Dear IUFRO members,
The Final Conference of PARAmount a project funded by the Alpine Space
Programme of the European Union will be held on 23rd April 2012 at
Grenoble in parallel with the 12th Congress of INTERPRAEVENT (Grenoble, 23
26 April 2012).
The Final Conference is designed to bring together experts, researchers,
policy and decision makers, practitioners from various disciplines as well
as concerned stakeholders for an interdisciplinary, transnational exchange
of views on the further development of strategies and technologies for the
management of natural hazards threatening transport infrastructure and to
present the results of the project concerning the
Assessment of the vulnerability of transport infrastructure to natural
hazards
Improvement of the efficiency of measures necessary to protect transport
infrastructure against natural hazards and to increase its reliability and
security
Advancement of Decision analysis and support systems for an effective
management of transport infrastructure threatened by natural risks
Development of new concepts and approaches for assessing and monitoring
natural risks.
The objective of the concluding round table discussion will be to elaborate
recommendations for overcoming the identified barriers that might impede the
adoption of the developed approaches and concepts as well as to ensure a
successful knowledge transfer.
At the conference website
http://www.paramount-project.eu/index.php?option=com_content
<http://www.paramount-project.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&i
d=40&Itemid=45&6c31091fa105024792e742d3d29e1931=b46a42ace97b791bf5be92eabeab
4fbe>
&view=article&id=40&Itemid=45&6c31091fa105024792e742d3d29e1931=b46a42ace97b7
91bf5be92eabeab4fbe, you will find the Second Announcement for the Final
Conference of the PARAmount project including the detailed program. The
conference languages will be English, French and German. Interpretation will
be provided. It would facilitate the task of the organizers, if those who
wish to attend the Final Conference would register as soon as possible by
sending an email to the following address: final.conference@paramount-
<mailto:final.conference@paramount-project.eu> project.eu.
If you have any questions regarding the final conference, please do not
hesitate to contact any of the responsible persons listed below.
Kind regards
Marc Adams
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Contact person project communication manager:
Günter Siegel
BMLFUW - Abteilung Forstliche Raumplanung, Waldschutz und
Landschaftsentwicklung
Tel: + 43 (0)1 711 00 7125 <tel:%2B%2043%20%280%291%20711%2000%207125>
E-Mail: guenter.siegel@ <mailto:guenter.siegel@lebensministerium.at>
lebensministerium.at
Contact person project management:
Gudrun Schrömmer
PRISMA solutions
Telefon: +43(0)2236 47975 36 <tel:%2B43%280%292236%2047975%2036>
E-Mail: gudrun.schroemmer@prisma-
<mailto:gudrun.schroemmer@prisma-solutions.at> solutions.at
Contact person BFW:
Marc Adams
Department of Natural Hazards, BFW
Tel.: <tel:%2B43%20%280%29512%20573933%205177> +43 (0)512 573933 5177
E-Mail: <mailto:marc.adams@uibk.ac.at> marc.adams(a)uibk.ac.at
Dear Colleagues!
We invite you to take part in the International Conference RR 2012:
"Renewable Forest Resources: innovative development in forestry" that
belongs to a conference series on Renewable Resources.
Forestry is constantly adapting to new needs of the changing world. The
range of demands put on forest sector by society has considerably increased
in recent years. These changes require innovative developments not only in
the field of technologies and business, but also on policy and management
level, that will create the environment where innovations can take place.
The aim of the conference is the discussion of various aspects of use of
forest resources and the presentation of Russian and foreign experience in
the introduction of innovative methods of forest management, reforestation
and forest use. Representatives of authorities, scientific-educational and
business community of Russia and other countries are invited to participate
in the plenary session and round tables.
More detailed information can be find at : http://onlinereg.ru/RR2012/
Yours
Maxim
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Maxim Chubinsky
department of general ecology, physiology of plants and wood science,
executive director of ICFFI, director of studies of FORPEC program, contact
person of CBU and EUROFORESTER in FTA, Vice-dean of Forestry Faculty,
Institutsky per. 5, St. Petersburg, RUSSIA, 194021
+7 911 026 10 24
+7 812 670 92 60
+7 812 670 93 63
Dear List Members:
Linnaeus University is advertising a position for postgraduate study in
forest products. With the support of Swedish board manufacturers, Linnaeus
University has established a new field of research which focuses on
developing new environment-friendly board materials.
Deadline: 10 April 2012
For details, please visit:
<http://www.iufro.org/download/file/8488/95/nb-linnaeus-postgraduate-forest-
products_pdf/>
http://www.iufro.org/download/file/8488/95/nb-linnaeus-postgraduate-forest-p
roducts_pdf/
Please distribute as appropriate,
Best regards
Brigitte Burger
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Mag. Brigitte Burger - Web Management
International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO)
IUFRO Headquarters - Secretariat
-----Original Message-----
From: RR2012 [mailto:Rr2012@onlinereg.ru]
Sent: Tuesday, 6 March 2012 9:50 p.m.
Subject: International Conference "Renewable Forest Resources: innovative
development in forestry" 2012
Dear Colleagues!
We invite you to take part in the International Conference RR 2012:
"Renewable Forest Resources: innovative development in forestry" that
belongs to a conference series on Renewable Resources. The conference will
take place on June 6-8, 2012 in Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
1. We would like to inform you that the List of Program Committee is
available at the conference website.
2. You can find the new instructions for poster and requirements for
abstract submission on the conference website.
3. The conference venue will be Saint-Petersburg State Forest Technical
University (SPb FTU). You can see the building plans at the conference
web-site: http://onlinereg.ru/RR2012
Organizing Committee RR 2012
P.S.: The conference is co-sponsored by IUFRO Divisions 1, 4 and 5.
Dear IUFRO-List members,
The Department of Forest and Wood Science of Stellenbosch University, South
Africa searches a candidate to fill a position in the "Green Landscapes"
project as soon as possible. An interesting work in a multi-disciplinary
team in the winelands of South Africa and a comparative remuneration are
granted.
Please refer to the pdf file at
http://www.iufro.org/download/file/8487/95/nb-stellenbosch-postdoc-green-lan
dscapes_pdf/ for further information.
Apologies if you may have received the advert from another source.
Best regards,
Thomas Seifert
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Prof. Dr. Thomas Seifert
Departmental Chair
Department of Forest and Wood Science
Faculty of AgriSciences
Stellenbosch University
Private Bag X1
7602 Matieland
++27 021 808 3295
seifert(a)sun.ac.za
WDC 2012
12th INTERNATIONAL IUFRO WOOD DRYING CONFERENCE
July 30 to August 03
Belém, Pará, Brazil
http://www.wdc2012.com/site/
Third Announcement
Dear Colleagues
On behalf of the IUFRO Wood Drying Working Party (5.04.06) and the
Organizing Committee we would like to share with you the following
information:
* We received almost 80 submissions coming from 22 countries. It shows as
successful our Conference will be.
In the next couple of weeks those abstracts should be evaluated by
Scientific Committee members. As the time for oral presentations is limited,
we need to wait the evaluation of all submissions to finish our scientific
program.
To see submissions and evaluation status, please visit our web page and
chose Abstracts Status under Hot Keys
* Important information to authors is the possibility to publish some
selected papers in scientific journals. Besides the Conference Proceedings,
we have the offer of 3 journals (Maderas: Ciencia y Tecnologia, Drying
Technology and Scientia Forestalis) to prepare special editions with papers
presented in our WDC.
* Our schedule is to finish the program till the second week of March, as
well to have in our web page more detailed information about registration,
hotel availability, social events and others.
We hope to meet you all in Belém next year.
Ivaldo P. Jankowsky
USP / ESALQ
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WDC 2012
12th INTERNATIONAL IUFRO WOOD DRYING CONFERENCE
July 30 to August 03
Belém, Pará, Brazil
http://www.wdc2012.com/site/
Terceiro Aviso
Caros Colegas
Em nome do Grupo de Trabalho em Secagem de Madeiras (IUFRO 5.04.06) e da
Comissão Organizadora encaminhamos as seguintes informações:
* Recebemos quase 80 submissões de resumos, provenientes de 22 países. Esse
resultado permite antever o sucesso da nossa Conferência.
Nas próximas semanas os resumos serão avaliados pelos membros da Comissão
Científica. Como o tempo para as apresentações orais é limitado, teremos de
aguardar a avaliação de todos os resumos para então finalizar o programa
científico.
Para ver a relação de resumos e o andamento das avaliações visite a página
da WDC e escolha Abstracts Status, abaixo de Hot Keys
* Uma informação importante para os autores é a possibilidade de publicação
de alguns artigos, a serem selecionados dentre os que constarem da
programação. Além dos Anais do evento, temos a oferta de três periódicos
(Maderas: Ciencia y Tecnologia, Drying Technology and Scientia Forestalis)
no sentido de preparar edições especiais com artigos apresentados na WDC
2012.
* Nossa programação é finalizar o programa científico até a segunda semana
de março; bem como incluir na página da WDC informações mais detalhadas
sobre a inscrição, disponibilidade de hotéis, eventos sociais e outras.
Esperamos encontrá-los em Belém no próximo ano.
Ivaldo P. Jankowsky
USP / ESALQ
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posted on behalf of Diego Elustondo, 5.04.06, by Brigitte Burger, IUFRO
Headquarters
IUFRO - 9.01.01 - Library, information networks and terminology Call for
papers/contributions: IUFRO and Information: Direction 2012
IUFRO Division 9 Conference
Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina, 8-10 May 2012
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IUFRO and Information: Direction 2012
Information has been central to IUFRO's brief since its foundation in the
nineteenth century, and it has maintained a specialist research group
dealing with information in various forms for well over a century. Following
the latest re-organisation, this role is now held by the new IUFRO group 9.
01, Information and Communication, which brings together the traditional
library, information networks and terminology activities (formerly 6.03)
with communications, public relations, extension and knowledge exchange,
along with the long-existing Latin American and Caribbean information
systems network.
The All-Division 9 conference in Sarajevo, May 9-11 2012, gives us a great
opportunity to explore these newly-unified territories and discover
synergies within them that will benefit both IUFRO's internal information
exchange and the global forest information network. Each subgroup of 9.01
will offer an individual programme, and this is a call for contributions for
the session to be organised by 9.01.01, Library, Information Networks and
Terminology, entitled IUFRO and Information: Direction 2012. For full
details of the Sarajevo conference see http://www.foper.org/iufro_1.html.
Objectives for the session are:
1) To involve the widest possible cross-section of those with an
interest in forest-related information
2) To explore opportunities for cross-sectoral work between the various
sub-sections of 9.01 and across IUFRO generally, to support and enhance
information provision is its widest sense
3) To derive from this a timely and relevant agenda for 9.01.01 to
take us up to the next World Congress in 2014 and beyond.
So we invite your ideas! In which directions should we be heading in 2012?
What are your priorities in managing information today? What solutions have
you found, and what support do you need to help establish new systems and
services - or to reinforce existing systems much valued but now under
threat, perhaps for economic or staffing reasons?
We welcome proposals for conventional papers (15min maximum), and also short
contributions (maximum 5 mins) which can be presented in café-style
discussion sessions. We recognise that funding to attend conferences is
often difficult to come by these days, particularly in the library and
information sector, and many who would be interested may be unable to
attend. We welcome contributions from you too! and strongly encourage you to
send in short pieces which can be discussed by conference participants. This
can be in any form you like, e.g. PowerPoint, video (e.g. YouTube), social
media (Twitter etc), e-mail etc. We are not looking for sophisticated or
time-consuming presentation, but for ideas : suggestions for activities
where we as a group of information professionals can make a difference to
you, whether you are an information provider or user, or both.
Traditionally, our group has been active in the areas of networking,
classification and terminology, and in supporting the Global Forest
Information Service (GFIS); and more recently in the developing areas of
data management/archiving, mentoring, training & support and evidence-based
forestry. Ideas for further development in those areas are welcome, but do
not limit yourselves to them:
information is key to every area of human activity so nothing is barred!
Please send your suggestions in not more than 450 words, together with full
name of authors, affiliations, and an e-mail address by February 20, 2012,
to
gillian.petrokofsky(a)plants.ox.ac.uk<mailto:gillian.petrokofsky@plants.ox.ac.
uk>.
Please share this call for papers widely.
Many thanks!
_______________________________________________
posted on behalf of 9.01.01 Coordinator Gillian Petrokofsky by Brigitte
Burger, IUFRO Headquarters
Please see the attached PDF file for more detailed information about this tenure-track position.
ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF WOOD QUALITY/FOREST PRODUCTS
The Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources (WSFNR) of the University of Georgia (UGA) invites applications for the position of assistant professor or associate professor of wood quality/forest products, a full-time, tenure-track, 12-month, 75% teaching, 25% research appointment. We seek an individual with expertise/research interests in developing technologies to understand, measure, and manage wood quality from managed forests. A Ph.D. degree in Forestry, Forest Products or a related discipline and a strong wood properties research background are required. At least one degree in Forestry is preferred. Evidence of research productivity and ability to teach undergraduate and graduate courses is required. Hiring rank is contingent on experience and qualifications.
The successful candidate will provide leadership to the Wood Quality Consortium (WQC), a research cooperative among the Warnell School, forest growers, wood products manufacturers and the USDA Forest Service. This individual will develop a significant research program in their area of expertise and be expected to teach an average of two courses per year, including a Wood Properties undergraduate course and a graduate course in their area of expertise.
UGA (www.uga.edu) is a land grant/sea grant institution located <70 miles northeast of Atlanta.
To ensure full consideration, submit CV, teaching and research interest statements, official transcripts of all college-level work, names and contact information of three references, and reprints of selected publications by 15 February 2012. Start date no later than July 2012 is preferred. Send applications and inquires to: Dr. Michael Kane, WSFNR, UGA, GA 30602; mkane(a)uga.edu; (706) 542-3009. Visit http://www.warnell.uga.edu/about/employment.php for the complete position announcement.
UGA is an EEO/AA/ADA Institution
Dr. Kamal J.K. Gandhi
Assistant Professor of Forest Entomology; Forest Health and Protection
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602
Office: 706-542-4614; Cell: 706-247-4025; Fax: 706-542-8356
Email: kgandhi(a)warnell.uga.edu
Lab Website: http://www.kamal.gandhi.uga.edu/
Dear colleagues,
please find the second announcement for the conference “Forests for
People”, by following this link
http://www.iufro.org/download/file/7996/5124/tf-forests-people-alpbach12-2n…
Full information about the conference (including keynote speakers and
field trips) can be found at
ffp2012.boku.ac.at
The conference will take place May 22nd-24th 2012 in
Alpbach/Tyrol/Austria. It would be appropriate that you present findings
from the field of forest products, such as
· use of wood and non-wood forest products
· forests products marketing
· supply and demand for new products
You may also consider organizing a coordinated session.
We are looking forward to meeting you in Alpbach.
Best regards,
Ulrike Pröbstl
Univ. Prof. Dr. Ulrike Pröbstl
Conference organizer
and IUFRO Board Member
Institute of Landscape Development, Recreation and Conservation
Planning
University of Natural Resuorces and Life Sciences
Peter-Jordan-Straße 82
1190 Vienna, Austria
Website: ffp2012.boku.ac.at
E-Mail: ffp2012(a)boku.ac.at
Dear IUFRO Colleagues,
Dear Division 1 - 9 Mailing List Members,
The Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, is offering a Wood
Professorship of Forest Science
The Wood Professorship of Forest Science is a newly established post at the
Department of Plant Sciences and its purpose is to develop a research
initiative that will generate the fundamental science necessary to underpin
evidence-based forest policy developments. This professorship provides an
exciting opportunity for an individual with outstanding academic
achievements and vision to develop a world-class research programme at the
University of Oxford. The department enjoys an internationally leading
position in research and teaching in plant sciences, with research groups
focusing on biochemistry and systems biology, cell and developmental
biology, ecology, evolution and systematics. The Professor will provide
academic leadership in Forest Science in the Department of Plant Sciences
and throughout the University. He/she is expected to contribute to promoting
the 'Trees for Tomorrow' initiative within the Plants for the 21st Century
(P21C) Institute.
Applications should be sent by email to Dr Gwen Booth, Personnel Officer,
Senior Appointments at professorships(a)admin.ox.ac.uk.
The deadline for applications is Monday 16 January 2012.
Detailed information is available at
http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/global/wwwoxacuk/localsites/currentvacancies/furth
erparticularsforprofessorships/Wood_Professorship_of_Forest_Science.pdf
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International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO)
IUFRO Headquarters - Secretariat
Mariabrunn (BFW), Hauptstrasse 7 │ A-1140 Vienna, Austria
Tel.: +43-1-877 0151-14 │ Fax: +43-1-877 0151-50
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