Seminar Dates: November 13, 2025 1:15 PM
Seminar Cost: $45.00 Register Now
Seminar Description:
Healthy mature trees are vital to the ecosystem, improve the health and the residents’ quality of life.
But healthy trees require healthy soils. Unfortunately, the building process and the usage of a site destroys the soil microbiome with compaction, pollution, pesticides, and depletion of organic matter. Soil Genomics, like a DNA test, provides a better understanding of soil microbial communities and their symbiotic relationship with trees. This knowledge can help to restore healthy soils for trees including promoting beneficial microorganisms and improving soil structure and nutrient availability. Healthy soils also increase carbon sequestration and mitigate climate change.
Learning Objectives:
1. Learn the benefits of healthy trees and the importance of nurturing them to maturity and maintaining the them healthy.
2. Understanding the basics of soil genomics and the factors that affect the soil microbiome lead us to treat soils differently.
3. Practice and support technologies that promote and boost the soil microbiome and the underground community that includes microbials, insects, organic matter, water, and air.
Wei Zhang
Wei Zhang is the VP of Research and Development at Zynnovation LLC, aka TreeDiaper. He is also the Education Coordinator of The Institute of Soil Genomics for Healthy Community Forests. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Engineering from Virginia Tech. He has been doing research & development for the green industry for 15 years. His research areas include watering solutions for landscape plants, relationship of soil/water/air, plant protection against stresses like drought and road salt. His work also provides novel solutions to green stormwater infrastructures, for which plants are used for the treatment of pollutants in stormwater. He has more than 40+ peer-reviewed scientific journal articles, one monograph and 200+ conference presentations. He has been a frequent speaker on Arboriculture, Landscape Architecture, Urban Forestry, Stormwater Green Infrastructure, and related conferences and symposiums. He is known as a scientist, educator and public speaker. Dr. Zhang is an ASLA approved LA CES provider.
