Announcing our 2021 keynote speaker

We’re pleased to announce our keynote speaker for ECoGSS 2021.

We’re building a program of talented, creative, brilliant people to share their insights and experience. We wanted our keynote to be a combination of an established as well as an emerging voice who has something to say from the diverse fields within conservation science.

“The Urban Tree and Me”

Casey Clapp is an arborist and dendrologist based out of Portland, Oregon.

Our invited speaker is J. Casey Clapp. Casey is co-host of the podcast Completely Arbortrary, and enjoys learning and talking about all sorts of things, namely trees. He got his Bachelor of Science in Forest Management, with a focus on Urban Forestry, and his Masters of Arboriculture and Urban Forestry at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. As the Forester for the city of Portland, Oregon, Casey is responsible for reviewing and permitting street-tree work associated with housing or commercial development.

Follow Casey Clapp at Instagram.com/Clapp4Trees and his new podcast Instagram.com/arbortrarypod