training municipal staff to collect data using both tra-
ditional and remote sensing methods. These cities
include Mobile, Huntsville, Birmingham, Florence,
and Phenix City in Alabama, and Atlanta, Georgia.
I also work with ISA Certified Arborists, Master
Gardeners, homeowners, and young people. I find
teaching the public and raising awareness about
urban tree care and maintenance exciting. My team
at the Alabama Cooperative Extension System at
Auburn University organizes workshops for home-
owners on different topics related to maintenance
of landscape trees: tree selection, tree planting,
mulching, watering, tree pruning, trees and con-
struction, etc. We develop educational programs for
arborists, and we prepare them for ISA certification.
We also organize 4-H and related youth programs,
which is always fun because students attending our
workshops are interested in nature and motivated
to learn more about trees. Some of them will be the
new generation of urban forestry professionals.
What about teaching and advising?
GA: At the College of Forestry, Wildlife and
Environment at Auburn University we offer a minor
in Urban Forestry. I teach the Urban Forestry course
(FORY 5650) and starting next year I am going to
co-teach the Arboriculture course (HORT 3220).
I have one graduate student who is pursuing
his master's in urban forestry, and he studies
urban forest carbon stocks using TLS technology.
I am also advising a second master's student
who is studying the effect of wood density in
tree biomass estimation based on TLS data.
Anything else you want to share?
GA: City Forests is a new webinar series that I
launched that takes place on the last Thursday of each
month at 10:00-11:00 a.m. CST. Speakers cover dif-
ferent aspects of urban forest ecology, management,
and arboriculture. Certified arborists can claim ISA
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for attending.
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Arseniou using the FARO Focus terrestrial laser scanner to scan
loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) trees during a field campaign at the
Mary Olive Thomas Demonstration Forest at Auburn University.
