David Bloniarz

Primary Interests

Primary work involves research and technology transfer initiatives related to urban natural resource structure, function and value.  The development of new tools and technologies that can be utilized by planners, managers and researchers are the primary focus of the work undertaken by the Urban Natural Resources Institute (UNRI), where Dr. Bloniarz serves as its project director.

Additionally, work includes membership on the i-Tree Development Team, which serves as the leadership mechanism for bringing this public domain urban forest inventory, assessment and reporting software tool to user communities across the world. Also, Dr. Bloniarz is currently coordinating a USDA Forest Service – US Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) National Disaster Resilience Initiative that is developing model programming for the training of ‘citizen scientists’ and ‘community tree stewards’ from low-income urban neighborhoods, in order to more effectively address global climate change at the local level.

Since 2015, Dr. Bloniarz has been working with teams of visiting scholars from Mexico, Peru and Uruguay who are part of a US State Department environmental exchange program, which brings emerging scientists from these countries to the United States to work with researchers here in the United States.