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Name: Dr Greg McPherson
Current Position: Director of the Center for Urban Forest
Research, US Forest Service and Faculty Member of UC
Davis, Department of Plant Sciences
Role: UHI Technology and Strategy Specialist
Telephone Number: +1 530 759 1723
E‐mail: gmcpherson@fs.fed.us
Dr Greg McPherson is the Center Director for Urban Forest Research at the US Forest Service. In
addition to Dr McPherson leadership responsibilities, he conducts research that measures and
models the benefits and costs of urban forests. He teaches urban forestry courses at UC Davis and
is a faculty member of the Graduate Group in Geography and the Horticulture Graduate Group.
He received a Bachelorʹs of General Studies from the University of Michigan in 1975, a Masterʹs
degree in Landscape Architecture from Utah State University in 1981, and a Ph.D. in Forestry
from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry at Syracuse in 1986. After
completing his Ph.D., Dr McPherson was an Assistant and Associate Professor at the University
of Arizonaʹs School of Renewable Resources for six years. He then joined the Forest Service as the
lead scientist on the Chicago Urban Forest Climate Project in 1991. Dr McPherson has been at the
Center since 1993.
Name: Tim Oke
Current Position: Professor in the Department of
Geography and Member, Atmospheric Science Program,
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Role: UHI Phenomenon Expert
Telephone Number: +1 604 822 2900
E‐mail: toke@geog.ubc.ca
Professor Tim Oke is a recognized leader in the study of microclimates and is the foremost
authority on urban climates. His research focuses on seeking to understand the way humans alter
climates through urban development. Specifically, exchanges of heat, moisture, pollutants and
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