Corey Bassett is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, Canada, where she is researching urban forest management and ecosystem services. She has worked and lived across the United States, where she has managed statewide urban and community forestry programs and performed arboricultural consulting and municipal tree care. She is very active around issues such as establishing career and mentorship pipelines for early career professionals, setting standards for tree care for wildlife, and connecting urban forestry with related disciplines.

Her research aims to develop an urban forest management action framework, through synthesizing multiple research disciplines and connecting human actions with the ecosystem services they stand to impact.

Susan Day is a Professor of Urban Forestry in the Department of Forest Resources Management and the Program Director for the urban forestry degree at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Susan’s research focuses on managing urban soils to enhance tree growth and longevity in the context of environmental challenges such as storm water mitigation and land development impacts on soil-mediated ecosystem services. She helped define the soils metrics for the Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES®) international crediting system for sustainable design projects and developed Soil Profile Rebuilding, a rehabilitation technique to restore damaged urban soils in situ and enhance urban soil carbon storage. Her research on trees in confined spaces and in engineered soil systems has informed storm water policy in the Chesapeake Bay region of the United States. She is the 2017 recipient of the L.C. Chadwick Award for Arboricultural Research. Susan holds a B.A. from Yale University, a M.S. from Cornell University, and a Ph.D. from Virginia Tech.