Greg McPherson

Biography

E. Greg McPherson earned a Bachelor’s of General Studies from the University of Michigan in 1975, a Master’s of Landscape Architecture in 1981, and a Ph.D. in Forestry from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in 1986.

After earning his Ph.D., Greg worked as an Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of Arizona’s School of Renewable Resources for 6 years. In 1991, he was appointed lead scientist on the Chicago Urban Forest Climate Project. Greg teaches urban forestry courses at UC Davis and is a faculty member of the Graduate Group in Geography and the Horticulture Graduate Group.

Greg is currently the Director of the Center for Urban Forest Research in Davis, California, where he has been working since 1993. He works primarily on measuring and modeling the benefits and costs of urban forests.