Dear Colleagues The IUFRO units 4.04.04, 4.04.06 and 3.04.00 are co-organizing with the University of Washington (Precision Forestry Coop) and the European Union Marie Skodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange Program (http://suforun.ctfc.cat/) the 2017 Symposium on Systems Analysis in Forest Resources (SSAFR) which will be held in Suquamish, Seattle, Washington, USA, August 27-30, 2017 (http://depts.washington.edu/ssafr17/). We welcome abstracts on the following themes: ·Educational tools in operations research and management science ·Multi Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) methods ·Forest fire and invasive pest detection, management & control ·Forest Decision Support Systems – development and use ·OR/MS techniques for forest and landscape planning – strategic, operational and tactical levels ·Forest harvest operations models ·Forest supply chain optimization ·Forest sector modeling: economics and policies ·Bioenergy and biorefinery siting ·Forest transportation & routing models ·Spatially explicit harvest scheduling models ·Remote sensing and geospatial informatics ·Assessment of biodiversity and ecosystem services ·Modeling sustainability ·Modeling uncertainty, hazard and risk in forest management ·Optimal reserve selection models ·Use of geodata and map services in analyzing spatial data ·The carbon balance of the forest sector: projections under management options and climate scenarios Deadline for submission: January 10, 2017 More information at: http://depts.washington.edu/ssafr17/abstract-submission/ We are looking forward to your abstract and to meeting you at the Symposium! Best regards, Jose Borges, Sandor Tóth, Marc McDill, Jordi Garcia-Gonzalo and Woodam Chung -- José G. Borges Professor at the School of Agriculture, University of Lisbon http://www.isa.utl.pt/home/node/369 Coordinator of EMMC Mediterranean Forestry and Natural Resources Management (MEDfOR) http://www.medfor.eu/ Coordinator of IUFRO Group Sustainable forest management scheduling http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-4/40000/40400/40404/