Dear colleagues,
we are very pleased to announce that IUFRO supports the 11th European
Conference on Wood Modification that will be held in Firenze (Italy) the
15-16 of April 2024.
The deadline to submit the abstracts is the 15 October 23.59 CET. The
deadline has already been extended and no further extensions are planned.
Those who are interested to submit an abstract can find the guidelines at
the following link:
https://www.dagri.unifi.it/vp-915-abstracts-and-papers-submission.html
General information on the conference can be found at the conference
website:
http://ecwm11.unifi.it
Do not hesitate to ask information to giacomo.goli(a)unifi.it.
Looking forward to meeting you in Firenze.
Giacomo Goli
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Giacomo Goli
Professore Associato di Tecnologia del Legno e Utilizzazioni Forestali
DAGRI - Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Agrarie, Alimentari,
Ambientali e Forestali
Università degli Studi di Firenze
Associate professor of Wood Technology
Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry
University of Florence
Via S. Bonaventura, 13
50145 Firenze
P.IVA/Cod.Fis. 01279680480
Phone: +39 0552755608
Mobile: +39 3290656674
e-mail: giacomo.goli(a)unifi.it
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Online Symposium: "Fuelwood in the tropics: From cooking stoves to deforestation" Session #2 - 10 Oct 2023
The International Society of Tropical Foresters (ISTF) and the International Forestry Working Group of the Society of American Foresters (IFWG-SAF) are offering the second session of the online symposium "Fuelwood in the tropics: From cooking stoves to deforestation" on Tuesday 10 October 2023 at 10 EDT – 12 EDT (New York City Local Time | UTC – 4). Much of the tropics relies on fuelwood for cooking. More information is posted at https://tropicalforesters.org/blog/2023/09/22/online-symposium-fuelwood-in-… . Find your time zone at https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html. Register for the session at https://forms.gle/d58cv1aGxnxChtLh9.
Questions? Contact tropicalforesters(a)gmail.com<mailto:tropicalforesters@gmail.com>
Information on Session #1 is at https://tropicalforesters.org/online-symposium-fuelwood-in-the-tropics-from… . The presentation videos from Session #1 are available at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwGsom_l27zq4vUOEqEvPajLMeFuK2BfY . The symposium videos from Session #2 will also be posted on the ISTF YouTube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC64ds-AZiXfNPtJ-gX4Jw1w
Symposium schedule:
a. Introduction to the symposium series. Sheila Ward, ISTF (2 min)
b. Intro to speakers and topic. Puneet Dwivedi, Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, USA & IFWG-SAF (5 min)
c. Efficient Fuelwood Use as a Strategy to Reduce Household Pressure on Natural Forests of the Guinea Savannah Zone of Nigeria. Omotayo Idris Ajao, University of Ilorin and Save Sahara Network, Nigeria. (15 min)
d. Charcoal Movements inside Zambian Cities: From Peri-urban Markets to Low and Medium Density Suburbs. Nixon Chisonga, School of Social Sciences, Mulungushi University, Zambia (15 min))
e. Potential of Carbonized Briquettes to Enhance Sustainability in Woodfuel Supply in Sub-Saharan Africa. Timothy Namaswa, School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and Kenya Forestry Research Institute, Kenya (15 min)
f. The KLIMA project: Firewood for reforestation in Haiti. Freny Alcinat, Centre d’enseignement et de coopération internationale, Haiti and Catherine Ruest Belanger, Viridis Terra International, Canada (15 min)
g. Open Discussion (Moderators Dwivedi / Ward – 50 min)
Dear colleagues, as the beautiful fall season starts in many parts of the world, I’d like to invite you to join the following webinar event co-organized by the Forest Products Society (FPS) and IUFRO D5.01 Wood & Fiber Quality Group. The webinar will be held on October 10, 2023 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada), through Zoom. Online registration (https://forestprod.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1784697&group=) is open now.
Our guest speaker is Dr. Geoffrey Downes, the Director and Senior Researcher of Forest Quality Pty. Ltd. Forest Quality, based in Tasmania, Australia. He will present the latest research and development on Resistance Drilling of Standing Trees for Commercial Inventory of Plantation Wood Quality (see attached flyer for detail information). Geoff has a focus on developing and operationalizing non-destructive wood quality assessment technology in commercial plantations. He has been involved in studying the causes of variability in wood properties for 35 years, with a focus on the physiology of wood formation as affected by environment. He has had some involvement with the application of SilviScan to forestry since starting with CSIRO in 1992. This involved using these high-resolution wood property measurements, together with tree growth (dendrometer) monitoring, to investigate links between environment, growth and sub-annual wood variability. Since 2015, the focus has been on applying resistance drilling to the estimation of wood basic density in standing trees, to support commercial applications.
FPS & IUFRO D5.01 Joint Webinar
Resistance Drilling of Standing Trees for Commercial Inventory of Plantation Wood Quality
─ A Web Platform for Online Processing of Resi Traces
Guest Speaker: Dr. Geoffrey M. Downes
When: October 10, 2023 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Moderators: Xiping Wang (Xiping.wang(a)usda.gov<mailto:Xiping.wang@usda.gov>)
Brunela Pollastrelli Rodrigues (brunelr(a)clemson.edu<mailto:brunelr@clemson.edu>)
Sponsors: Forest Products Society (FPS) – NDE and Wood Quality TIGs
IUFRO D5.01 Wood & Fiber Quality Group
Registration Link: https://forestprod.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1784697&group=
Look forward to meeting you virtually on October 10, 2023
Xiping
Coordinator, IUFRO D5.01 Wood & Fiber Quality
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Xiping Wang, PhD
Research Forest Products Technologist
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CA22155 Action establishes a network for the past, present and future of use of major non-timber forest raw materials and products in Europe. Whilst it will focus on forest by-products mainly Potash Tar Resin Charcoal (PoTaRCh) - as representatives of traditional forest exploitation heritage, it will touch upon other forest by-products (tannins, pitches).
The goal of CA22155 Action is to identify and assess production changes and their social and environmental impacts on sustainable development, and based on their heritage, to draw lessons for the future.
The CA22155 Action will support researchers, stakeholders (museums, state forests, associations, etc.) and tradition bearers who know and are interested in these products in their research, discovery, use in production, education and heritage promotion.
If you are interested in joining this Action (the description of this action CA22155 you can find on https://link.edgepilot.com/s/06a629b3/X6GYqsbAN0ylXvhpqJafHA?u=https://www.… , panel on the right under the MoU name), you can express your intent on the website dedicated to working groups: https://link.edgepilot.com/s/3bf0aabe/6AHohvLtUU24YibU2cmNeQ?u=https://e-se….
Here you will be asked to choose the working group(s) you are most interested in. The first management committee meeting will take place 3rd October (only for a Committee Members). There they will go through the list of interested parties for the working groups and register them. You will then receive information about meetings, etc. via email.
Note that if you do not yet have a COST profile, the link above will first direct you to a registration page, which you will have to fill out.
If your country has not yet represented for this action (until now we have 35 representatives from 24 countries: Austria (2), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Belgium (1) Switzerland (1), Czech republic (2), Denmark (1), Greece (2), Spain (1), Finland (2), Croatia (1), Italy (2), Luxembourg (1), Norway (2), Poland (2), Portugal (1), Romania (2), Serbia (1), Sweden (2), Slovakia (2), Turkey (2), United Kingdom (1) - each country can have 2 representatives, you can propose yourself through a national coordinator (https://link.edgepilot.com/s/aa1ca7b6/iYqzb5RCVEmil4OnQZIvEw?u=https://www.…)
Cost Actions are an excellent way to get to know other researchers and practitioners.
