President 
Urban Forest Diagnostics, LLC 
Naples, New York 

Dr. Chris Luley, author of “Wood Decay Fungi Common to Urban Living Trees in the Northeast and Central US”, specializes in urban forest management, tree diagnostics, and decay assessment. He recently created treerot.com to help arborists identify the common wood decay fungi on living trees and received the R. W. Harris Author’s Award from the International Society of Arboriculture in 2015. In 2022, Dr. Luley received the Brian Skinner Lifetime Achievement Award from the New York State Arborists, ISA Chapter, Inc.