22nd Annual Symposium Speakers
Jason Summers
A Developer’s Perspective on Investing in Good Street and Park Tree Outcomes Woodlea model as a Case Study by Jason Summers (project arborist) and Julian Gregg Project Manager. Jason Summers Over 23 years of local government experience in Parks management in a growing City. Passionate about trees and creating parks and streetscapes that flourish. Recently…
Natasha Pauli
Shaping the living architecture of the street: Understanding Perth’s native verge garden revolution. Once a marginal practice, installing native plants on residential street verges is becoming increasingly common – and a number of Perth local governments (as well as state government entities) are actively promoting and incentivising the practice. However, little information is available on…
Dr Scott Hawken
Miyawaki Mini Forests and Beneficial Biodiversity Patches within Cities The Miyawaki Method of forestry is an innovative Japanese approach to the rapid, cultivation of biodiverse forest patches within cities and their surrounds. It is an emerging global phenomenon that has inspired industry leaders, communities, and environmental practitioners around the world. By using such techniques to…
Dr Tim Johnson
Return on Investment in Trees: It’s a ‘No Brainer’! This session is about identifying where the real investment is when it comes to managing trees in an ‘asset management’ portfolio. About treating trees as part of an asset inventory in much the same way we consider power and water supply, communication infrastructure, drains, roads, footpaths,…
Ben Seamark
Data Does Grow on Trees Ben is presenting with Ian Seccafien; their presentation will focus on how the successful integration of the Forestree Tree Management System into their tree operations has driven service delivery improvements. How the software’s connection to Power Bi and subsequent data analysis has led to improved performance of staff and informed…
Professor David Pannell
Green is the new Gold – the value of urban trees David will outline the key lessons we have learned about the value of urban trees. Trees are valuable even if they don’t generate profits for somebody. They potentially provide amenity, aesthetic benefits, cooling, and habitat for wildlife. But how can we quantify and monetise…
Emma Lewellyn
Developing a Therapy Garden Emma Lewellyn Emma is a practicing Horticultural Therapist at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens. As a professional horticulturalist Emma has many years’ experience with Horticultural Therapy, Garden Education, Permaculture, and Garden and landscape design. Her practice is firmly planted in the ethics and principles of permaculture, honouring both earth care and people…
Paul Winter
Economic Garden & Garden of Health Tour Paul Winter Paul Winter is Senior Horticultural Curator at the Adelaide Botanic Garden. Every day he witnesses staff and visitors reap the benefits of decisions made 20, 50 or more than 100 years ago by past gardeners, curators and directors who planted trees that now dominate this landscape.…
Linda Collins
Botanic Park: Managing the Challenge of Tree Conservation & Fruit Bat Colony Conservation Linda Collins Linda has been a volunteer flying-fox rehabilitator, trainer, consultant and researcher for 33 years. She has worked in numerous colonies throughout New South Wales and Queensland with a range of roost canopies from rainforest, Bangalow palms, casuarinas to mangroves. Linda…
Kelly Bramhill
Developing a Therapy Garden Kelly Bramhill Kelly Bramhill has worked at the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium since 2015 in a variety of roles in the Public Programmes team. Kelly has a multidisciplinary background with experience in public programming, community engagement, education and training delivery in scientific and cultural institutions. With a background in compliance…
Karen Smith
Botanic Park: Managing the Challenge of Tree Conservation & Fruit Bat Colony Conservation Karen Smith Karen commenced her horticultural career as an Apprentice at the Adelaide Botanic Garden in 1987. Throughout her career she has held multiple roles across the horticultural industry including Roma Street Park Lands, Brisbane and the University of Adelaide, Waite Arboretum.…
John Sandham
Aussie Forest Tour John Sandham John took up an apprenticeship at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1972 and went on to develop his horticulture career at University of Durham Botanic Garden and the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh. John moved to Australia in 1989 and first started working for the Botanic Gardens of South Australia…
Thami Croeser
From parking to parks: the benefits of planting trees in Melbourne’s thousands of redundant car parking spaces Melbourne has large areas of on-street car-parking that could be converted into green space. In this presentation, I show (1) how these spaces can be identified, (2) how a carpark-sized planting area that delivers canopy, biodiversity and flood…
Natasha Davis
Celebrating our Iconic Red Gums through the ‘Eco-Arts Red Gum Trail’ Celebrating Red Gums is a community-founded movement to facilitate connection with the past, present and future River Red Gum landscapes of Australia. One of the projects emerging from this initiative is an Eco-Arts Trail. Through the use of technology, innovation and artistic mediums, the…
Ian Seccafien
Data Does Grow on Trees Together with Ben Seamark, Ian’s presentation will focus on how the successful integration of the Forestree Tree Management System into their tree operations has driven service delivery improvements. How the software’s connection to Power Bi and subsequent data analysis has led to improved performance of staff and informed decision making…
Dr Greg Moore OAM
Street Tree Cost Models for Australia The costs of maintaining an urban tree over its lifecycle have been considered in several models. However, are these models typical of larger, long-lived urban street trees growing under Australian conditions? The costs of maintaining an urban street tree under Australian management regimes, including purchase and planting costs of a…
