Webinar CAC: Factoring Wood Decay into Risk Assessment
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$30.00
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Webinar Time: 10am - 11am (PST)
Description: This webinar will cover the principles of the ecology and the biology of wood decay fungi in trees. It will present some scenarios of tree failures associated with wood decay and the interplay between drought, primary diseases, insects and decay processes. It will cover an example of a tree health assessment approach that includes decay and will introduce the attendees to the major groups of wood decay fungi. The webinar will end with the presentation of my recent work at U.C Berkeley describing the entire microbiome- including hundreds of fungal species- present in trees with cavities.
Speaker Bio: Matteo Garbelotto, a Venetian by birth, has spent the majority of his life in California but owes his passion for forests to his early upbringing in the famous Dolomites. A researcher at U.C. Berkeley since 1990 and a faculty there since 2000, he has created and directed the UCB Forest Pathology and Mycology Laboratory, a research center offering diagnostic services and applied solutions to protect both urban and wild forests in California. An adviser to several governments, Matteo is a world expert on invasive plant pathogens and on root and stem wood decay fungi. He is a Fulbright scholar, an officer of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations, an Editor on the Australasian Journal of Plant Pathology and of Phytopathologia Mediterranea, and, since 2020, he has been the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Plant Pathology. He divides his time between basic research, applied research, outreach and extension and, finally, citizen science. He has created and leads the SOD blitzes; a large-scale volunteer-based survey of Sudden Oak Death across California. Currently, his main research interests include tree-pathogen molecular interactions, the intersection between climate change and tree diseases and the description of fungal communities in wood.
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$20.00 Member Fee
$30.00 Non Member Fee
CEUs
1.5 CA/CTC/CUFP
1.5 BCMA - Practice
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