GCA Zone VI Urban Forestry Fellowship - Current and Past Recipients
2008 Graduate Fellow - Tara L. E. Trammell, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky.
Project Title: Urban Forest Patches along Interstate Corridors in Louisville, KY: Community Composition, Ecosystem Dynamics, and Their Potential to Provide Ecosystem Services.
2008 Graduate Fellow- Evan Keto, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Project Title: Analysis of the Composition, Ecosystem Effects, and Economic Costs of Trees in Parking Lots in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Project Description: Parking lots can vary greatly in the number, size, and species of trees they contain, but the effects of this variation are largely unknown. I will use GIS and remote sensing techniques on parking lots in Raleigh, North Carolina, to determine how the composition of trees varies between different kinds of parking lots. I will then collect field measurements from a sample of these parking lots, and use these measurements to assess the costs and benefits associated with the different arrangements of trees.
2008 Undergraduate Fellow- Rebecca Bakker, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Project title: Retrospective Survey: Trees Suitable for the Mid-Atlantic Urban Landscapes of Morrisville and Yardley, Pennsylvania.
2007-2008 Graduate Fellow- Lara A.Roman, University of California, Berkeley.
Project Title: Plant-Soil Relationships in the Urban Forest. Project
Description: Urban forest mortality and decline may be primarily due to poor soil conditions. The goals of my research are: 1) to monitor the health and mortality of street trees in the San Francisco Bay Area over three years, 2) to describe soil conditions in street tree soil pits, and 3) to quantify the extent to which street tree health and mortality may be attributed to soil conditions.
2007 Graduate Fellow - Yvette Williams, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Project Title: Linking Urban Forestry to Urban Revitalization
2006-2007 Graduate Fellow - Kelby Fite, Clemson University.
Project Title: The impact of Root Invigoration™ on red maple (Acer rubrum) performance at four urban sites in the Eastern United States
2006 Undergraduate Fellow - Evan Henrich, Boston College.
Project Title: Green in Grey: Community Empowerment through Urban Greening with case studies from San Jose (Costa Rica), Quito (Ecuador), and Boston (USA).
