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XXVI IUFRO World Congress: Call for Abstracts
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XXVI IUFRO World Congress 2024
FORESTS AND SOCIETY TOWARDS 2050
Stockholm, Sweden; 23-29 June 2024
Congress website: https://www.iufro2024.com/
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Dear forest scientists and experts, dear IUFRO members, dear colleagues,
The Congress Scientific Committee (CSC) is pleased to announce that the Call for Abstracts for the XXVI IUFRO Congress in Stockholm, Sweden, 23-29 June 2024, is open and welcomes submissions of abstracts for presentations in sub-plenary, technical and poster sessions.
To submit your abstract, please take the following steps:
1. Consult the list of sessions at Call for Congress Abstract | IUFRO Stockholm 2024 (iufro2024.com)<https://iufro2024.com/call-for-congress-abstract>
2. Submit your abstract at Abstract Submission | IUFRO 2024 <https://www.appinconf.com/kas/Abstract?projectName=iufro2024abstracts>
A form for abstract submission is available online. You will be required to insert a title (max 150 characters), authors with their affiliation (the author presenting the paper or poster at the Congress must be designated as the Presenting Author), and text (max 350 words describing context, specific topic of the study, methods, main results, and conclusions in plain writing). No figures, tables or list of references should be added. Please note that abstracts may be submitted in English only.
Authors must select one of the following options: oral only; poster only; oral or poster. The session organizers will decide on the length of a talk, which could range from 2-3 minutes for flash talks to 15 minutes or more for regular talks. Please note that poster presenters will be given the opportunity to present their work orally (2-3 min) during moderated poster sessions. The Congress will feature only digital poster displays to ensure high visibility for poster presentations. Poster areas will be open and free to visit during the whole Congress.
Authors are limited to a maximum of two abstracts as presenting author, although an individual may be listed as a co-author on several abstracts. Abstracts not associated with one of the sessions in the list may be assigned to a general poster session. Session organizers will review the abstracts for scientific quality, topical significance and relevance to the Congress themes<https://iufro2024.com/iufro-world-congress-2024/forests-and-society-towards…> and to the particular session to which the abstract is submitted, and assign them as oral or poster presentations. You will be informed in due time about the type and length of your presentation.
Candidates for Best Poster Award<https://www.iufro.org/fileadmin/material/discover/honour-bpa.pdf> must apply online during the abstract submission process.
Abstracts will be accepted until 2 June 2023. Authors will be informed if their presentation is accepted by 30 October 2023. In order to remain in the programme, the registration deadline for Presenting Authors of accepted abstracts is 15 January 2024.
We look forward to your active participation in the design of the scientific program for the 2024 IUFRO Congress in Stockholm.
Elena Paoletti
On behalf of the CSC
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Dear Colleagues,
Ecosystem management under changing conditions needs new tools to
insight and forecast forest dynamic and management. Artificial
intelligence is a game changer in forest management. Artificial
intelligence (AI) encompasses a wide range of techniques and frameworks
dating back to the mid twenty century. The use of AI in forestry is
relatively new, especially when compared to the early adoption of AI in
other fields. The irruption of AI spins researchers and practitioners to
unfold the analysis of complex big data. Narrow AI, defined as an AI
system that is specified to perform a limited task, is commonly applied
in biometry (e.g., analysis of forest structure with 3D point cloud
data) but no so common in other ecosystem management domains. Currently,
adequate AI algorithms can be efficiently prototyped due to plenty of
publicly available databases, open-source libraries and the
accessibility to computing platforms.
To insight on this topic and share last works, We, at the University of
Valladolid (Campus at Palencia), are organizing a *Conference on
Artificial Intelligence and Ecosystems Management *You can have update
information at
https://eventos.uva.es/92504/detail/artificial-intelligence-and-ecosystems-…
*Registration is currently open*
This conference is part o the IUFRO unit 4.01.02 - Growth models for
tree and stand simulation, but is open to the whole Division 4 and the
IUFRO community as a whole.
Looking forward to seen you in Palencia
Best regards
--
Prof. Dr. Felipe Bravo
Please note the new email:felipe.bravo@uva.es
Catedrático de Planificación Forestal/Professor of Forest Management
Chair SMART Global Ecosystems | Senior Researcher at iuFOR
Instituto Universitario de Gestión Forestal Sostenible | Sustainable Forest Management Research Institute
Universidad de Valladolid
ETS Ingenierías Agrarias, Universidad de Valladolid
Avda. de Madrid, 44 -- 34004 Palencia
España-Spain
Tl +34 979108424 Fx.+34 979108440
https://smartglobalecosystems.uva.es/ |http://www.research4forestry.eu
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7348-6695 |https://portaldelaciencia.uva.es/investigadores/181874/detalle
Dear colleagues and friends!
We send you our warmest thoughts and best wishes for a wonderful holiday season and a successful, healthy and prosperous New Year 2023!
We take this opportunity and share with you an invitation to the IUFRO 4.05 and 9.05.03 conference that will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia from 25. to 27. September 2023. Scroll to the bottom of this message, read the QR code and save the date!
IUFRO Conference 2023 Organizing Committee
Vasja Leban, Lidija Zadnik Stirn, Anže Japelj, Špela Pezdevšek Malovrh, Janez Krč, Kaja Plevnik, Zala Uhan
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Dear forest colleague,
The IUFRO All-Division 1 and 4 Online Conference CLOSE-TO-NATURE SILVICULTURE: EXPERIMENTS AND MODELLING FOR FORESTRY PRACTICE has been postponed until 7-8-9 February 2023.
Please see the attached second announcement for further information.
On behalf of the organizers
JP
Jens Peter Skovsgaard
Coordinator, IUFRO Div. 1 Silviculture
Please register for the upcoming webinars in October, November, and January (please see information below).
Looking forward to seeing you at one of the webinars!
Bianca
Research Group 4.01.00 Forest Mensuration and Modelling
“Effects of multicollinearity in model-based inference”
Join Dr. Svetlana Saarela, Researcher in the Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA) of the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), on Monday, October 24, 2022, 6:05 – 7:00 am Pacific Daylight Time (PDT), when she talks about the effects of multicollinearity on model-based prediction precision.
To receive the zoom link for the webinar, please register here:
https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ewCQeX7RxzoyWqO
Dr. Tzeng Yih Lam will conclude the "2022 Forest Mensuration and Modelling Chats."
“Field Study on Critical Height Sampling and Its Antithetic Variants”
Join Dr. Tzeng Yih Lam, Associate Professor, School of Forestry and Resource Conservation, National Taiwan University, on Monday, November 28, 2022, 10:05 – 11:00 pm Pacific Standard Time (PST), when he talks about critical height sampling. The webinar is hosted by IUFRO 4.01.00 as part of the 2022 webinar series "Forest Mensuration and Modelling Chats."
To receive the zoom link for the webinar, please register here:
https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2n2aApxlw0PLQhg
Drs. Sheng-I Yang and Thomas Brandeis will kick off the "2023 Forest Mensuration and Modelling Chats."
“Modeling allometric relationships for Caribbean trees using a mixed-effects random forest algorithm”
Join Dr. Sheng-I Yang, Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee, and Dr. Thomas Brandeis, Research Forester with the Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, on Thursday, January 26, 2023, 8:05 – 9:00 am Pacific Standard Time (PST), when they talk about modeling allometric relationships for Caribbean trees.
To receive the zoom link for the webinar, please register here:
https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ahFNEXT1sCNRMyi
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*ISTF session** proposals for IUFRO 2024*
With collaborators, the International Society of Tropical Foresters (ISTF)
is developing session proposals for the XXVI IUFRO World Congress 2024 –
Forests and Society towards 2050, to be held 23-29 June 2024 in Stockholm,
Sweden. https://iufro2024.com/session-proposals/ . The deadline for session
submissions is 13 Oct 2022. If you would like to make a presentation in any
of the sessions below, (you do not need to be 100% sure of attending),
please send the session of interest, and your name, affiliation, country, and
draft title to tropicalforesters(a)gmail.com by 11 Oct 2022. The draft
proposals (still under development) for all these sessions can be obtained
at
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/18UT9WT3JAUXIMq5NOOH4mOqCfJqFO1ES?us…
The
updated proposals will be posted periodically until submission. Suggestions
on the draft proposals are welcome, as well as new co-organizers.
*Sessions to be proposed:*
*Smart Agroforestry Practices for Sustainable Livelihood** (Division 1)*
*Urban trees & green landscapes: Monitoring and management for providing
multiple services** (Division 6) *
*Legacy of the Tropical Timber Foundation and sustainable forestry**
(Division 3)*
*Tropical forest restoration success and how to achieve it** (Division 3)*
*Tropical forestry education: Improving preparation for a challenging
future** (Division 6)*
*Legacy tropical forest data: current status, uses, and securing them**
(Division 4)*
*Research advances towards sustainability for the high-value Meliaceae**
(Division 1) *
*Ecology and management of old growth forests** (Division 8)*
