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Aren Dottenwhy is an urban forester with Davey Resource Group, specializing in tree inventory projects for municipalities and parks. She has directed the street and park tree inventory in Lakeland, Florida and assisted with similar large-scale inventories in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Charlotte, North Carolina. In all cases, a pen-based GIS data collection unit was employed. In 2005 and 2006, she has participated in the collection of reference city data for the development of Street Tree Resource Analysis Tool for Urban Forest Managers (STRATUM). STRATUM, developed by the U. S. Forest Service, is a model used for analyzing the benefits of urban street trees as well as the costs of managing them. Ms. Dottenwhy has collected data for this important project in Boise, Honolulu, and Indianapolis. Ms. Dottenwhy's past internship experiences include working as a crew assistant on the Northern Divide Grizzly Bear Project, where she helped estimate the number of grizzly bears inhabiting the northern continental divide ecosystem. She also has experience as a crew chief and GIS digitizer on the Upper Wabash Ecosystem Project (UWEP), a Purdue University project studying soil, water, forest, fish, human, and wildlife resources in the Wabash Basin in Indiana, as well as personal attitudes toward these resources. Ms. Dottenwhy is a Certified Arborist (IN-3190A) through the International Society of Arboriculture, and a graduate of Purdue University with a Bachelor of Science degree in natural resource management focusing on human dimensions and communication. | 