The Urban Forestry Institute

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The Urban Forestry Institute

• Extending Ohio State University to The World

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The Land Grant Mission

• Morrill Act of 1862/1890
• Colleges of Agriculture
• Hatch Act 1887
• Agriculture Experiment Stations
• Smith-Lever Act 1914
• Cooperative Extension Service
• McIntire-Stennes Act 1962
• Added Forestry Research

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Urban Forestry

• As a discipline is included in
• Colleges of Agriculture
• Department of Horticulture
• Department of Plant Science
• Colleges of Natural Resources/Forestry
• Departments of Forestry
• Department of Recreation
• Departments of Natural Resources

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Urban Forestry Expertise

• Scattered (Ex Tree Root Research)
• Stem Girdling Roots (Minnesota)
• Gary Johnson
• Root Mechanics (New Jersey)
• Jason Grabosky
• Root Soil Interactions (South Carolina)
• Christina Wells
• Root Microbial Interactions (Illinois)
• Bryant Scharenbroch

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Urban Forestry Outreach

• Usually the same one faculty member
• A few extension agents or faculty in supporting
  disciplines (plant pathology, entomology, etc)
• Except at The Ohio State University
• Extension Nursery Landscape Turf Team
• Why Trees Matter

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Urban Forestry Education

• Where do degree programs exist?
• Teaching schools (4 year)
• UW-Stevens Point (2 faculty)
• Western Illinois University (1 faculty)
• Others (1 faculty)
• Texas AM, Rutgers, UMass, Ohio State, Iowa
  State, South Dakota State
• Programs eliminated or reduced to minor
• Minnesota, Idaho, Illinois, many others

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Urban Forestry Education

• Where do most of our Urban Foresters come from?
• Horticulture/Plant Science, Landscape
  Architecture
• Forestry, Natural Resources, Recreation
• Missing key tools that they need on the job
• Diagnostics, Management, Urban Systems
• Hit and miss with on the job training or outreach

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Possibilities

• Outside the academic box

A New Model for Post-Graduate Education
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Where Are We Going?
Connect expertise, education and outreach through
an International Program
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The Model

• Enhance traditional and non-traditional
  educational and research efforts in Urban
  Forestry by connecting the Faculty and their
  specialties to the bigger playing field.
• Collaborative research
• Community-based research
• Education in all aspects of Urban Forestry in one
  place

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Who are we?

• Currently

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Who are we?
Joe Boggs Example
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Is there any data on water percolation through
different organic soils and colloidal structure?
Need for engineering training for water quality
efforts in Cincinnati.
Ask John Lloyd, I think he knows something about
soil.
I know there is data out there, but not with the
new Silva cells and CU soils, maybe we should
collect some. Bryant would have a better
perspective.
There is plenty of data on engineered soils, but
not with impacts of organic matter.
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Joe gets his limited answer for the training
session and then works with Bryant and John to
design the Cincinnati project into a research
trial
Data collected from the Cincinnati Project will
be distributed through UFI channels to the
community of researchers and practitioners in
2011-2012.
Coordinated Research and Outreach
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Who Are We?

• As of Winter 2009 and 2010
• University Faculty (14 Institutions)
• Practicing Faculty (6 Companies/Agencies)
• Across 4 Countries (11 Hardiness Zones)
• Coordinated through

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What Are We Doing?

• Curriculum Development
• Traditional Model 32 credit M.S. Program
• Non-Traditional Diploma of Scholarship
• 72 credits of courses available
• Web-based course support
• Two week intensive on-site training
• Project based evaluation
• Transferred to the industry

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Curriculum
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• Core Competencies
• Urban Tree Diagnostics
• Six courses for 15 credits
• Urban Tree Function
• Five courses for 14 credits
• Urban Tree Health Management
• Six courses for 16 credits
• Urban Tree Structural Dynamics
• Five courses for 11 credits
• Management
• Seven courses for 17 credits

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Diploma of Scholarship

• Completion of entire core
• Can receive a D.S. in
• Diagnostics
• Tree Function
• Tree Health Management
• Tree Structural Dynamics
• Management
• Commitment to Continuing Education

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Masters Degree Program(s)

• Two Plans
• Project Based
• Master of Arts
• Research Based
• Masters of Science

Arborology
Arbor of , or dealing with trees ology The
study and science of
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Masters

• Assigned an advisory committee
• Take 32 credits determined by committee
• Develop project or research with committee
• Project/Research is in local community
• Advisor meets 2x per year in community
• Research Projects
• Published
• Utilized in the Field
• i-Tree
• Implementation protocols
• ISA/TCIA

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Accreditation
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Classes Start Spring 2010