#IBFRA18 <http://mailchi.mp/af9aef4741b1/conference-announcement-cool-forests-at-risk-17-20-september-2580277?e=fb75bea657> View this email in your browser On the occasion of the International Day of Forests 21 March 2018 <https://ibfra.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=396aea89a262d8672c84122a9&id=408b222eed&e=fb75bea657> https://gallery.mailchimp.com/396aea89a262d8672c84122a9/images/ced816f9-d18… Cool forests at risk? The critical role of boreal and mountain ecosystems for people, bioeconomy, and climate 17-20 September 2018, Laxenburg (near Vienna), Austria. The International Boreal Forest Research Association is pleased to announce, in collaboration with the Pan-Eurasian Experiment (PEEX), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), and supported by the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) the IBFRA18 "Cool forests at risk? The critical role of boreal and mountain ecosystems for people, bioeconomy, and climate” conference to be held in Laxenburg, Austria. The event will focus on both boreal and high altitude forests. It will launch an initiative to raise awareness, maintain, and promote the multiple, critical values provided by those ecosystems. Hosted by IIASA on 17-20 September 2018, the event will bring together and support the dialogue of academia and decision makers from policy, business, and civil society as the start of a collective effort to create solutions for a sustainable future for the earth system. <https://ibfra.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=396aea89a262d8672c84122a9&id=711ac41ee5&e=fb75bea657> Latest conference information on the IBFRA18 website <https://ibfra.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=396aea89a262d8672c84122a9&id=76bee17c0f&e=fb75bea657> https://gallery.mailchimp.com/396aea89a262d8672c84122a9/images/d9f61d87-e66… https://gallery.mailchimp.com/396aea89a262d8672c84122a9/images/589192e2-2e8… <https://ibfra.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=396aea89a262d8672c84122a9&id=251ef41cf2&e=fb75bea657> https://gallery.mailchimp.com/396aea89a262d8672c84122a9/images/8e427fbf-9d8… Sign up to be an Ambassador for Cool Forests and join the collective effort to work together to create solutions for a sustainable future for boreal and mountain ecosystems for people, bioeconomy, and our climate. <https://ibfra.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=396aea89a262d8672c84122a9&id=eee7e6c1cf&e=fb75bea657> Find out more We are proud to present a first list of speakers: Jaana Bäck Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research INAR / Forest Sciences University of Helsinki, Finland Alexander Buck (to be confirmed) International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) Markku Kulmala Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR), University of Helsinki Werner Kurz (to be confirmed) Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, Canada Woo-Kyun Lee Division of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Korea University Raisa Mäkipää Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE) Christiane Schmullius Department for Earth Observation, Faculty of Chemistry and Earth Sciences, Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU), Germany Anatoly Shvidenko International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) Eugene Vaganov Siberian Federal University, Russia For a constantly updated list of speakers <https://ibfra.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=396aea89a262d8672c84122a9&id=3dcd8a1296&e=fb75bea657> check the website. <https://ibfra.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=396aea89a262d8672c84122a9&id=a3865b315e&e=fb75bea657> Preliminary conference program Copyright © 2018 International Boreal Forest Research Association, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you participated in an IBFRA event or you requested to be added to the IBFRA mailing list. Our mailing address is: International Boreal Forest Research Association 580 Booth Street Ottawa, On K1A 0E4 Canada <file:///\\ibfra.us9.list-manage.com\vcard%3fu=396aea89a262d8672c84122a9&id=a51cafe28a> Add us to your address book <https://ibfra.us9.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=396aea89a262d8672c84122a9&id=a51cafe28a&e=fb75bea657&c=4afd0294f4> unsubscribe from this list <https://ibfra.us9.list-manage.com/profile?u=396aea89a262d8672c84122a9&id=a51cafe28a&e=fb75bea657> update subscription preferences <http://www.mailchimp.com/monkey-rewards/?utm_source=freemium_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=monkey_rewards&aid=396aea89a262d8672c84122a9&afl=1> Email Marketing Powered by MailChimp <https://ibfra.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=396aea89a262d8672c84122a9&id=f0c58de9ed&e=fb75bea657> IIASA Disclamer https://ibfra.us9.list-manage.com/track/open.php?u=396aea89a262d8672c84122a…