Dear friends and colleagues,
I’m forwarding an advertisement for a postdoctoral position at WSL in Switzerland. See below and attached.
For further information please contact Valentin Queloz, valentin.queloz(a)wsl.ch<mailto:valentin.queloz@wsl.ch>
Kind regards,
Ecki Brockerhoff
Coordinator, IUFRO Division 7 (Forest Health)
Forwarded message:
We are still searching for an excellent PostDoc candidate for a 2-years position @ WSL Switzerland.
The candidate should be able to manage big data and should have modelling knowledge. The candidate should have studied forestry or environmental sciences. Experience with ash dieback or emerald ash borer is an advantage.
The attached document provides more information about the position.
Thanks you for spreading this information.
Many thanks and best regards
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Eidg. Forschungsanstalt WSL
Dr. Valentin Queloz
Waldschutz CH | Protection des forêts CH Pflanzenschutzlabor C10 Zürcherstrasse 111
CH-8903 Birmensdorf
Switzerland
valentin.queloz(a)wsl.ch
http://www.waldschutz.ch
+41 44 739 2388 phone
+41 44 739 2215 fax
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Dear IUFRO colleagues,
we would like to invite you to the next EMPHASIS webinar “The invasion of
the North American Heterobasidion irregulare in central Italy
<https://goo.gl/H2UdNC>” that will be held the 24th November 2017 (10:30
CET).
The session will be delivered by Italy's University of Torino (UNITO
<https://www.unito.it/>) - one of EMPHASIS
<http://www.emphasisproject.eu/> partners.
The talk will deal with the invasion of the North American fungal forest
pathogen Heterobasidion irregulare in Europe. In addition to the
introduction pathways, the talk will present the factors that are likely to
play role in the invasiveness of the pathogen and strategies and tactics
for the containment of the disease, some of which tested in the frame of EU
Emphasis project.
For more information and/or registering use the following link:
https://goo.gl/H2UdNC.
*Please, do not hesitate to share the link with your colleagues if you
think this might be of their interest. *
You may contact EMPHASIS <http://www.emphasisproject.eu/> project through
Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/emphasisproject/>, Twitter
<https://twitter.com/EmphasisProject>, email <emphasisproject(a)gmail.com> or
through their website <http://www.emphasisproject.eu/> if you have any
questions.
Von: Gustavo Balmelli
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 16. November 2017 20:27
Betreff: IUFRO meeting in Uruguay (March 2018) - abstract submission
deadline is approaching!
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
please remember, the abstract submission deadline for the IUFRO meeting
"Improving Forest Health in Commercial Plantations", that will be held in
Punta del Este (Uruguay), is the next 30th of November!
Please visit our website ( <http://www.iufro2018puntadeleste.org/>
www.iufro2018puntadeleste.org) to register and submit your work.
Looking forward to welcoming you in Punta del Este for an unforgettable
meeting,
Dr. Gustavo Balmelli
Leader of the Organizing Committee
Ing. Agr. MSc. PhD. Gustavo Balmelli
Programa Forestal
INIA Tacuarembó
Tel.: ++598 463 22407 int 1389
Ruta 5, Km. 386. Tacuarembó
gbalmelli(a)inia.org.uy <mailto:gbalmelli@tb.inia.org.uy>
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Emphasis project <http://www.emphasisproject.eu/> presents its 4th webinar
about ‘Overview on Heterobasidion root and bud rots of conifers’ that will
be held the 17th November 2017 (10:30 CET). The session will be delivered
by Italy's University of Torino (UNITO <https://www.unito.it/>) - one of
EMPHASIS <http://www.emphasisproject.eu/> project partners. The talk will
give an overview on symptoms and impact of diseases caused by the fungal
pathogens included in the Heterobasidion annosum species complex. The
biology and epidemiology of these pathogens will be presented as well as
the main strategies of disease control, with emphasis on integrated forest
disease management.
Speakers will be UNITO <https://www.unito.it/> researcher Dr Luana Giordano.
Your participation will be of a great value. Moreover, Emphasis team would
be very thankful if you would share this webinar among your contacts that
might be interested in plant health issues.
To register please use the following link: https://goo.gl/zArs91
Once you register to the event you will receive by email additional
information to follow online the webinar.
Target audience are research students, researchers, agri-business and
forestry experts, farmers and foresters and any other person interested in
plant health.
We thank you very much for your kind attention and for your support to the
dissemination of Emphasis project.
Please contact us for any further information you may need.
Best regards,
Emphasis Dissemination team
*EMPHASIS LINKS*
Twitter: @EmphasisProject <https://twitter.com/EmphasisProject>
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/emphasisproject/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/7043229
WEB: http://www.emphasisproject.eu/
Email: emphasisproject(a)gmail.com
From: Dr. Ernest Foli <mailto:[mailto:efoli@hotmail.com]>
[mailto:efoli@hotmail.com]
Subject: Input to the 2019 GSDR
Dear Colleagues,
We are writing to request your input to the 2019 Global Sustainable
Development Report (GSDR). The GSDR, mandated by the United Nations' Member
States in the outcome document of the 2012 Rio + 20 conference, is meant to
strengthen the science-policy interface and provide a strong evidence-based
instrument to support policymakers in promoting poverty eradication and
sustainable development.
The GSDR is being drafted by an independent group of scientists (IGS),
supported by a task team of six UN-system agencies. Profiles of the 15 IGS
members are found here:
https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/globalsdreport/2019)
As part of its outreach efforts, the IGS is soliciting inputs from a diverse
group of scientific and non-scientific communities, from all over the world,
in the form of publications supported by short abstracts or descriptions of
case studies. Currently, we are requesting contributions in four major
areas:
(1) interactions among SDGs and their targets,
(2) transformation pathways towards sustainable development;
(3) looking beyond the SDGs (major issues identified by research which are
not explicitly taken into account in the SDGs), and
(4) the role of science for sustainable development. Contributions will be
acknowledged in the GSDR.
If you are interested in contributing to this important exercise, please
follow the below link to a questionnaire.
https://goo.gl/forms/bWjUsJmHPZCDkqxb2
With many thanks and kind regards,
Ernest Foli, PhD.
Member of the Independent Group of Scientists
Von: Gustavo Balmelli
Gesendet: Freitag, 20. Oktober 2017 15:04
Betreff: [IUFRO RG 7.03 FORENT] News of the upcoming IUFRO meeting in
Uruguay (March 2018)
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Time flies and we are just 5 months away from our WG meeting!!!!
On reply to many queries, we are pleased to inform you that abstract
submission deadline for the First IUFRO WP 7.02.13 meeting "Improving Forest
Health in Commercial Plantations", that will be held in Punta del Este
(Uruguay) next March, has been extended until the 30th of November!
Please visit our website ( <http://www.iufro2018puntadeleste.org/>
www.iufro2018puntadeleste.org) for additional information about this
exciting scientific event; you will undoubtedly discover many reasons to
attend this meeting.
Looking forward to welcoming you in Punta del Este for an unforgettable
meeting,
With kind regards,
Dr. Gustavo Balmelli
Leader of the Organizing Committee
Ing. Agr. MSc. PhD. Gustavo Balmelli
Programa Forestal
INIA Tacuarembó
Tel.: ++598 463 22407 int 1389
Ruta 5, Km. 386. Tacuarembó
gbalmelli(a)inia.org.uy <mailto:gbalmelli@tb.inia.org.uy>
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Von: Ayco Tack
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 19. Oktober 2017 10:57
Betreff: [IUFRO RG 7.03 FORENT] PhD-position at Stockholm University on
Climate, Insect life-history & Food webs
Dear colleagues,
We are looking for a highly motivated PhD-student to join our new research
project on the interactions between climate, insect life-history (voltinism)
and food webs on oak.
For more information see the project description (below) and the following
link:
http://www.su.se/english/about/working-at-SU/jobs?rmpage=job
<http://www.su.se/english/about/working-at-SU/jobs?rmpage=job&rmjob=4100&rml
ang=UK> &rmjob=4100&rmlang=UK
and dont hesitate to contact me directly by email, (closing date is
November 5)
My best,
Ayco Tack
ayco.tack(a)su.se
Project description
Climate change has already altered the phenology of plants and organisms at
higher trophic levels. Among plants, this has resulted in a temporal shift
towards earlier bud burst and/or flowering, and among plant-feeding insects
in earlier emergences. But more radical changes can happen than shifts in
phenology: with increasing temperature, species may increase the number of
generations per year (voltinism). Such changes may be extremely important
from an ecological and evolutionary perspective, as an additional generation
may accelerate both population growth and rate of adaptation, and may also
lead to temporal mismatches between interacting species. However, we lack
insight in how climate affects the voltinism of species within natural
multitrophic communities, and how this in turn may shape food web structure
and dynamics.
The overarching aim of the PhD project is to understand how spatial and
temporal variation in climate affects the voltinism of a diverse community
of herbivores and parasitoids on oak, and the consequences for food web
structure and dynamics. The project will combine several approaches: i)
fields surveys describing the spatial and temporal patterns in voltinism of
a community of herbivores and parasitoids on oak, ii) heating experiments to
disentangle how climatic variation (spring, summer and autumn heating)
drives the voltinism of, and synchrony between, herbivores and parasitoids,
and iii) detailed climate-chamber and laboratory experiments on five
selected species to probe the impact of voltinism on herbivore and
parasitoid preference and performance.
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Ayco Tack
Assistant professor
Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences
Stockholm University
SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
Visiting address: Svante Arrhenius Väg 20A, room N420
Phone: + 46-(0)8-163959
Mobile: + 46-(0)70-4942557
<mailto:ayco.tack@su.se> ayco.tack(a)su.se
<http://www.plantmicrobeinsect.com/> www.plantmicrobeinsect.com
<http://www.su.se/profiles/atack> www.su.se/profiles/atack
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Read an interview with Division 7 Coordinator Eckehard Brockerhoff of Scion
(New Zealand Forest Research Institute) about the work in IUFRO Division 7
and the All-Division Meeting at the IUFRO 125th Anniversary Congress.
Division 7 deals with topics that are all concerned with forest and tree
health, and the causes of interactions between air pollution and climate
change, tree pathogens, and tree-feeding insects.
Dr Brockerhoff pointed out that biological invasions and invasive species
have been occupying much of this Division's time. The impacts of invasions
are so pervasive and fundamental, and there are no simple solutions. They
are an unwanted consequence of international trade and the movement of
people from country to country.
"At this Congress we've learned, among other things, about the progress in
our understanding of what makes these invasive species so aggressive and how
we can better predict the types of species that behave in this way," Dr
Brockerhoff said.
Download the PDF:
https://www.iufro.org/download/file/27617/6146/iufro2017-interwiew-d7_pdf/
Link to the IUFRO Blog: http://blog.iufro.org/2017/10/17/on-forest-health/
Learn more about IUFRO Division 7:
https://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-7/
