The Gigantic Kapok Tree
6th August 2011Trees, People and the Built Environment
This years ICF conference ‘Trees, People and the Built Environment’, was a great experience. At around 400 delegates this was probably the largest number ever seen at a tree conference in the UK. Nearly all of the 29 speakers were academic doctors and the international flavour was great, with nine of them invited from overseas; so it was an honour for me to stand up alongside them to represent my research and then get my brains picked by an audience of arboricultural experts afterwards. Luckily I had help from friends in producing some excellent graphics to illustrate the talk, and these certainly helped my confidence. All in, it was great to be involved in what has been described as the ‘cutting edge of urban tree research’. The full Conference Presentations are available to download here:
Adam
I'm a Chartered Arboriculturist at AWA Tree Consultants Ltd. As well as detailing our recent tree survey and arboricultural consultant work, this blog includes wide ranging arboricultural musings, including tree facts, opinion and anecdotes on trees in human culture.
