Storms Over the Urban Forest National Conference
May 21-22, 2007
Atlanta, Georgia
The National Arbor Day Foundation is presenting the Storms Over the Urban Forest National Conference at Zoo Atlanta's Coca-Cola World Studio in Atlanta, Georgia. A highlight of this conference will be presentations by CNN National Correspondent, Gary Tuchman; Weather Channel host and Climate and Environment Expert, Dr. Heidi Cullen; and Undersecretary, Natural Resources & Environment, of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Mark Rey.
This conference will focus on the planning, response and recovery processes necessary to address storms affecting urban and community forests. Attendees will learn how to coordinate urban forestry and emergency management responses to storms, which tree species are resistant to hurricane damage and which are most likely to fail, and how to raise funds and mobilize community action to support replanting and recovery efforts.
Each attendee will receive the most important, easy-to-use resources to have available when a storm strikes. An input session at the close of the conference will give attendees the opportunity to provide ideas on improving storm preparedness.
Attendees from all parts of the country will learn the fundamentals of disaster management and other valuable storm response and recovery information.
About the Speakers
Dr. Heidi Cullen is the climate expert at The Weather Channel and has the key responsibility of adding explanation, depth, and perspective to climate stories for The Weather Channel network and other platforms. Dr. Cullen, a scientist of international standing in climate research on the staff of The Weather Channel, is helping to build the company's climate program through the development of new products and by helping to strengthen relationships within the scientific community.
Mark E. Rey was sworn in as the undersecretary for natural resources and environment by Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman on October 2, 2001. In this position, Rey oversees the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service and Natural Resource Conservation Service. Since January 1995, Rey has served as a staff member with the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. He was the lead staff person for the committee's work on national forest policy and Forest Service administration.
Gary Tuchman is a CNN national correspondent based in Atlanta, having joined the network in 1990. Tuchman has covered numerous stories for CNN, including breaking news events. Tuchman spent much of the summer and fall of 2005 covering hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma in Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida and Texas. He earned a bachelor of science degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University.
To register or view a complete agenda, visit the National Arbor Day Foundation.
