Timetable
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Tuesday, 25 April 2023
Lectures
Research for Trees
Chair: Prof. Dr. Dirk Dujesiefken, Forum Baumpflege08:00Opening of the Check-In-Counter
Trade show of the German Tree Care Conference starts
in the trade show hall and outside area10:00Welcome
with a welcoming speech by Reiner Erben, Augsburg
10:15Tree Care - The Development of a Complex Task in Urban Green Space - 30 years German Tree Care Conference
Heiner Baumgarten, ehem. Präsident der Deutschen Gartenamtsleiterkonferenz (GALK)
11:00Data doesn't lie… if it can be read. Why statistics are important for tree care.
Prof. Dr. Hubert Merkel, HAWK, Göttingen
11:45Practical presentations in the trade show hall and outside area
Coffee break12:30Does the shape of a fork say anything about its breaking strength?
Prof. Dr. Steffen Rust, HAWK, Göttingen
13:15Practical presentations in the trade show hall and outside area
Lunch breakResearch for Trees
Chair: Tanja Büttner, FLL, Bonn14:30Use of pressurized air lances in the soil – Quantifying the efficacy of treatment with laser scan imaging
Oliver Löwe, Prof. Dr. Thorsten Gaertig, HAWK, Göttingen
15:15Practical presentations in the trade show hall and outside area
Coffee breakShort Scientific Lectures
16:00Remediation of Soil Compaction using Plants
Dr. Katharina Weltecke, Baum & Boden, Bad Arolsen
16:15Identification of disturbances in the soil aeration using a mobile CO2 measuring device
Prof. Dr. Thorsten Gaertig, HAWK, Göttingen
16:30The efficacy of pneumatic soil remediation on common oaks. Results of a three-year field study
Felix Funke, HAWK, Göttingen
16:45Do Sonic Tomography and the Pulling-Test produce comparable results?
Prof. Dr. Steffen Rust, HAWK, Göttingen
17:00Trunk damage on young street trees. Results of a nationwide survey
Dana Schneider-Blank, HAWK, Göttingen
17:15Closing discussion
Tree Climbing Forum
Anchor Points
Chair: Christian „Puk“ Kruck, ropeworks, Tübingen08:00Opening of the Check-In-Counter
Trade show of the German Tree Care Conference starts
in the trade show hall and outside area09:45Welcoming the Climbers' Forum
10:00Hocus pocus crash mode!
Are arborists tired of life?
Anchor points for tree climbersMarkus Breithaupt, Kletterspezialisten GmbH & Co. KG,
Michelstadt10:45Failure of anchor points.
Practical and theoretical approachesAndreas Detter, TreeConsult, Gauting
Eva Mauz, Mauz Baumpflege, Baltmannsweiler12:00Practical presentations in the trade show hall and outside area
Lunch breakHealth Protection and Ergonomics
Chair: Kay Busemann, Baumpflegeteam Busemann, Freiburg13:30Accident statistics 2021, evaluation and assessment
Carsten Beinhoff, SVLFG, Kassel
Mark Bridge, treemagineers, Rannoch, Schottland14:15Handling the chainsaw in the tree and the dynamic balance between safety, ergonomics and efficiency
Christian Seiberth, baumzone, Bisamberg, A
15:00Practical presentations in the trade show hall and outside area
Coffee break15:45Naked Arborist, Part 3
‘Don't Hurt Another Day ‘Alex Laver, Tree Logic, Great Dunham/Norfolk, UK
16:30Closing discussion
in German with English translation in English with German translation -
Wednesday, 26 April 2023
Lectures
Sponge City - Trees and Water
Chair: Thomas Kowol, Institute of Arboriculture, Hamburg08:00Begin of trade show
in the trade show hall and outside area
08:30Trees under Water - A critical look on tree sites with infiltration function
Gerhard Doobe, GALK, Hamburg, Dr. Markus Streckenbach,
Sachverständigenbüro für urbane Vegetation, Bochum09:15Urban Soils: achievements and future challenges for urban trees
Prof. Dr. Annette Eschenbach, Universität Hamburg
10:00Practical presentations in the trade show hall and outside area
Coffee break10:45Decentralized stormwater management for tree pits - objectives, examples and open questions
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Dickhaut, HCU, Hamburg
11:30Decentralized Stormwater Management for tree pits - findings from planning, construction and monitoring in the BlueGreenStreets research project
Dr. Michael Richter, HCU, Hamburg
12:15Practical presentations in the trade show hall and outside area
Lunch breakSponge City - Trees and Water
Chair: Dr. Markus Streckenbach, Sachverständigenbüro
für urbane Vegetation, Bochum13:45Trees and Stormwater Management - 20 years of experience with the Stockholm Model
Britt-Marie Alvem, Stadt Stockholm, S
14:30Practical presentations in the trade show hall and outside area
Coffee break15:15Optimization of tree sites in inner-city areas - experiences with the Stockholm Model in Graz
Tomas Stoisser, Referat für Grün- und Freiraumplanung,
Stadt Graz, AShort Scientific Lecture
16:00From a tree infiltration system to the soil-pipe-system - expansion of the storage space and root space by using the pipe trench
Christoph Bennerscheidt, EADIPS/FGR, Herten
16:15Closing discussion with all speakers
Tree Climbing Forum
Rescue / Conservation of veteran trees
Chair: Florim Ajda, arbres et partenaires Sàrl, Chexbres, CH08:00Begin of trade show
in the trade show hall and outside area
09:00Interfaces with the rescue services, approaches when dealing with an injured person in a tree
Knut Foppe, Ingenieurbüro SafeRope, Berlin
09:45Rescue? Anybody know how to do it - or do they?
From basic to complex rescue, techniques examined step by stepPeter Vergote, TreeMagicBeers, Elversele, B
Lucas Godts, Arborist Lucas, Leuven, B
Tree Rescue Manual10:45Practical presentations in the trade show hall and outside area
Coffee break11:30Measures for the conservation of a red-leaved beech, a résumé
Jürgen Unger, Eichhorn Baumpflege, Hörstel
12:15How do I tell my customers...? Good arguments for the preservation of old trees
Stefanie Weigelmeier, dendrophilia, Göttingen
Bea Linnert, Baumbüro Linnert, Bremen13:00Practical presentations in the trade show hall and outside area
Lunch breakConservation of veteran trees / Tree care practices
Chair: Mark Bridge, treemagineers, Rannoch, Schottland14:15Case studies of veteran tree management throughout Europe: do’s and don’t’s for arborists
Tom Joye, Natuurinvest, Brüssel, B
15:00Leadership, philosophy and the seldom discussed underpinnings of being an arborist
Tony Tresselt, Keystone Training Solutions LLC, Pomeroy, USA
15:45Practical presentations in the trade show hall and outside area
Coffee break16:30What could be wrong? Situations that climbers can encounter and how to avoid it.
Dror Lazarovitch and Ran Solomon, Alonim Ltd., Haifa, Isreal
17:15Alternative transport concepts in tree care, cargo bikes and co: possibilities, opportunities and limits
Tim Schröder, BaumDienst Nortis, Hamburg
Roland Schindler, Baum & Seil, Dusslingenin German with English translation in English with German translation -
Thursday, 27 April 2023
Lectures
Tree Management
Chair: Prof. Dr. Klaus Richter, TU München08:00Begin of trade show
in the trade show hall and outside area
08:30Zur Effektivität von Baumschutzsatzungen anhand
von Beispielen aus Bayern und Nordrhein-WestfalenChristopher Busch, BUND Bayern
Prof. Dr. Daniel Mühlleitner, Hochschule Kehl09:15i-Tree: a powerful tool for creating healthy urban forests with a focus on ecosystem services.
Mark Rotteveel, Pius Floris, Reeuwijk, NL
10:00Practical presentations in the trade show hall and outside area
Coffee break10:45Resilience and crown retrenchment in veteran trees: how to interpret the signs?
Tom Joye, inverde, Brüssel, B
Short Scientific Lecture
11:30Usability of the "i-Tree Eco" programme in German municipalities
Hannes Pillsticker, HAWK, Göttingen"
11:45Discussion with all speakers
12:00Practical presentations in the trade show hall and outside area
Lunch breakTree Management
Chair: Thomas Amtage, Forum Baumpflege13:15Understandable and testable: The requirements for a written tree appraisal report
Prof. Dr. Dirk Dujesiefken, Institut für Baumpflege, Hamburg
14:00Practical presentations in the trade show hall and outside area
Coffee break14:30The "edible city" - suitable fruit tree species for urban areas
Siegfried Tatschl, Lust auf Obst-Essbare Lebensräume, Engelmannbrunn, AT
15:15Veteran and National Heritage Trees - fascination, specifics, risks and opportunities
Prof. Dr. Andreas Roloff, TU Dresden
16:00Closing discussion
16:15Have a safe trip back home
See you next year 23.-25. April 2024
Tree Climbing Forum
Rigging and Forces
Chair: Anja Erni, astwerk baumpflege, Roggwil, CH08:00Begin of trade show
in the trade show hall and outside area
09:00To Pull a Tree
Max Olesko, Baumklettermax, Oberwölbling, A
Remy Gschwandtner, Baumpartner Arboristik, Steyr, A
Philip Wenninger, Die Baumpfleger, Winzendorf, A09:45Speedlines, slide lines and reeving systems – from simple to complex
Max Soballa, Soballa Baumpflege, Rottweil
10:30Practical presentations in the trade show hall and outside area
Coffee break11:15Efficiencies of pulley in climbing and rigging systems
Luis Alberto Diaz, Urban Forestry, Malaga, E
12:00Windows into treecare: The craziness of treework in the South Pacific islands
Drew Bristow, TreeSolutionsFiji, Fantasy Island, Fiji Islands
12:45Practical presentations in the trade show hall and outside area
Lunch breakRope climbing technique - thinking outside the box
Chair: Martina Borowski14:15Using the rope climbing technique to search for forest seeds in times of climate change - Europe and North America
Kay Busemann, Baumpflegeteam Busemann, Freiburg
15:00Woody pathogen detection dogs in tree care, forestry, species and environmental protection: Experiences on possibilities and limits of dog use
Dana Schneider-Blank, Sachverständigenbüro, Schnega
15:45Closing discussion
16:00Have a safe trip back home
See you next year 23.-25. April 2024
in German with English translation in English with German translation