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## Hello there!

I'm an assistant professor in the [Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture](https://agsci.colostate.edu/department/horticulture-and-landscape-architecture/) in the [College of Agricultural Sciences](https://agsci.colostate.edu) at [Colorado State University](https://www.colostate.edu). I received a PhD in environmental conservation, with an emphasis in forest resources and arboriculture, from the [University of Massachusetts Amherst](https://www.umass.edu) in 2020.

I study the trees and forests cultivated amid communities to benefit people. I am interested in the persistence and preservation of large, mature trees facing various disturbances in cities, and I work to identify the natural adaptations and management interventions conferring longevity to individual trees and, at broader scales, limiting mortality rates in urban forests.

I also teach courses on the science and practice of urban tree and forest management, and I work with practitioners, policymakers, and other stakeholders to improve community trees and forests for the health, well being, and safety of nearby people.

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## Selected Projects

#### Peer-reviewed journal articles

**Identifying modal properties of trees with Bayesian inference.** Burcham, D.C. and Au, S.K. 2022. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 316:108804. <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108804>

**After pruning, wind-induced bending moments and vibration decrease more on reduced than raised Senegal mahogany (*Khaya senegalensis*).** Burcham, D.C., Autio, W.R., Modarres-Sadeghi, Y., Kane, B. 2021. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening 61: 127100. <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2021.127100>

**Can sonic tomography predict loss in load-bearing capacity for trees with internal defects? A comparison of sonic tomograms with destructive measurements.** Burcham, D.C., Brazee, N.J., Marra, R.E., Kane, B. 2019. Trees: Structure and Function, 33(3):681-695. <https://doi.org/10.1007/s00468-018-01808-z>.

#### Software packages

[`zloss`](https://github.com/danielburcham/zloss) \| Estimating the reduced strength of decayed trees from sonic tomograms \| 2017\
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