REMINDER - Early Bird Registration for in-person attendees ends August 10, 2022!
(https://www.cofe-formec-iufro2022.org)
Register today and join us October 4-7, 2022 for the COFE-FORMEC-IUFRO Joint Conference, held in Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.A.
All oral and poster presenters are required to register for the Conference no later than August 10, 2022 and attend in-person. If you are a presenter, please ensure to select in-person registration.
Please visit the conference website (https://www.cofe-formec-iufro2022.org<https://cofe-formec2021.org>) for registration and other information about the 2022 COFE-FORMEC-IUFRO Joint Conference.
Best regards,
Woodam Chung and Karl Stampfer
COFE-FORMEC-IUFRO 2022 Chairs
Dear Colleagues,
The University of British Columbia’s, Faculty of Forestry<https://forestry.ubc.ca/> is pleased to announce that applications for their flexible 8-week online Micro-Certificate in Climate Vulnerability & Adaptation<https://forestry.ubc.ca/programs/certificate/climate-micro-certificate/> are now open.
This program is designed for professionals, practitioners, and those who want to expand their interdisciplinary training in the field of climate science application, vulnerability assessment processes, and adaptation in a forestry context.
Please see the program’s details below and feel free to share this invitation with your network or on social media (Twitter<https://twitter.com/ubcforestry/status/1545103562027442178>, LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6950869254510456832>, Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/ubcforestry/photos/a.236267483086809/5263903836989…>).
Best,
Natasha
Natasha Carter (she, her, hers)
Senior Marketing Manager
Faculty of Forestry | Dean's Office
The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Territory
Contact | natasha.carter(a)ubc.ca<mailto:natasha.carter@ubc.ca>
Info | forestry.ubc.ca | ubc.ca
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Online Micro Certificate: Climate Vulnerability & Adaptation
October – December 2022
Register here: https://forestry.ubc.ca/programs/certificate/climate-micro-certificate/
The Faculty of Forestry’s Climate Vulnerability and Adaptation (CVA) Micro-Certificate is a flexible 8-week online program that provides forest professionals with an understanding of climate science, vulnerability assessments, adaptation development, and how it is applied to management and business case adaptation.
Today, government and certification agencies are requiring more accountability in meeting climate change, and green industry standards. This has resulted in a surge in demand for working professionals who wish to advance their knowledge in the field of climate science, assessment and application of climate impacts and adaptation in a forestry context.
Learn how the CVA program brings science and theory into action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCsZEakAnoo&t=40s
Dear Colleagues,
The 2022 COFE-FORMEC-IUFRO Joint Conference Organizing Committee hopes to see many of you in Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.A., 4-7 October, 2022. The Conference Registration is now open! Below is registration information. For registration and other information, please visit the conference website: https://www.cofe-formec-iufro2022.org.
Best regards,
Woodam Chung
Chair of the 2022 COFE-FORMEC-IUFRO Division 3 Conference Organizing Committee
IUFRO Division 3 Coordinator
2022 COFE-FORMEC-IUFRO Registration Now Open
2022 COFE-FORMEC-IUFRO Division 3 Joint Conference
October 4-7, Corvallis, Oregon, U.S.A.
“One Big Family – Shaping Our Future Together!”
We are thrilled to bring researchers, students and professionals from around the world in person this year, after being affected by the COVID-19 pandemic the last two years. The 2022 COFE-FORMEC-IUFRO Division 3 Joint Conference will include over 130 technical presentations on cutting-edge scientific research and innovative practices in forest operations and engineering. The attendees will enjoy face-to-face networking opportunities, evening social events, field trips and opportunities to collaborate and catch up. All presentations will be live-streamed and recorded for remote viewing. REGISTER TODAY!<https://www.cofe-formec-iufro2022.org/>
IN-PERSON
Engage with your colleagues from around the world while enjoying the beauty of Oregon!
All presenters must register for the in-person meeting by August 10.
Full Event Access Includes:
· Plenary session and keynote address
· Over 110 oral presentations
· Over 20 poster presentations
· Conference Proceedings
· Business meetings
· Networking opportunities
· Full-day field trip
· Pre-conference tour to the Oregon Coast (additional fees apply)
· Lunches, award and farewell dinners
· Access to on demand content for 60 days
ONLINE ONLY
For non-presenting online participation only.
Online only registration includes access to the live-stream as well as watching all plenary and technical sessions on demand for 60 days post event.
Online Only Registration Includes:
· Plenary session and keynote address
· Over 110 oral presentations
· Virtual poster library
· Conference Proceedings
· Access to on demand content for 60 days
Registration Fees
Before
Aug. 10
After
Aug. 10
Registration Fees
Standard
$450
$600
Standard
$200
Student/UN Least Developed Country
$225
$300
Student/UN Least Developed Country
$100
Dear Colleagues,
Only three (3) days left to get your abstracts in! The abstract deadline is June 15th.
IUFRO All-Division 3 Meeting will be held jointly with COFE and FORMEC from October 4 to 7, 2022 in Corvallis, Oregon. We invite you to submit abstract for oral and poster presentations and plan to visit Oregon for the Conference in early October. For more information and online abstract submission, please visit: https://www.cofe-formec-iufro2022.org/.
The 2nd IUFRO Division 3 Doctoral Student Conference will be held from September 28 to October 3, 2022 in Oregon prior to the COFE-FORMEC-IUFRO Joint Conference. Please, encourage your PhD students or PhD students you know, to submit abstracts. For more information, please visit: https://www.cofe-formec-iufro2022.org/projects-8.
Best regards,
Woodam Chung
IUFRO Division 3 Coordinator
Chair of COFE/FORMEC/IUFRO Division 3 Joint Conference Organizing Committee
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Protect, restore and sustainably use forests:
building blocks for environmental and economic recovery
Stockholm+50 Associated Event
Monday, 30 May 2022
15.00 -16.15 PM CEST
Register here: https://fao.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NMpI_BzoTsCKa4SHmS1sHg
Forests and trees can play a crucial role in addressing planetary challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss while moving towards sustainable economies and increasing food security.
The State of the World’s Forests 2022 (SOFO2022) provides three pathways to implement this new perspective of making development work with the environment: ‘protect’: measures for halting deforestation; ‘restore’: making land more productive, and ‘use’: investments in building economically viable green value chains that provide resilient livelihoods. SOFO2022 is a contribution to the implementation of SDG 15 (Life on Land) and the United Nations Strategic Plan for Forests and its Global Forest Goals.
Important commitments regarding the world’s forests have been made at the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties (UNFCCC COP26), the United Nations Environment Assembly 5.2 (UNEA 5.2), the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF17), and the Seoul Forest Declaration and the Ministerial Call on Sustainable wood adopted at World Forestry Congress (WFC) 2022.
Join FAO and Members of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests in this discussion on interfaces between protection, restoration and sustainable use of forests as building blocks for a green recovery. Together they can conserve nature, better provide for human well-being, and contribute to inclusive recovery, build resilient and sustainable economies.
Additional information on the State of the World’s Forests<https://www.fao.org/publications/sofo/2022/en/>.
Agenda
Moderation: Alexander Buck, Executive Director, IUFRO
* High-level opening
Maria Helena Semedo, Deputy Director-General, FAO and Chair of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests
* Setting the scene:
Three building blocks: Protection, restoration, and sustainable use of forests
John Parrotta, US Forest Service and President of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO)
* Panel discussion: Linking the interface between the three building blocks
* Restore and use: the potential of agroforestry
Johan Ekeström, Burgapha Agroforestry, Laos
* Use and protect: Wood: a renewable construction material
Petri Heino, Program Director, Wood building program, Ministry of the Environment, Finland
* Protect and restore: ecosystem payments for carbon farming
Gabriela Violeta Soto Nilo, Department for Climate Change and Environmental Services, National Forest Commission, Chile
* Local actors and communities as partners on the ground
Cécile Ndjebet, 2022 CPF Wangari Maathai Forest Champion
* Open Discussion:
Protection, restoration and sustainable use of forests: How can these three building blocks make development work with the environment?
* Closing Remarks: Building forward: Investing into forest-based solutions
Mirey Attalah, Coordinator Nature for Climate branch, UN Environment Programme, UNEP
We are inviting you to share this with interested students.
Check out our website (QR code) and the attached poster for more
information!
With best regards,
Franziska Leonhardt
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Franziska Leonhardt
Students Tutor
Technische Universität Dresden
Faculty of Environmental Sciences
Institute of International Forestry and Forest Products
Chair of Tropical Forestry
01062 Dresden, Germany
Tel.: +49 351 463-31851
Fax.: +49 351 463-31820
Office: Cotta-Bau, Room 0.14
E-Mail:tropentutor@mailbox.tu-dresden.de
Web:http://www.forst.tu-dresden.de/Inter/
Blog:https://tropicalforestry.wordpress.com/
Dear Colleagues,
IUFRO All-Division 3 Meeting will be held jointly with COFE and FORMEC from October 4 to 7, 2022 in Oregon. The organizing committee would like to invite you to submit abstract for oral and poster presentations and plan to visit Oregon for the Conference in early October. For more information and online abstract submission, please visit: https://www.cofe-formec-iufro2022.org.
The 2nd IUFRO Division 3 Doctoral Student Conference will be held from September 28 to October 3, 2022 in Oregon prior to the COFE-FORMEC-IUFRO Joint Conference. Please, encourage your PhD students or PhD students who you know would be interested in a student-focused conference, to submit abstracts. For more information, please visit: https://www.cofe-formec-iufro2022.org/projects-8.
Best regards,
Woodam Chung
IUFRO Division 3 Coordinator
Chair of COFE/FORMEC/IUFRO Division 3 Joint Conference
Dear Div3 IUFRO Colleagues
Greetings from New Zealand. Our School of Forestry, University of Canterbury (New Zealand) has an opening for a Lecturer ('Assistant Professor') in Forest Engineering. If you know of any potential candidates, could you please forward them the following link for further information. It also has the portal for applications.
https://jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/ajid/x4FS7/Lecturer-Senior-Lecture…
Regards,
Rien Visser
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Prof Rien Visser
Director of Studies, Forest Engineering
School of Forestry, University of Canterbury
Christchurch, New Zealand
Phone: +64 (03) 369 5962
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IUFRO Spotlight #91 - Forests and Water
IUFRO Spotlight is an initiative of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations. Its aim is to introduce, in a timely fashion, significant findings in forest research from IUFRO officeholders and member organizations to a worldwide network of decision makers, policy makers and researchers.
IUFRO will encapsulate, and distribute in plain language, brief, topical and policy-relevant highlights of those findings, along with information on where/how to access the full documents. The IUFRO Spotlight findings will be distributed in a periodic series of emails as well as blog postings.
Forests and Water
Science-Policy-Practice Interface for Managing Forest and Water Interactions under a Changing Environment
PDF for download<https://www.iufro.org/fileadmin/material/publications/spotlights/spotlight9…>
[Photo showing a forest behind a lake. Photo: Kalexander73 on Pixabay.]
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Water is fundamental to life on earth. What may not be quite so obvious is that forests are equally vital resources for life on the planet.
And the two - water and forests - are inseparable in the pursuit of a sustainable and sustainably developed world. Therefore, forests and water resources have been identified as essential elements in adaptation to climate change.
The IUFRO-sponsored Forests and Water science-policy forum at the IUFRO World Day provided a platform for scientists, forest managers and decision-makers from the Asia-Oceania region to share insights and experiences about forest and water interactions from different perspectives.
Among the significant challenges discussed by the forum panelists were the increasing competition for water resources, the positive and negative impacts of carbon sequestration due to large scale afforestation and reforestation, climate change-related shifts in rainfall patterns and capacity building requirements among civil groups at various levels to ensure competent engagement in forest and water management.
To address the challenges of competition for water, a range of technical, social and political actions have been suggested - technical advancements such as GIS, remote sensing and climate modelling to better understand the full hydrological cycle, targeted reforestation, better integration of planted forests in the wider landscape, good community engagement and tighter regulatory environments
[Photo showing a lake surrounded by mountains, with forests. Photo: Vandaagevenniet on Pixabay]
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Integrated watershed management was also advocated as a way to deal with the impact of changes in rainfall due to climate change. This varies across the region; in some areas such as Japan there have been record-breaking heavy rains, while in others there have been droughts.
Forests play a crucial role in supplying clean water, help prevent environmental hazards such as soil erosion and flooding as well as ensuring many other ecological functions. Any forest changes - and their interactions with climate - can significantly affect water resources and water-related ecological functions and services.
Therefore, managing forests for water provision is an important priority in various international initiatives (Bonn Challenge, UN SDGs etc.). In addition, there is an active agenda to use reforestation for landscape restoration and to mitigate rising atmospheric carbon dioxide content.
The forum panelists also underlined that communicating and sharing technical advances and policies must be strengthened to ensure that research on forest and water interactions in a changing environment is appropriately addressed.
The opening address for the forum was delivered by IUFRO Vice President Liu Shirong of the Chinese Academy of Forestry.
Keynote presentations were given by Meine van Noordwijk, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Nairobi, Kenya; and by Richard Harper of Murdoch University, Perth, Australia. Richard Harper is also Deputy Coordinator of IUFRO's Task Force on Forests and Water Interactions in a Changing Environment.
The panel discussion featured:
Brenda Baillie, Northland Regional Council, New Zealand;
Mingfang Zhang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China;
Kyoichi Otsuki, Kyushu University, Japan;
Diomedes A. Racelis, University of the Philippines Los Baños, Philippines; and
Hyung Tae Choi, National Institute of Forest Science, Republic of Korea.
The online discussion was one of three science-policy forums organized for IUFRO World Day. (The other two - Forests and Fire and Forest-based Bioeconomy for All - will be covered in separate Spotlights.)
Link to the forums: Science & Policy | IUFRO World Day<https://www.iufroworldday.org/science-policy-forums>
Link to the recording: Forest-Water-Session<https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mvgx0sb8myq2tbr/AAC5IFBrbk2wWD5TO6YcG92ua/Sessio…>
IUFRO World Day was a worldwide digital event that took place on September 28-29 in three time zones around the world. It comprised 24 hours of forest-related research topics, networking, and emerging issues of relevancy for global policy makers. The event was designed to showcase the diversity of the IUFRO network, including IUFRO's scientific units and IUFRO's member organizations, to facilitate networking, and to enhance communication and outreach.
The World Day comprised 79 live sessions from IUFRO Units and Members - including the three forums mentioned above - covering highly relevant topics for policy makers as well as three central IUFRO sessions, one in each time zone. Over 3000 participants from more than 100 countries registered for the event. IUFRO: IUFRO World Day - Digital Forest Science Forum 2021 / Events<https://www.iufro.org/events/iufro-world-day/>
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The findings reported in IUFRO Spotlight are submitted by IUFRO officeholders and member organizations. IUFRO is pleased to highlight and circulate these findings to a broad audience but, in doing so, acts only as a conduit. The quality and accuracy of the reports are the responsibility of the member organization and the authors.
Suggestions for reports and findings that could be promoted through IUFRO Spotlight are encouraged. To be considered, reports should be fresh, have policy implications and be applicable to more than one country. If you would like to have a publication highlighted by Spotlight, contact: Gerda Wolfrum, wolfrum(at)iufro.org<mailto:wolfrum@iufro.org>.
The International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) is the only worldwide organization devoted to forest research and related sciences. Its members are research institutions, universities, and individual scientists as well as decision-making authorities and other stakeholders with a focus on forests and trees.
Visit: https://www.iufro.org/
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IUFRO Spotlight #91, published in December 2021
by IUFRO Headquarters, Marxergasse 2, 1030 Vienna, Austria.
Available for download at: https://www.iufro.org/media/iufro-spotlights/
Contact the editor at office(at)iufro.org<mailto:office@iufro.org> or visit https://www.iufro.org/
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