by Mark Roberts | Apr 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
Science and I had started to drift apart. It was all my doing, or lack of doing, as the case was. It wasn’t that I’d intentionally turned my back on her, I’d just been spending more time with someone else, Social Media. While he was demanding, Science patiently...
by Mark Roberts | Feb 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
I recall a television commercial that summed up my understanding of memory loss. Ironically, I remember the ad but not the product it was trying to sell. The ad was a parody of how we remember things. It was set within a person’s brain. In a dimly lit room, a...
by robertsandtrees | Sep 17, 2024 | Soil and soil science, Trees, Uncategorized
Botanical Provenance; Life or death Provenance (prɒv(ə)nəns) noun: the place of origin or earliest known history of something. With provenance comes authenticity, you know what it is, where it came from and where it’s been. Provenance helps museums ensure that the...
by Mark Roberts | Jun 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
For many years now I have been teaching a tree risk assessment course. It’s a structured course with modules and sections laid out in a logical teaching order that is not my own. It’s a great course and I have fun teaching it. Each time I start, I give the class a...
by Mark Roberts | Oct 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
I have just taken on a new job, and the new job has ‘manager’ in the title. I have become the Tree Services Manager for a local utility company. It’s a great position, in a great company and I’m enjoying the role, but what I find interesting is the concept of...
by Mark Roberts | Sep 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
I’m writing this while in an airport in Sweden, not that I’m bragging – much. I am here because the world of conferences has resumed. For the 20 years or so before Covid, I had been attending and presenting at conferences, it was just something that I did and I never...
