[CEU] Healthy Soils Support Healthy Trees – Amazing Soil Genomics

This CEU course is offered by Zynnovation LLC, a registered provider, and proudly supported by CADdetails. Successful attendees will receive a certificate of completion issued by Zynnovation LLC.

Description

Urban forests are vital to our urban ecosystems. Landscape architects understand the benefits trees provide, with a large canopy reducing the urban heat island effect. Tree canopy can also enhance residents’ overall health and quality of life. However, urban forests face various challenges, including soil degradation, pollution, invasive pests, and changing climate. Most soils in developed sites have organic matter depletion and compaction.

Soil Genomics is a fascinating field that explores how microbes in the soil affect the health and growth of plants and trees. Through testing, analysis, and organic treatments, soil genomics can address these challenges by better understanding the composition and function of the soil microbial communities and how they respond to environmental stressors such as pollution and changing climate. It is like DNA test, but for soil.

This knowledge can be used to develop more effective strategies for managing soil health in urban forests, such as promoting the growth of beneficial microorganisms, exopolysaccharides (EPS), and improving soil structure and nutrient availability.

The goal of community trees is to generate a large canopy that improves air quality, shades and reduces temperatures, improves public health, and larger trees sequester more carbon.

This presentation shares cutting-edge knowledge and technologies to the community forestry supporters to improve how we grow trees for the long term where the benefits are realized from mature tree canopies. The treatments to improve soil biomes and microbials are usually very affordable and build the soil components to self-regulate their ability to grow better trees.

Starting from July 2023, soil samples from cities across the United States have been analyzed. The results will be revealed.

Learning Outcomes

1. Attendees will learn the benefits of healthy trees and the importance of nurturing them to maturity and maintaining them.

2. Attendees will understand the basics of how soil genomics supports local testing and building a database to improve soil health, as well as the factors that affect the soil microbiome.

3. Attendees will learn technologies that promote and boost the soil microbiome and the underground community, which includes microbials, insects, organic matter, water and air.

Duration: 1 hour