forestry Institute and a New
York State Urban Forestry Council Board Member.
Dr. Duncan Slater is Senior Lec-
turer in Arboriculture at Myer-
scough College in Lancashire,
England. Duncan is the tutor for
the MSc in Arboriculture and
Urban Forestry online course,
run at Myerscough College and
validated by the University of Cen-
tral Lancashire. Duncan currently holds
five university degrees, including a PhD in Plant Sci-
ences from the University of Manchester. He is cur-
rently working on an MSc in Environmental Manage-
ment in the Ecology Department of Ulster University.
Interested in writing for City
Trees? Please send your
one-paragraph story pitch
to Editor Michelle Sutton.
Georgia Silvera Seamans is the
co-founding director of Wash-
ington Square Park Eco Proj-
ects in New York City. She is
an urban forester, independent
researcher, and writer. Geor-
gia has bylines with UrbanOmni-
bus.net, Audubon.org, and Audu-
bon Magazine, and her research has
been published in Urban Forestry & Urban Green-
ing and Journal of Arboriculture. Georgia blogs about
urban nature at localecologist.org. She holds degrees
from Wesleyan University, the Yale School of For-
estry & Environmental Studies, and UC Berkeley.
Jean Zimmerman is a Commer-
cial and Consulting Arbor-
ist for SavATree and a grad-
uate of the 2020 Munici-
pal Forestry Institute. She is
also a published author (jean-
zimmerman.com), a New York-
based writer who has made
the history of Manhattan a cen-
tral focus of both her fiction and nonfiction.
Correction
In the Ryan Russell story "In Search of the Endan-
gered Maple-Leaf Oak," in the July/August 2020
issue of City Trees, we inadvertently changed
Ryan's description of stem diameter from "12 inch-
es" to "12 feet." We apologize to Ryan, who got
ribbed by his colleagues for that incredibly stocky
tree measurement until the error was caught.
