Dr Mark Johnston receives the ISA Award of Merit 2009

Dr Mark Johnston, MBE, FICFor, FIHort received the ISA Award of Merit at the annual International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) Conference held in Providence, Rhodes Island in July 2009.

This award is the highest honour the ISA can bestow and recognises outstanding meritorious service in advancing the principles, ideals and practices if arboriculture.

Dr Johnston is a Research Fellow at Myerscough College, Lancashire, the national centre for education in arboriculture and urban forestry and is the first person in the U.K to receive this award and is one of only four people outside North America to receive it.

He has some thirty five years experience in the arboricultural and forestry industries, including working as a contractor, a Tree Officer in local government and consultant in private practice. He has initiated and managed a number of major urban forestry projects in Britain and Ireland and has worked overseas in the USA and Hong Kong. He holds a PhD in urban forestry from the University of Ulster and his research interests focus on the social science aspects of urban tree management and was awarded an MBE in 2007.

Dr Mark Johnston has visited Barcham a number of times and has lectured at the nursery on two ocassions, should you be interested in a copy of the most of recent lecture material, please contact us via email.

This is an outstanding achievement that gives Dr Johnston the recognition that he deserves as an expert in the arboriculture industry.