Dear Colleagues in Precision Forestry
This is more or less a final reminder for registration for the upcoming Precision Forestry Symposium, to be held here in Stellenbosch ( just outside Cape Town), South Africa, 5-7 February, 2025.
We have a very interesting programme lined up, starting with a PhD workshop, a day of commercial workshops, and three days of presentations in the beautiful Winelands of the western Cape. Keynote speakers include Div 3 co-coordinator, Prof. Ola Lindroos, a Precision Forestry expert from a large industrial plantation owner, Ms Miranda Wilson, and the Director of School for Data Science and Computational learning here at Stellenbosch University, Prof. Kanshu Rajaratnam.
Commercial workshops will include sessions with amongst others, Remsoft, Microforest, Softree (RoadEng) and Timbeter.
Please take a look at the website for more information on the programme and how to register:
http://www.sun.ac.za/english/faculty/agri/forestry/upcoming-events/pfs-2025
Looking forward to meeting you in Stellenbosch in February !
Kind regards | Ngemibuliso emihle | Vriendelike groete
Bruce Talbot
Associate Professor
Head of Department: Forest and Wood Product Science
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** Welcome to the Division 4 newsletter!
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Greetings!
Several people joined us a few months ago at the IUFRO World Congress in June, and we selected new officers for Division 4. Some of them are pending approval, but you can find a full ist in this newsletter. It also features work from a few of our members. Please continue to share any work or achievements with us for future newsletters.
Thank you,
Bianca Eskelson & Don Hodges
** New Division 4 Officers
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Most of the people on the list of officers for Division 4 for 2024-2029 were approved by the IUFRO Board at the May meeting. Some officers were named after that meeting, and some Working Party names were modified. These changes will become official with Board approval later this month.
** Upcoming Meetings and Events
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WoodCircle Communication & Annual Workshop Meeting of UNECE/FAO Forest Communicators’ Network
* 17-19 December 2024
* Austrian BML, Forest Communicators’ Network, co-organized by IUFRO.
* The meeting will be in English.
* Website (https://www.un.org/esa/forests/index.html)
4.05.00 Annual Meeting
* 14-16 May 2025
* Prague, Czech Republic
* More details to come
** Congratulations!
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IUFRO WP 4.05 member Prof. Dr. Lidija Zadnik Stirn honored with the EURO Distinguished Service Award
Prof. Zadnik Stirn standing with jury chair prof. Dr. Michel Bierlaire, Photo source: EURO
Author: Vasja Leban
We are delighted to announce at the 2024 International Conference of the Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO), Prof. Dr. Lidija Zadnik Stirn received the EURO Distinguished Service Award (EDSA) for lifetime achievement in the European operations research community and profession. The EURO Distinguished Service Award (EDSA) is the highest recognition in EURO of distinguished service to the European operational research community and to the profession of operational research. We are also pleased to say that, as only one EDSA award is given each year, this is a very special occasion.
Prof. Zadnik Stirn has been an honorable member of IUFRO since 1986. She has held several coordinator and deputy positions, including D4 deputy coordinator and WG 4.05 coordinator. Her work focuses on developing optimization models for forest management, environmental decision models, assessment of forest ecosystem services and managerial economics. She has published more than 630 works, 45 of which are scientific articles!
We would like to send our heartfelt congratulations to Prof. Zadnik Stirn on receiving this well-deserved award!
** Recent Work from Division 4
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Technical session at the IUFRO WC 2024:
Our working groups arranged a technical session, T5.8 “Developments in complex remote sensing-assisted forest surveys to support monitoring and assessment of forest ecosystems,” which included three poster sessions and two oral sessions. Altogether, there were more than 40 participants.
There is a special issue arranged in connection to the session in the Silva Fennica journal: https://www.silvafennica.fi/page/special
Manuscript submission opened on July 1 and will close on December 31.
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