Dear Colleagues,
IUFRO group 4.01.06 - Quantitative Ecology offers a two-days hands-on workshop on Individual/Agent Based Modelling for beginners and more advanced modellers to share experience and tips & tricks thus interfacing ecology, statistics and programming. The event will take place on 20/21 August 2018 at Umeå (Sweden).
Agent/Individual-based modelling (ABM, IBM) techniques have emerged as crucial tools for analysing and understanding self-organisation processes in various ecosystems as well as in social sciences. ABM/IBM is a methodology for relating the micro-level behaviour to the macro- or system-level behaviour and shares certain similarities with game theory. An important part of individual-based models are interaction processes between individuals or agents, e.g. trees, humans or animals.
More information can be found in the attached flyer and on https://www.slu.se/statistics/workshops. Please distribute this information widely.
Sincerely,
Arne Pommerening
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Arne Pommerening, PhD (Göttingen), Habilitation (Vienna)
Professor in Mathematical Statistics Applied to Forest Sciences
Director of the Centre for Statistics (Statistics@SLU)
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SLU
Faculty of Forest Sciences Department of Forest Resource Management
Skogsmarksgränd
SE-901 83
Umeå
Sweden
http://www.slu.se/mat-stat-foresthttp://www.pommerening.org<http://www.pommerening.org/>
http://blogg.slu.se/forest-biometricshttp://www.slu.se/centreforstatistics
New publication: Do large trees tend towards high species mingling?<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1574954117302297>
Dear colleagues,
On behalf of the scientific committee and conference organizers, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Forestry and IUFRO Unit 4.05.00 – Managerial economics and accounting organising International Conference: SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT FOR THE FUTURE - the role of managerial economics and accounting. The conference will take place in Zagreb, Croatia, May 10-12, 2018.
The post-conference tour will be in the National park Plitvička jezera.
Important dates:
Registration and submission of extended abstract: February 15th 2018
Notice on accepted abstracts: February 28th 2018
Transfer of registration fee: April 1st 2018
Submission of full text for the SEEFOR Journal: June 30th 2018
Please, find info on the upcoming conference in the attached leaflet, on the IUFRO 4.05. website, and abstract template on http://www.sumins.hr/iufro-form/
Please consider your participation and hope to see you in Zagreb.
With best regards
Associate Professor Stjepan Posavec, Ph. D.
Department of Forest Inventory and Management
Forest Economics
University of Zagreb - Faculty of Forestry
Svetošimunska 25, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Phone: +385 1 235 2455,
E-mail: sposavec(a)sumfak.hr <mailto:sposavec@sumfak.hr>
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Dear Colleagues,
IUFRO’s 125th Anniversary Congress aimed to provide a platform for the exchange of scientific knowledge and a dialogue across the full range of forest-related topics and scientific disciplines. This call for a special issue of Open Agriculture is focused on the topics covered in a number of sessions organized by Working Group 4.05.00 and Division 4. Manuscripts of papers presented at the Freiburg conference or other manuscripts related to these topics are welcome.
More information regarding the Special Issue and other details are provided at: https://www.degruyter.com/page/1650
The deadline for submission is February 28, 2018.
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
Best regards,
Prof. Donald Grebner, Mississippi State University, College of Forest Resources, USA dlg26(a)msstate.edu<mailto:dlg26@msstate.edu>
Prof. Donald Hodges, University of Tennessee, Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries, USA dhodges2(a)utk.edu<mailto:dhodges2@utk.edu>
Prof. Ludek Sisak, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech Republic sisak(a)fld.czu.cz<mailto:sisak@fld.czu.cz>
Mariana Melnykovych, Institute of Ecological Economics and Management, Ukrainian National Forestry University, Ukrainemariana.melnykovych(a)ukr.net<mailto:mariana.melnykovych@ukr.net>
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Donald G. Hodges, Ph.D., CF
James R. Cox Professor of Forest Economics and Policy
Director, Natural Resource Policy Center
Coordinator, IUFRO 4.05.02 Working Group
University of Tennessee
Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries
274 Ellington Plant Sciences Building
2431 Joe Johnson Drive
Knoxville, TN 37996-4563
dhodges2(a)utk.edu<mailto:dhodges2@utk.edu>
865-974-2706
Cell: 865-850-3469
TERRAenVISION Environmental Issues Today: Scientific Solutions for Societal Issues
Our Planet suffers from human activities. As scientists, we know more and more about our environment, about processes, rates of change, new threats and risks. However, the challenges seem to grow quicker than the solutions we can create.
This conference aims to focus on the scientific research towards finding solutions for the societal issues of our time. TERRAenVISION promotes interdisciplinary collaboration and networking. To bring scientists and stakeholders that have the same goal, work on the same societal issue, but have different scientific backgrounds. By bringing the people and their knowledge together, we may be able to take the steps towards solutions that can bring our society to a more sustainable situation. In this conference, we want to link to International policies such as the sustainable Development Goals, the UN Climate conventions, CAP and COP.
Environmental issues we would like to highlight and discuss:
This conference is framed around themes. Each theme is kicked off by two plenary keynote speeches of 20 min, followed by a discussion. After the plenary session, a range of different parallel sessions will be organised.
We also want to stress that the conference is not only for scientists, but also warmly would like to invite people from outside the scientific world.
The themes:
1. Climate change: Mitigation and Adaptation
2. Water Resources: Quality and Quantity
3. Land Degradation and Restoration
4. Nature based solutions
5. Fire in the earth system, effects and prevention
6. Ecosystem services and Health
7. Science interface: with policy and public
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS AND REGISTRATION
https://terraenvision2018.eu/abstract-submission/https://terraenvision2018.eu/registration/
DEADLINE FOR ORAL CONTRIBUTIONS: 15th OF DECEMBER
DEADLINE FOR POSTER ABSTRACTS: 22nd OF JANUARY
(CHECK ALSO OUR Pre-conference Excursion January 25th-28th 2018)
Please visit the website for more information: www.terraenvision2018.eu
Saskia Keesstra
TERRAenVISION Conference
<mailto:envision.one18@gmail.com> envision.one18(a)gmail.com
www.terraenvision2018.eu
29 January-2 February 2018
Barcelona, Spain
Dear Division 4,
We are honored to organise the 3rd biannual conference of WG 4.4.7 "Risk
Analysis" next year in Spain (Salsona/Barcelona).
You are all welcome to join us for exchange of knowledge and methodology
for risk analysis and managment. The link to the Add. is:
http://suforun.ctfc.cat/june-2018-conference-solsona-and-barcelona-spain/
Please do not hesitate to ask me for any assistance or information if
you wish!
Best Regarsd!
Rasoul Yousefpour
Coordinator of IUFRO 4.4.7
Dear colleagues,
I am looking for a smart young scholar to join my research group as a PhD student working on questions from the field of forest economics.
We offer the successful candidate a 4-year scholarship to pursue excellent research at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in close collaboration with Natural Resources Canada - Canadian Forest Service (NRCan-CFS). The project offers the unique opportunity to work on a large-scale research project with other project partners, such as Université Laval and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). Details are attached.
Deadline for applications is January 2nd 2018.
Kindly forward the invitation for applications to suitable candidates, as well as colleagues who might not be on this mailing list.
Thank you and best wishes
Dr Verena C Griess
Asst Prof Forest Management | Dept of Forest Resources Management
Faculty of Forestry | University of British Columbia
2424 Main Mall | Vancouver, BC | CANADA V6T 1Z4
P 604 827-0634 | F 604 822-9106
Visit my Faculty Profile<http://profiles.forestry.ubc.ca/person/verena-griess-2/>
Visit the profile of IUFRO Working Group 4.04.02<http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-4/40000/40400/40402/>: Planning and economics of fast-growing plantation forests
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