Davey Resource Group

Aren Dottenwhy is an urban forester and project manager with Davey Resource Group, specializing in urban forestry consulting projects for municipalities, golf courses, cemeteries, and parks. She has directed the street and park tree inventory in Lakeland, Florida and assisted with similar large-scale inventories in Clearwater, Florida, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Charlotte, North Carolina. Inventories in her home state of Indiana include Greendale, Valparaiso, Madison, and Noblesville. Ms. Dottenwhy has gained extensive knowledge of GIS-based data collection and GPS technology, tree and palm identification, and tree risk assessment. She is also proficient at writing urban and community forestry management plans. Accordingly, she has developed a thorough understanding of the role tree inventories play in urban forest management. Ms. Dottenwhy also consults with the Town of Avon, Indiana, providing proper plant health care direction concerning the problems with particular trees at Avon Town Park and Town Hall. Ms. Dottenwhy has also coordinated the collection of reference city data for the development of i-Tree's Street Tree Resource Analysis Tool for Urban forest Managers (STRATUM). STRATUM is a component of the U.S. Forest Service's state-of-the-art, peer reviewed, urban and community forestry analysis and benefits assessment software suite called i-Tree. Ms. Dottenwhy has collected data for this important project in Boise, Idaho, Honolulu, Hawaii, Indianapolis, Indiana, and Orlando, Florida. Ms. Dottenwhy currently conducts and oversees the fieldwork of the Indiana Statewide Urban Sample Inventory (SUSI) in connection with the Indiana DNR Community and Urban Forestry program. The SUSI project assesses the health and state of Indiana's urban forests via a sample statewide inventory and analysis of the findings using i-Tree's STRATUM application. Prior to joining Davey Resource Group, Ms. Dottenwhy's past 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 of 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.


Contact: Aren.Dottenwhy@davey.com