ADVANCED TRAINING WORKSHOP AND
67th ANNUAL SHADE TREE CONFERENCE
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January 18-20, 2023
Online registration is closed. Please plan to register/pay at the door if you have not already registered. Event Location: Hilton Garden Inn, 410 S 3rd St, Manhattan KS Reservations: via location website - Group Code KSARB or call 785-532-9116 Make reservations by December 23 for group rate of $99/night Printable downloads: 2023 Shade Tree Conference Program Registration Form |
WEDNESDAY ADVANCED ARBORISTS TRAINING WORKSHOP
7:30 Registration opens
8:00-9:15 Cutting Edge: An inside out approach to bolster safety and accountability in tree felling operations - Will Moore
9:15-10:30 Aerial Rescue Techniques and Primary Care - Dave Stice and Bryan Brock
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:00 Aerial Rescue Techniques and Primary Care (continued)
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-3:30 Aerial Rescue Techniques and Primary Care (continued)
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45-5:00 Maintaining Your Body as an Arborist - Nicole (‘Carni’) Benjamin
5:00-7:00 Social with Exhibitors
THURSDAY SHADE TREE CONFERENCE
7:30 Registration Opens
8:00-8:15 Welcome – Skyler Delmott, President KAA
8:15-8:30 Introduction of Exhibitors
8:30-9:30 Tree Tolerance to Moisture Stress: Tree Tricks Up Their Leaves - Dr. Richard Hauer
9:30-10:15 Trees in the Multi-Purpose Landscape - Graham Herbst
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-11:30 Panel: Diagnosing Challenging Tree Issues– Hauer, Herbst, McDonnell, Spurgeon
11:30-12:45 Lunch on your own
12:45-1:30 Kansas Arborists Association Business Meeting
1:30-2:30 Wood Decay - Chelsi Abbott
2:30-3:15 Promoting interactions among homeowners & their trees - Nicole (‘Carni’) Benjamin
3:15-3:30 Break
3:30-4:15 Advancements in Tree Injection Research and Technology - Dr. Richard Hauer
4:15-5:00 Oak Decline - Chelsi Abbott
5:00-6:30 Social with Exhibitors – Cash Bar
6:30 Banquet
FRIDAY SHADE TREE CONFERENCE
8:00 Registration Opens –
8:30-9:30 Our Woody Plants Face Many Challenges: The “Gloom and Doom” of Pest and Disease management Part 1 - Dr. Fredric Miller
9:30-10:30 Two faced fungi: clues to tell the good from the bad - Dr. Ben Sikes
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:45 Our Woody Plants Face Many Challenges: The “Gloom and Doom” of Pest and Disease Management: Part 2 - Dr. Fredric Miller
11:45-1:00 Lunch on your own
1:00-2:00 Trees and Turf - Dr. Jason Griffin
2:00-3:00 Pesticide Regulations (Core Hour) – Kansas Department of Agriculture
3:00-3:15 Closing Remarks/Adjourn
Credits toward Pesticide Applicator Recertification: KDA Pesticide Regs Update 1 core hour, 3A/3B credits available
ISA CEU’S will be available and announced for each session
7:30 Registration opens
8:00-9:15 Cutting Edge: An inside out approach to bolster safety and accountability in tree felling operations - Will Moore
9:15-10:30 Aerial Rescue Techniques and Primary Care - Dave Stice and Bryan Brock
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:00 Aerial Rescue Techniques and Primary Care (continued)
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-3:30 Aerial Rescue Techniques and Primary Care (continued)
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45-5:00 Maintaining Your Body as an Arborist - Nicole (‘Carni’) Benjamin
5:00-7:00 Social with Exhibitors
THURSDAY SHADE TREE CONFERENCE
7:30 Registration Opens
8:00-8:15 Welcome – Skyler Delmott, President KAA
8:15-8:30 Introduction of Exhibitors
8:30-9:30 Tree Tolerance to Moisture Stress: Tree Tricks Up Their Leaves - Dr. Richard Hauer
9:30-10:15 Trees in the Multi-Purpose Landscape - Graham Herbst
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-11:30 Panel: Diagnosing Challenging Tree Issues– Hauer, Herbst, McDonnell, Spurgeon
11:30-12:45 Lunch on your own
12:45-1:30 Kansas Arborists Association Business Meeting
1:30-2:30 Wood Decay - Chelsi Abbott
2:30-3:15 Promoting interactions among homeowners & their trees - Nicole (‘Carni’) Benjamin
3:15-3:30 Break
3:30-4:15 Advancements in Tree Injection Research and Technology - Dr. Richard Hauer
4:15-5:00 Oak Decline - Chelsi Abbott
5:00-6:30 Social with Exhibitors – Cash Bar
6:30 Banquet
FRIDAY SHADE TREE CONFERENCE
8:00 Registration Opens –
8:30-9:30 Our Woody Plants Face Many Challenges: The “Gloom and Doom” of Pest and Disease management Part 1 - Dr. Fredric Miller
9:30-10:30 Two faced fungi: clues to tell the good from the bad - Dr. Ben Sikes
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:45 Our Woody Plants Face Many Challenges: The “Gloom and Doom” of Pest and Disease Management: Part 2 - Dr. Fredric Miller
11:45-1:00 Lunch on your own
1:00-2:00 Trees and Turf - Dr. Jason Griffin
2:00-3:00 Pesticide Regulations (Core Hour) – Kansas Department of Agriculture
3:00-3:15 Closing Remarks/Adjourn
Credits toward Pesticide Applicator Recertification: KDA Pesticide Regs Update 1 core hour, 3A/3B credits available
ISA CEU’S will be available and announced for each session
2023 KAA - Shade Tree Conference - Speaker Biographies
Dave Stice is the technical expert for Wesspur and travels to many events throughout the year as a judge and volunteer. He is the head instructor and technical expert for the Ascension Group and has helped many climbers improve their skills and safety.
Will Moore is a private contractor for state and federal hazard tree felling operations. He is a certified arborist, qualified tree risk assessor, and instructor for The Art of Felling Timber.
Chelsi Abbott is a technical advisor and education specialist with the Davey Institute. She has her master’s degree in plant pathology, is an ISA certified arborist, holds her TRAQ qualification, in is a certified forest therapy guide.
Graham Herbst is a native Nebraskan and graduate of the Horticulture Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. After working in the landscape and arboriculture industries, he moved to the Nebraska Forest Service to promote innovative Urban Forestry Projects as the Community Forestry Specialist for Eastern Nebraska. He is a certified arborist and the President of the MWISA.
Dr. Richard Hauer is a professor of Urban Forestry at the University of Wisconsin—Stevens Point, teaching courses in urban forestry, nursery management, woody plants, dendrology, and introduction to forestry. Rich conducts research in tree biology, urban forest management, emerald ash borer management, trees and construction, tree risk management, and ice storms. He was honored as the 2018 L.C. Chadwick Award for Arboriculture Research. He is also the Director of Urban forestry at CNUC.
Dr. Fredric Miller is a professor of horticulture in the Department of Agriculture and Horticulture Sciences at Joliet Junior College, Joliet, Illinois, and a Senior Scientist – Entomology at The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois. He received his B.S.F. in Forest Management from the University of Missouri, a M.S. in Forest Entomology from the University of Arkansas, and a Ph.D. in Urban Forest Entomology, with a minor in Plant Pathology, from Iowa State University. Dr. Miller currently serves as the Illinois DNR forest health specialist and is a Board Certified Master Arborist (BCMA). He is actively involved with the Illinois chapter (IAA) of the ISA. His applied research focuses on the host plant resistance of ornamental woody plants for major economic insect pests, biological control of the emerald ash borer (EAB), and EAB population dynamics.
Dr. Benjamin Sikes is an associate professor of microbial ecology in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at the University of Kansas. He is cross appointed as an associate scientist in the Kansas Biological Survey. His research focuses mainly on soil and plant-associated fungi, exploring their community ecology and functions for improving restoration, agriculture, and stress resistance. His recent projects include working on soil fungi under perennial crops, fire-adapted fungi, and how management decisions impact ecology along property boundaries. He is a co-author of the recently released book, A New Guide to Kansas Mushrooms.
Bryan Brock has 18 years in the industry. He has taught classes in advanced arboricultural techniques in France, Estonia, and all over the east coast, including a class with Dr. Ed Gilman on advanced pruning. He has participated in countless tree climbing competitions and won NAOM 2017, Appalachia TCC 2018, Natural State 2018, and Treepalooza 2021.
Nicole (‘Carni’) Benjamin-Harden—An ISA Certified Arborist and is the co-owner/operator of 2 Dog Crew, LLC. She chose to leave the corporate world as a project manager in 2015 with the desire to have a sense of challenge, accomplishment, and dirty hands at the end of the day. While she is primarily a contract climber working in the Charlotte area for various companies, she and her family (husband, daughter, & 2 dogs travel from the East coast to the West coast to work on specific tree work projects with friends, to extend vacations into “workcations,” and to help with the Women’s Tree Climbing Workshop (WTCW) and other trainings.
Dave Stice is the technical expert for Wesspur and travels to many events throughout the year as a judge and volunteer. He is the head instructor and technical expert for the Ascension Group and has helped many climbers improve their skills and safety.
Will Moore is a private contractor for state and federal hazard tree felling operations. He is a certified arborist, qualified tree risk assessor, and instructor for The Art of Felling Timber.
Chelsi Abbott is a technical advisor and education specialist with the Davey Institute. She has her master’s degree in plant pathology, is an ISA certified arborist, holds her TRAQ qualification, in is a certified forest therapy guide.
Graham Herbst is a native Nebraskan and graduate of the Horticulture Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. After working in the landscape and arboriculture industries, he moved to the Nebraska Forest Service to promote innovative Urban Forestry Projects as the Community Forestry Specialist for Eastern Nebraska. He is a certified arborist and the President of the MWISA.
Dr. Richard Hauer is a professor of Urban Forestry at the University of Wisconsin—Stevens Point, teaching courses in urban forestry, nursery management, woody plants, dendrology, and introduction to forestry. Rich conducts research in tree biology, urban forest management, emerald ash borer management, trees and construction, tree risk management, and ice storms. He was honored as the 2018 L.C. Chadwick Award for Arboriculture Research. He is also the Director of Urban forestry at CNUC.
Dr. Fredric Miller is a professor of horticulture in the Department of Agriculture and Horticulture Sciences at Joliet Junior College, Joliet, Illinois, and a Senior Scientist – Entomology at The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois. He received his B.S.F. in Forest Management from the University of Missouri, a M.S. in Forest Entomology from the University of Arkansas, and a Ph.D. in Urban Forest Entomology, with a minor in Plant Pathology, from Iowa State University. Dr. Miller currently serves as the Illinois DNR forest health specialist and is a Board Certified Master Arborist (BCMA). He is actively involved with the Illinois chapter (IAA) of the ISA. His applied research focuses on the host plant resistance of ornamental woody plants for major economic insect pests, biological control of the emerald ash borer (EAB), and EAB population dynamics.
Dr. Benjamin Sikes is an associate professor of microbial ecology in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at the University of Kansas. He is cross appointed as an associate scientist in the Kansas Biological Survey. His research focuses mainly on soil and plant-associated fungi, exploring their community ecology and functions for improving restoration, agriculture, and stress resistance. His recent projects include working on soil fungi under perennial crops, fire-adapted fungi, and how management decisions impact ecology along property boundaries. He is a co-author of the recently released book, A New Guide to Kansas Mushrooms.
Bryan Brock has 18 years in the industry. He has taught classes in advanced arboricultural techniques in France, Estonia, and all over the east coast, including a class with Dr. Ed Gilman on advanced pruning. He has participated in countless tree climbing competitions and won NAOM 2017, Appalachia TCC 2018, Natural State 2018, and Treepalooza 2021.
Nicole (‘Carni’) Benjamin-Harden—An ISA Certified Arborist and is the co-owner/operator of 2 Dog Crew, LLC. She chose to leave the corporate world as a project manager in 2015 with the desire to have a sense of challenge, accomplishment, and dirty hands at the end of the day. While she is primarily a contract climber working in the Charlotte area for various companies, she and her family (husband, daughter, & 2 dogs travel from the East coast to the West coast to work on specific tree work projects with friends, to extend vacations into “workcations,” and to help with the Women’s Tree Climbing Workshop (WTCW) and other trainings.