The Impact of Climate Change on Street Trees in California

During his 44 year career at the University of California Dr. McBride taught courses in ecological analysis, forest ecology, urban forestry, and California Landscapes.  For the last 10 years of his teaching career, he concurrently taught urban ecology and hydrology at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain while teaching at Berkeley.  His current research focuses on the impact of climate change on street trees in California.  McBride’s earlier research was concerned with the effects of trees on air pollution in urban areas, transition of wildland forest to urban forests, the influence of biome characteristics on urban forests, and the reconstruction of urban forest destroyed during warfare.  McBride received a B.S. in Forestry from the University of Montana and M.S. (Forestry) and Ph.D. (Botany) degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.  He is a Fellow of the Society of American Foresters, recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award (University of California), Carl Alwin Schenck Award for Distinguished Teaching (Society of American Foresters), Seal of the College of Natural Resources (University of Tehran), Outstanding Educator Award (Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, Member of the Chinese Academy of Forestry, and California Licensed Professional Forester.  McBride authored 319 articles and reports based on his research and 3 books.