Dear All:
It is time for preparing our Division” activity for the IUFRO 2011 Annual Report.
Please discuss this with your Deputies and send me a short write up on:
1- Meetings held during the year or planned for next year (title and location and time).
2- Publication: anything was produced from previous years meetings or this year even if it is in preparation or in press.
3- A brief summary of any outstanding events in your section.
4- A captioned photo of your meeting and/or field trips.
Thanks for your co-operation. As you know, I am not aware of what is happening in your area, so please help me to do my part.
Again, thanks and Happy Holidays,
Yousry El-Kassaby
Division 2, Coordinator
From: El-Kassaby, Yousry
Sent: November-01-11 8:26 AM
To: 'div2(a)lists.iufro.org'
Cc: 'lumz(a)mail.forestry.ac.cn'; Robert Guy; 'Santiago C. Gonzalez-Martinez'; 'Mike Wingfield'
Subject: IUFRO-FORNESSA Africa Congress
Sorry for ending this again. I believe the 1st time did not work.
Yousry
From: El-Kassaby, Yousry
Sent: October-28-11 9:53 AM
To: 'div2(a)lists.iufro.org'
Cc: 'lumz(a)mail.forestry.ac.cn'; Robert Guy; 'Santiago C. Gonzalez-Martinez'; 'Mike Wingfield'
Subject: IUFRO-FORNESSA Africa Congress
Dear IUFRO Division 2 Officeholders:
Please take a good look at the attached “1st Announcement and call of abstracts for the FIRST IUFRO-FORNESSA REGIONAL CONGRESS” and “the Congress poster” that will be held in Nairobi, Kenya (25 – 30, JUNE 2012). I strongly feel that this meeting could offer Division 2 a platform to show our latest research ideas as well as an opportunity to interact on a personal level and discuss/plan Division 2’s future directions.
It is also important to note that the IUFRO Board will also be meeting during this time, so this will provide a rare chance to interact with the Board and share our ideas. Santiago Gonzalez-Martinez and I will act as the contact people for organizing Division 2 session. So, please send this e-mail to your mailing list and encourage members participation. Kenya is a fantastic place to visit and we rarely get the chance to go to Africa.
Please let Santiago and I of your plans and if you intend to attend and contribute an oral or a poster presentation to this meeting. At this stage, we will not restrict ourselves to a particular theme and will endeavour to make it complementary to the Congress theme.
I look forward to hearing from you all and I can’t say how excited I am about this rare opportunity.
Take care,
Yousry El-Kassaby
Division 2 Coordinator
Dear all:
Case van Oosten and I have prepared the following invitation that we
want to forward to all of you.
The Poplar and Willow Genetics Working Party 2.08.04 is pleased to
announce that the Sixth International Poplar Symposium (IPS-VI) will be
organized and hosted in 2014 in Vancouver, British Columbia (B.C.), Canada.
Dates of the symposium and associated activities:
- Sunday the 13th of July 2014 (Registration) to and including Wednesday
the 16th of July 2014.
- Thursday the 17th and Friday the 18th of July 2014 - Field trip in the
Fraser Valley (east of Vancouver).
- Saturday the 19th to and including Monday the 21st or Tuesday the 22nd
of July 2014 - Post-conference Circle Tour in the interior of British
Columbia.
- During the symposium there will be a spouses program.
The proposed conference theme is based on a very relevant question:
/Domestication of Populus and Salix: How far have we come, and how far
do we still have to go?/
The meeting in Vancouver will bring us an excellent opportunity to
compare our views and assemble the "right answer." The answer will
represent the view of the people interested in the science of poplar and
willow genetics, physiology, and pathology. It****will serve as a guide
for the future of poplar and willow cultivation in the world.
Ultimately, the answer should also be a guide for the amelioration of
the environment, industries, and the standard of living of rural
communities wherever poplars and willows are cultivated.
This symposium strives to address these issues and therefore invites
researchers, practitioners, regulatory and policy experts to help define
what the challenges are and where we are going.
The Chair of the organizing committee is Cees ("Case") van Oosten, who
can be reached at:
Cees ("Case") van Oosten, M.Sc.F.
Coordinator - IPS VI Organizing Team
c/o****SilviConsult Woody Crops Technology Inc.
2356 York Crescent
Nanaimo, B.C., V9T 4N3
Canada
Ph: (250) 758-4789 (Res. & Bus.)
silviconsult(a)telus.net <mailto:silviconsult@telus.net>
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Dear All:
HAPPY NEW YEAR.
I would like to thank the very few officers who submitted their Annual Report.
As you all know, my effectiveness as Division 2 Coordinator is merely a function of your cooperation, so please I urge you to submit your 2011 Annual Report. Please send an e-mail saying “there was no activity for my WP”, so I count you in my summary. It would be a great shame if I report no activities from your WP and in fact there is.
Thanks in advance for your cooperation,
Yousry El-Kassaby
Division 2 Coordinator
From: El-Kassaby, Yousry
Sent: December-01-11 10:06 AM
To: div2(a)lists.iufro.org
Cc: lumz(a)mail.forestry.ac.cn; Robert Guy; Santiago C. Gonzalez-Martinez; Mike Wingfield
Subject: Divisin 2 input to 2011 Annual Report
Dear All:
It is time for preparing our Division” activity for the IUFRO 2011 Annual Report.
Please discuss this with your Deputies and send me a short write up on:
1- Meetings held during the year or planned for next year (title and location and time).
2- Publication: anything was produced from previous years meetings or this year even if it is in preparation or in press.
3- A brief summary of any outstanding events in your section.
4- A captioned photo of your meeting and/or field trips.
Thanks for your co-operation. As you know, I am not aware of what is happening in your area, so please help me to do my part.
Again, thanks and Happy Holidays,
Yousry El-Kassaby
Division 2, Coordinator
From: El-Kassaby, Yousry
Sent: November-01-11 8:26 AM
To: 'div2(a)lists.iufro.org'
Cc: 'lumz(a)mail.forestry.ac.cn'; Robert Guy; 'Santiago C. Gonzalez-Martinez'; 'Mike Wingfield'
Subject: IUFRO-FORNESSA Africa Congress
Sorry for ending this again. I believe the 1st time did not work.
Yousry
From: El-Kassaby, Yousry
Sent: October-28-11 9:53 AM
To: 'div2(a)lists.iufro.org'
Cc: 'lumz(a)mail.forestry.ac.cn'; Robert Guy; 'Santiago C. Gonzalez-Martinez'; 'Mike Wingfield'
Subject: IUFRO-FORNESSA Africa Congress
Dear IUFRO Division 2 Officeholders:
Please take a good look at the attached “1st Announcement and call of abstracts for the FIRST IUFRO-FORNESSA REGIONAL CONGRESS” and “the Congress poster” that will be held in Nairobi, Kenya (25 – 30, JUNE 2012). I strongly feel that this meeting could offer Division 2 a platform to show our latest research ideas as well as an opportunity to interact on a personal level and discuss/plan Division 2’s future directions.
It is also important to note that the IUFRO Board will also be meeting during this time, so this will provide a rare chance to interact with the Board and share our ideas. Santiago Gonzalez-Martinez and I will act as the contact people for organizing Division 2 session. So, please send this e-mail to your mailing list and encourage members participation. Kenya is a fantastic place to visit and we rarely get the chance to go to Africa.
Please let Santiago and I of your plans and if you intend to attend and contribute an oral or a poster presentation to this meeting. At this stage, we will not restrict ourselves to a particular theme and will endeavour to make it complementary to the Congress theme.
I look forward to hearing from you all and I can’t say how excited I am about this rare opportunity.
Take care,
Yousry El-Kassaby
Division 2 Coordinator
IUFRO - 9.01.01 - Library, information networks and terminology Call for
papers/contributions: IUFRO and Information: Direction 2012
IUFRO Division 9 Conference
Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina, 8-10 May 2012
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IUFRO and Information: Direction 2012
Information has been central to IUFRO's brief since its foundation in the
nineteenth century, and it has maintained a specialist research group
dealing with information in various forms for well over a century. Following
the latest re-organisation, this role is now held by the new IUFRO group 9.
01, Information and Communication, which brings together the traditional
library, information networks and terminology activities (formerly 6.03)
with communications, public relations, extension and knowledge exchange,
along with the long-existing Latin American and Caribbean information
systems network.
The All-Division 9 conference in Sarajevo, May 9-11 2012, gives us a great
opportunity to explore these newly-unified territories and discover
synergies within them that will benefit both IUFRO's internal information
exchange and the global forest information network. Each subgroup of 9.01
will offer an individual programme, and this is a call for contributions for
the session to be organised by 9.01.01, Library, Information Networks and
Terminology, entitled IUFRO and Information: Direction 2012. For full
details of the Sarajevo conference see http://www.foper.org/iufro_1.html.
Objectives for the session are:
1) To involve the widest possible cross-section of those with an
interest in forest-related information
2) To explore opportunities for cross-sectoral work between the various
sub-sections of 9.01 and across IUFRO generally, to support and enhance
information provision is its widest sense
3) To derive from this a timely and relevant agenda for 9.01.01 to
take us up to the next World Congress in 2014 and beyond.
So we invite your ideas! In which directions should we be heading in 2012?
What are your priorities in managing information today? What solutions have
you found, and what support do you need to help establish new systems and
services - or to reinforce existing systems much valued but now under
threat, perhaps for economic or staffing reasons?
We welcome proposals for conventional papers (15min maximum), and also short
contributions (maximum 5 mins) which can be presented in café-style
discussion sessions. We recognise that funding to attend conferences is
often difficult to come by these days, particularly in the library and
information sector, and many who would be interested may be unable to
attend. We welcome contributions from you too! and strongly encourage you to
send in short pieces which can be discussed by conference participants. This
can be in any form you like, e.g. PowerPoint, video (e.g. YouTube), social
media (Twitter etc), e-mail etc. We are not looking for sophisticated or
time-consuming presentation, but for ideas : suggestions for activities
where we as a group of information professionals can make a difference to
you, whether you are an information provider or user, or both.
Traditionally, our group has been active in the areas of networking,
classification and terminology, and in supporting the Global Forest
Information Service (GFIS); and more recently in the developing areas of
data management/archiving, mentoring, training & support and evidence-based
forestry. Ideas for further development in those areas are welcome, but do
not limit yourselves to them:
information is key to every area of human activity so nothing is barred!
Please send your suggestions in not more than 450 words, together with full
name of authors, affiliations, and an e-mail address by February 20, 2012,
to
gillian.petrokofsky(a)plants.ox.ac.uk<mailto:gillian.petrokofsky@plants.ox.ac.
uk>.
Please share this call for papers widely.
Many thanks!
_______________________________________________
posted on behalf of 9.01.01 Coordinator Gillian Petrokofsky by Brigitte
Burger, IUFRO Headquarters
ANNOUNCING: "Breeding for Value in a Changing World"
4 - 7 February 2013 in Jacksonville, Florida - USA
Sponsored by IUFRO Working Group 2.02.20
A 4-day conference in the United States focusing on the Breeding and Genetic
Resources of Southern US and Mexican Pines. Please save the date and
consider submitting an abstract to present your research at this conference.
Conference topics will include:
* Quantitative Genetics and Breeding Strategies
* Molecular Genetics
* Genomic Selection & Pedigree Reconstruction
* Wood Properties
* Hybrid Breeding and Testing
* Somatic Embryogenesis & Clonal Forestry
* Reproductive Biology & Seed Orchard Management
* Population Genetics and Abiotic Stress Resistance
* Disease and Pest Resistance
IMPORTANT WEB PAGE LINKS
Conference home page - http://www.ncsu-feop.org/IUFRO/
Call for papers - http://www.ncsu-feop.org/IUFRO/callforpapers.html
IUFRO Calendar -
http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-2/20000/20200/20220/activiti
es/
CONFERENCE PLANNING COMMITTEE CONTACTS
Dr. William Dvorak - dvorak(a)ncsu.edu
Dr. Gary Hodge - grh(a)ncsu.edu
Conference Registrar - forestry_outreach(a)ncsu.edu
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Conference Logistics Provided by
Forestry and Environmental Outreach Program
North Carolina State University
Campus Box 8008
Raleigh, NC 27695-8008
Phone: 919-515-9563
Fax: 919-515-6883
Internet: www.ncsu-feop.org
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posted on behalf of Kelley McCarter by Brigitte Burger, IUFRO Headquarters
Dear colleagues,
please find the second announcement for the conference “Forests for
People”, by following this link
http://www.iufro.org/download/file/7996/5124/tf-forests-people-alpbach12-2n…
Full information about the conference (including keynote speakers and
field trips) can be found at
ffp2012.boku.ac.at
The conference will take place May 22nd-24th 2012 in
Alpbach/Tyrol/Austria. It would be appropriate that you present findings
from the field of physiology and genetics, such as
· acceptance of new development
· communication strategies
· teaching materials to enhance the use and application of new
options
· role of physiology and genetics for local income, health and
rural development.
You may also consider organizing a coordinated session.
We are looking forward to meeting you in Alpbach.
Best regards,
Ulrike Pröbstl
Univ. Prof. Dr. Ulrike Pröbstl
Conference organizer
and IUFRO Board Member
Institute of Landscape Development, Recreation and Conservation
Planning
University of Natural Resuorces and Life Sciences
Peter-Jordan-Straße 82
1190 Vienna, Austria
Website: ffp2012.boku.ac.at
E-Mail: ffp2012(a)boku.ac.at
Dear IUFRO Colleagues,
Dear Division 1 - 9 Mailing List Members,
The Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, is offering a Wood
Professorship of Forest Science
The Wood Professorship of Forest Science is a newly established post at the
Department of Plant Sciences and its purpose is to develop a research
initiative that will generate the fundamental science necessary to underpin
evidence-based forest policy developments. This professorship provides an
exciting opportunity for an individual with outstanding academic
achievements and vision to develop a world-class research programme at the
University of Oxford. The department enjoys an internationally leading
position in research and teaching in plant sciences, with research groups
focusing on biochemistry and systems biology, cell and developmental
biology, ecology, evolution and systematics. The Professor will provide
academic leadership in Forest Science in the Department of Plant Sciences
and throughout the University. He/she is expected to contribute to promoting
the 'Trees for Tomorrow' initiative within the Plants for the 21st Century
(P21C) Institute.
Applications should be sent by email to Dr Gwen Booth, Personnel Officer,
Senior Appointments at professorships(a)admin.ox.ac.uk.
The deadline for applications is Monday 16 January 2012.
Detailed information is available at
http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/global/wwwoxacuk/localsites/currentvacancies/furth
erparticularsforprofessorships/Wood_Professorship_of_Forest_Science.pdf
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Brigitte Burger - Web Management
International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO)
IUFRO Headquarters - Secretariat
Mariabrunn (BFW), Hauptstrasse 7 │ A-1140 Vienna, Austria
Tel.: +43-1-877 0151-14 │ Fax: +43-1-877 0151-50
Website: <http://www.iufro.org/> http://www.iufro.org │ Email:
<mailto:burger@iufro.org> burger(a)iufro.org
Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce that registration for the bi-annual meeting of the
IUFRO RG 7.01 "Impacts of Air Pollution and Climate Change on Forest
Ecosystems" has just been opened. The conference under a title "Biological
Reactions of Forests to Climate Change and Air Pollution" is organized in
collaboration with the North American Air Pollution Workshop, COST Action FP
0903, ENVeurope and ICP Integrated Monitoring and will be held in Kaunas,
Lithuania, on May 18-26, 2012.
Please register soon because regular registration closes on February 1,
2012.
A link to the Conference Web site is: http://www.iufro-at-lzuu.lt/
Sincerely,
Andrzej Bytnerowicz, RG. 7.01 Coordinator
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Senior Scientist
USDA Forest Service
Pacific Southwest Research Station
4955 Canyon Crest Drive
Riverside, CA 92507, USA
tel. 951-680-1562
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posted on behalf of A Bytnerowicz by Brigitte Burger, IUFRO Headquarters
*The deadline for abstracts has been extended to December 31, 2011 *for the
first meeting of the IUFRO working party 1.02.04 – Sustainable management
and genetic resources in Meliaceae. This meeting will be held on Monday and
Tuesday, June 25 and 26, 2012 in Nairobi, Kenya. The purpose of the
meeting is to share the latest in research and applications for a global
perspective on solutions for the tropical timber species of the Meliaceae
(subfamily Swietenoideae). This meeting will be held in conjunction with
the IUFRO-FORNESSA Regional Congress in Africa (IUFRO = International Union
of Forest Research Organizations; FORNESSA = Forestry Research Network of
Sub-Saharan Africa). For more information, see “Upcoming IUFRO Meetings”
at:
http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-1/10000/10200/10204/activit…
Dear colleagues,
In case you haven’t been informed about the "Seed Orchard and Breeding
Theory Conference" that will be held in Isparta, Turkey, May 21-25
2012, please follow the link below for more information and distribute
the message to colleagues that might be interested. The deadline for
abstracts is the 12th of December 2011.
http://atabeymyo.sdu.edu.tr/seedconference/index.html
So,if you are interested in making an oral or written presentation in
the Conference, please contact the conference secretary Dr.Nebi Bilir
(nebilir(a)hotmail.com or nebibilir@.sdu.edu.tr) as soon as possible.
Best regards,
Dr. Evi Alizoti
IUFRO WG 2.02.13 Deputy Coordinator
____________________________________
Dr. Evi Alizoti, Assistant Professor
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
School of Forestry and Natural Environment
Laboratory of Forest Genetics and Tree Improvement
54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Phone: +302310992769
Mobile: +306944985272
E-mail: alizotp(a)for.auth.gr
