Dr. Kim D. Coder is Professor of Tree Biology and Health Care at the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, USA. 

He has degrees from Iowa State University in forestry, tree biology, and forest ecology. 

Dr. Coder was elected world President of the International Society of Arboriculture by fellow professionals. 

In the last decade, he has received three of the tree health care profession's highest world-wide, peer selected awards. 

Dr. Coder is author of over 500 technical publications and articles.  He is an international lecturer and consultant to private citizens, corporations, attorneys, and communities on tree health care, tree biomechanics, abiotic tree stress, risk management, tree anatomy, tree physiology, urban forestry, and community forest ecology.