ARBORICULTURE SHORT COURSE, a 2-Day Tree School 

2 DAYS of in-depth experience!
DEVELOPED FOR novice arborists, perfect for arborists studying for the ISA Certification exam.
Send us your new employees and we will teach them the basics of arboriculture.
Also for urban foresters, consultants, landscape architects, landscape contractors,
horticulturists, nursery operators, HOA managers.

RESCHEDULED DATES:
Thursday-Friday  May 7-8, 2020
same location - same speakers - same agenda

UF-IFAS Gulf Coast Research & Education Center
14625 County Road 672  -  Wimauma, FL  33598

CEUs:
Certified Arborist: 12.25      BCMA 12.25 (2-M   6.5-P   3.75-S)
FNGLA: 8     LIAF: 8
now approved for LA CEUs: 12.25 (optional) (provider 0004488, course 0011839)

AGENDA

DAY 1

 8:00 to 8:30   Registration with Continental Breakfast

8:30 – 9:30   
   Basic Tree Functions - Tree Crown Structure & Architecture 
   Dr. Ed Gilman, UF Professor Emeritus

9:30 – 10:15   
   Tree Root System Management: from Seed to Maturity
   Dr. Ed Gilman, UF Professor Emeritus

10:15 – 10:30    Break

10:30 – 11:15   
   Tree Health Diagnostic Process
   Dr. A.D. Ali, Senior Scientist, Davey Tree Expert Company

11:15 – Noon   
   ID and Management of Common Tree Insect Pests
   Dr. A.D. Ali, Senior Scientist, Davey Tree Expert Company

Noon – 1:00    Lunch (provided)

1:00 – 2:15   
   Young Tree & Mature Tree Pruning (Indoor/Outdoor)
   Dr. Ed Gilman, UF Professor Emeritus

2:15 – 3:00   
   Selecting and Purchasing Trees
   Michael Marshall, Manager, Marshall Tree Farm

3:00 – 3:15    Break

3:15 – 4:00     
   How Trees Respond to Injury & Stress
   Dr. Ed Gilman, UF Professor Emeritus

4:00   Day 1 ends, sign for CEUs

DAY 2

8:00 to 8:30   Continental Breakfast
   
8:30 – 9:30   
   Managing Mature Trees in Urban Landscapes
   Norm Easey, Florida Chapter ISA

9:30 – 10:15   
   Arboriculture Standards: Cabling, Lightning, Pruning,
      Fertilization & More
      Dr. Tom Smiley, Bartlett Tree Expert Company

10:15 – 10:30    Break

10:30 – 11:15    
   Tree Fertilization
    Dr. Tom Smiley, Bartlett Tree Expert Company

11:15 – Noon
   Cabling, Bracing & Lightning Protection
   Dr. Tom Smiley, Bartlett Tree Expert Company

Noon – 1:00    Lunch (provided)

1:00 – 1:45   
   The Tree Disease Diagnosis Process
   Dr. Jason Smith, UF Professor, Gainesville

1:45 – 2:15   
   Common Southeast US Tree Diseases & How to ID Them
   Dr. Jason Smith, UF Professor, Gainesville

2:15 – 3:00   
   Tree Planting
   Dr. Andrew Koeser, UF Professor, GCREC

3:00 – 4:00   
   Evaluating and Managing Risk in Trees
   Dr. Andrew Koeser, UF Professor, GCREC

4:00   Day 2 ends, sign for CEUs

 

OUR EXPERTS

DR. A.D. ALI, Davey Tree Expert Company
Dr. A.D. Ali has over 25 years’ experience in the Green Industry. As a Senior Scientist within the Technical Services group at the Davey Institute, he provides technical support, conducts applied research, writes technical reports and is an Instructor in the Davey Institute’s arboriculture & lawn care courses.  He also provides Horticultural Sciences consulting services including plant problem diagnosis and landscape management. Dr. Ali is currently a Board-Certified Master Arborist.

NORM EASEY, Florida Chapter ISA
Norm has been active in urban forest management and arboriculture in Florida since receiving his bachelors’ degree in Forestry/Resource Management in 1980 from the University of Wisconsin. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the Florida Chapter ISA. Prior to that, he was the Forestry Manager for Sarasota County, Florida for 18 years.

DR. ED GILMAN, UF Professor Emeritus
Dr. Gilman was on the faculty since 1984 as professor in the Environmental Horticulture Department at the University of Florida in Gainesville. He received honorary membership in ASLA in 2016. Ed wrote “Illustrated Guide to Pruning” plus five other books. He received the Authors Citation Award in 1999, the Educators Award in 2003, the research award in 2007, and the Award of Merit in 2016 from ISA. He has published more than 120 scientific peer reviewed journal articles on roots, planting, & pruning trees in his 35 years in academia and industry.
   
DR. ANDREW KOESER, UF-GREC
Dr. Andrew Koeser is an assistant professor who heads the Urban Tree and Landscape Management lab at the University of Florida Gulf Coast Research & Education Center near Tampa, Florida. Andrew is an ISA Board-Certified Master Arborist. Prior to completing his doctoral studies, Andrew worked at the International Society of Arboriculture. Andrew is the author of Trees: North and Central Florida & Trees: South Florida and the Keys, visual tree identification guides. Andrew was awarded the ISA Early Career Scientist Award at the 2015 ISA Annual Meeting in Orlando.

MICHAEL MARSHALL, Marshall Tree Farm
Michael Marshall is Vice President at Marshall Tree Farm a 600-acre landscape tree farm in North Central Florida.  He studied horticulture at the University of Florida and received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Environmental Horticulture in 1994 and a Master of Science Degree in 1997.  Michael served on the Board of Directors for the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) for eleven years and was the Treasurer for ISA for five years.  He has been active with the Florida Chapter ISA since 1997 and served as the Florida Chapter President in 2004.
   
DR. THOMAS SMILEY, Bartlett Tree Experts
Dr. Tom Smiley is an arboricultural researcher at the Bartlett Tree Research Laboratory in Charlotte, NC and an adjunct professor of Urban Forestry at Clemson University. Dr. Smiley is active in the arboriculture industry and has co-authored the ISA’s Best Management Practices for Tree Risk Assessment, Lightning Protection, Fertilization, Support Systems, Soil Management and Construction Management. His research has led to improved methods of increasing sidewalk longevity near trees, protecting more trees from lightning damage, improving tree root growth in compacted soil using the patented Root Invigoration process, and predicting tree failures.
   
DR. JASON SMITH, UF-Forestry Resources and Conservation
Dr. Jason Smith is assistant professor of forest pathology in the School of Forest Resources and Conservation at the University of Florida. Jason conducts research and extension programs on diseases of trees and forest health. His research includes disease diagnosis, biology/epidemiology and developing disease-resistant trees.  Before coming to Florida in 2006, Jason was a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Minnesota.

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