Dearcolleagues,
Theabstract submission for the
1stFOREBIOM Biochar Workshop to be held in Vienna(4th-5th of April) is open!
Itis organized back-to-back with the European Geosciences Union General Assembly (7th - 12. April2013 in Vienna) aims at gathering the ongoing research on biocharfor energy and as soil amendment to improve the soil properties and highlightsthe need for further research in this field. Current research is presented byinternationally recognized researchers from leading institutions.
Moreinformation and a (tentative) scientific programme can be obtained here: http://www.oeaw.ac.at/forebiom/conference.htm.
There is noconference fee. All application details are presented in the attachedinvitation letter.
Feelfree to contact us for further questions and clarifications. The contactpersons are:
Viktor Bruckman Viktor.Bruckman(a)oeaw.ac.at
Bojana Veselinovic bojana.veselinovic(a)boku.ac.at
Bestregards,
BojanaVeselinovic
MSc Bojana Veselinovic
Scientific project assistant
Department of Forest- and Soil Sciences
Institute of Forest Ecology,
Univ.of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences
Peter Jordan-Strasse 82,
1190 Vienna, Austria
Tel: +43-1-47654-4142
Fax: +43-1-47654-4129
Email: bojana.veselinovic(a)boku.ac.at
~~Meeting Announcement~~
WP 7.03.05 - Ecology and Management of Bark and Woodboring Insects
WP 7.03.07 - Population Dynamics of Forest Insects
Banff, Alberta, Canada
September 16 - 19, 2013
A website with registration, abstract submission and lodging information will be available very soon!
For additional information please contact:
Bill Riel bill.riel(a)NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca
Allan Carroll allan.carroll(a)ubc.ca
Barbara Bentz (Coordinator, 7.03.05) bbentz(a)fs.fed.us
Rich Fleming (Coordinator, 7.03.07) rich.Fleming(a)NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca
Barbara J. Bentz
Research Entomologist
USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station
860 N. 1200 East
Logan, UT 84321
435-755-3577
435-890-3186 (mobile)
bbentz(a)fs.fed.us<mailto:bbentz@fs.fed.us>
www.usu.edu/beetle
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Dear Colleagues:
On behalf of the Scientific and Organizing Committees for the conference “Vegetation Response to Climate Change and Air Pollution – Unifying Evidence and Research across Northern and Southern Hemisphere” organized by the IUFRO Research Group 7.01. “Impacts of Air Pollution and Climate Change on Forest Ecosystems” we invite scientists, managers and decision makers interested in the topic of the conference to visit the revised Website: <http://www.iufro2013.ufop.br/> http://www.iufro2013.ufop.br/.
Pre-registration and abstract submission will start on 1 February 2013. For all other deadlines, please see: http://www.iufro2013.ufop.br/index.php/2012-10-15-13-45-25/deadlines.
Please note that a location of the conference has been changed from Rio de Janeiro to Ilhéus in Bahia, Brazil.
We are looking forward to welcoming you in Illheus!
Andrzej Bytnerowicz
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Dr. Andrzej Bytnerowicz
Senior Scientist
USDA Forest Service
Pacific Southwest Research Station
4955 Canyon Crest Drive
Riverside, CA 92507, USA
tel. 951-680-1562
Student Conference Scholarships
The IUFRO Conference on Forests for People
and
2013 National Outdoor Recreation Conference
Student Conference Scholarships
Motivated and accomplished students enrolled full-time in an outdoor recreation management, planning, or closely-related degree program are encouraged to apply.
Up to at eight student scholarships will be awarded for the 2013 National Outdoor Recreation Conference. At least half of the scholarships awarded will be to qualified students from within the surrounding region. A scholarship valued at $785 will be awarded to cover lodging, conference registration, and one-year student membership to SORP. Included in this total is a $250 check to be used for travel expenses. All scholarship recipients are expected to attend the full four-day conference.
The deadline for student conference scholarship applications is February 15, 2013.
For more information: http://www.recpro.org/student-conference-scholarships
Sponsor a Student to Attend Conference
Please consider being a student scholarship sponsor! Visit www.recpro.org <https://recpro.memberclicks.net/home> and click on the <https://recpro.memberclicks.net/assets/2012_Conference/sorp_sponsorship_bro…> "SORP Sponsorship and Exhibitor Opportunities" on the left side of the homepage. Any contribution amount is appreciated. Your donation will help cultivate a young mind preparing to enter the outdoor recreation profession. They are the future!
Don’t forget - SORP is a 501(c)(3) organization, making your contribution tax-deductible.
About the National Outdoor Recreation Conference
The Society of Outdoor Recreation Professionals is proud to be sponsoring the 2013 National Outdoor Recreation Conference with the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO). The theme of the conference is “A Bridge to Prosperity” that will highlight and showcase best practices
and case studies on how the outdoor recreation profession (planning, management, research and policy) is a bridge, connector and catalyst for prosperity through: Tourism, jobs, health and wellness, personal enjoyment and recreation; Education, environmental values, environmental stewardship; and Rural economic development and sustainable communities.
More information about the conference is posted at: http://www.recpro.org/2013-sorp-ffp-conference
About the Society of Outdoor Recreation Professionals
The Society of Outdoor Recreation Professionals (SORP) is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization formed in 1983. It is the Nation’s premier professional association supporting outdoor recreation professionals in planning, research, management, policy and administration. It is dedicated to the proposition that the welfare of citizens and visitors, communities, environment, and economy will be enhanced through opportunities for the public to experience and enjoy the outdoors.
For the past 30 years, the Society of Outdoor Recreation Professionals (formerly the National Association of Recreation Resource Planners) has sponsored an annual conference for the outdoor recreation profession. Most recently, the conference has been held in Baton Rouge, Breckenridge, Portland OR, Pittsburgh, Austin, and Missoula.
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Brenda Adams-Weyant
Association Manager
Society of Outdoor Recreation Professionals
(formerly NARRP)
PO Box 221
Marienville, PA 16239
(814) 927-8212
(814) 927-6659 FAX
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Dear friends and colleagues,
We would like to inform you about the upcoming International Workshop on
Wood Structure and Ecophysiology (WES) that will take place in Naples,
on 17-19 April 2013, in combination with the II Meeting of the
Cost-Action "STReESS - Studying Tree Responses to extreme Events: a
SynthesiS" (that will be held on 15-16 April 2013).
The Workshop will cover all contemporary key aspects of the wood
structure integrated with Tree Biology. We aim to bring together experts
working on different aspects of wood: xylogenesis and cambial phenology,
phylogenesis and ecololgical wood anatomy, ecophysiology and tree-growth
modeling.
Extended Abstract Submission: 15 January 2013
Website: www.wse2013.com
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ALFREDO DI FILIPPO, PhD
DendrologyLAB
Dept. of Agriculture, Forests, Nature and Energy (DAFNE)
Università della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy
www.daf.unitus.it/dendro
Upcoming event of IUFRO Unit 7.02.04 viruses and phytoplasma
http://dpg.phytomedizin.org/de/plant-protection-and-plant-health-in-europe/
Topic: Virus and phytoplasma diseases of forest and
urban trees
Date: on Wedneday, 29 th of May, a Satellite
meeting
Frame: within the 5th International Symposium on Plant
Protection and Plant Health in Europe
Organizing partners: jointly organised by DPG, ALVA, JKI, IAPPS, IUBS and
COST
Coordiantor: Prof. Dr. Carmen Buettner
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Devision Phytomedicine
Faculty for Agriculture and Horticulture
Deadline: End: 28.02.2013 (The deadline of submission and
upload of proposals for contributions (Title, authors and Abstracts) was
extented to 28.02.2013)
Registration:
<http://dpg.phytomedizin.org/de/plant-protection-and-plant-health-in-europe/
the-symposium/fees/>
http://dpg.phytomedizin.org/de/plant-protection-and-plant-health-in-europe/t
he-symposium/fees/
Dear Colleagues,
we invite you to take part in the second scientific satellite meeting of
Unit 7.02.04 on viruses and phytoplasma of forest and urban trees in May
29th within the 5th International Symposium on plant protection and plant
health in Europe May 27 29, 2013 in Berlin, Germany and participate in the
sessions and round tables.
The focuse will lay on all different issues on virus and phytoplasma
diseases of forest and urban trees. The topic of the meeting will bring
innovative developments, methods and ideas, new viruses and risk assessment
and management together.
Any presentation on the following keywords is welcome:
· monitoring, visual survey,
· detection tools, detection steps,
· known pathogens, unknown agents,
· risk assessment and control
· epidemiological and ecological evidence,pathogen transmission,
· economic importance, seed quality, seedling quality, wood quality
· certification of seeds and plants
Participants will have the option to take part in the 5th International
Symposium on Plant Protection and Plant Health in Europe under reduced
participation fee. The topic of the symposium will be « Endophytes for plant
protection:
the state of the art
Location: This three-day symposium will be held at the traditional building
of the Faculty of Agriculture and Horticulture, Lentzeallee
55, 14195 Berlin (Dahlem), Germany.
Accommodation: Berlin offers a large number of hotels. For special offers
please see the Symposium website.
Discovering Berlin: A number of opportunities will be available for you to
explore the German capital on your own (see
symposium website).
Dear colleague,
As convener of the session ERE 1.7 " Aspects of sustainable biomass utilization for energy and industrial raw materials" at the General Assembly 2013 of the European Geosciences Union, I would like to invite you to submit an abstract for an oral/poster presentation. After the great success of last year's session it was decided to host our session again. This year we can offer an attractive possibility to publish your extended abstract in the Elsevier Journal "Energy Procedia" (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/energy-procedia) You may find more details about the session here: http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2013/session/11641.
Please remember the abstract submission deadline: 09.01.2013. We kindly ask you to share this information with your colleagues.
Merry Christmas and a happy new year !
The conveners
Viktor Bruckman, Eduard Hochbichler, Bojana Veselinovic, and Vanessa Parravicini
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Viktor Bruckman
Commission for Interdisciplinary Ecological Studies (KIOES)
of the Austrian Academy of Sciences,
Bäckerstraße 5, 1010 Vienna, AUSTRIA
Postal Address: Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2, A-1010 Vienna
Telephone: +43 1 51581 3200
Fax: +43 1 51581 3203
Mobile: +43 664 6127259
Email: viktor.bruckman(a)oeaw.ac.at
Web: http://www.oeaw.ac.at/kioes/
Von: recpro(a)memberclicks-mail.net [mailto:recpro@memberclicks-mail.net] Im Auftrag von Brenda Adams-Weyant
Gesendet: Dienstag, 11. Dezember 2012 15:30
An: burger(a)iufro.org
Betreff: 2013 SORP-FFP Call for Presentations Update
Call for Presentation and Poster Proposals
IUFRO Conference on Forests for People
and
The 2013 National Outdoor Recreation Conference
The response for submitting abstracts for poster and presentation sessions to the IUFRO Conference on Forests for People and the 2013 National Outdoor Recreation Conference has been gratifuying. Ninety-five abstracts have been submitted to date---some to host a larger session and some for individual presentations.
Due to the normal challenges of international communications, we have decided to extend the deadline for abstracts for the IUFRO Conference on Forests for People to January 15, 2013.
The submittal requirements and directions remain the same.
<https://recpro.memberclicks.net/assets/2012_Conference/2013_call_for_presen…> Click here to download the Call for Proposals and Abstract Submission Form package.
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Brenda Adams-Weyant
Association Manager
Society of Outdoor Recreation Professionals
(formerly NARRP)
PO Box 221
Marienville, PA 16239
(814) 927-8212
(814) 927-6659 FAX
<mailto:Brenda@RecPro.org> Brenda(a)RecPro.org
Dear Colleagues:
The IUFRO-led Global Forest Expert Panels (GFEP) initiative will launch its report "Understanding Relationships between Biodiversity, Carbon, Forests and People: The Key to Achieving REDD+ Objectives" and the related policy brief at Forest Day 6, Sunday 2 December 2012, 13:30 - 14:30.
For details, please download the invitation at http://www.iufro.org/download/file/9264/5303/gfep-bfmr-forest-day6-invitati…
Best regards
IUFRO Headquarters
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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 0151-0 │ Fax: +43-1-877 0151-50
Website: <http://www.iufro.org/> http://www.iufro.org │ Email: office(a)iufro.org
XXIV IUFRO World Congress: <http://www.iufro2014.com/> http://www.iufro2014.com/
October 5-11 2014, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
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Early Alert (2 Nov 2012)
Upcoming International Meeting – June 2014 in Colorado, USA
A joint international meeting of three groups: IUFRO 2.02.15 (Breeding and Genetic Resources of Five-Needle Pines), IUFRO 7.02.05 (Rusts of Forest Trees) and Strobusphere is being scheduled for June* 2014 in Colorado (USA). This will be the first time these three groups have met together to share research in genetics-pathology of five-needle pines. The conference will feature advances in gene conservation, genomics, rust resistance and biology, evolutionary dynamics and other related topics. There will be some joint sessions as well as concurrent sessions organized by each respective group for other topics of interest.
Visit the websites below for future updates on this meeting, or contact Richard Sniezko ( <mailto:rsniezko@fs.fed.us> rsniezko(a)fs.fed.us) Anna Schoettle ( <mailto:aschoettle@fs.fed.us> aschoettle(a)fs.fed.us) Richard Hamelin ( <mailto:rhamelin@NRCan.gc.ca> rhamelin(a)NRCan.gc.ca; Richard.hamelin(a)ubc.ca) or David Neale ( <mailto:dbneale@ucdavis.edu> dbneale(a)ucdavis.edu) . We are building a mailing list for this meeting, if interested please send your name and email address to Richard Sniezko ( <mailto:rsniezko@fs.fed.us> rsniezko(a)fs.fed.us)
2.02.15 – Breeding and genetic resources of five-needle pines
<http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-2/20000/20200/20215/> http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-2/20000/20200/20215/
Our Working Party on Breeding and Genetic Resources of Five-Needle Pines is concerned with research cooperation and exchange of information on all aspects of genetic research on the five-needle pines. This includes provenance and progeny testing, gene conservation, landscape genomics, breeding, species hybridization, clonal propagation and testing, tissue or cell culture, molecular genetics, and the genetics of host-pathogen interactions, as well as ecology, evolutionary dynamics and management of these species. Increasingly though we are using this knowledge to address issues related to climate change, land use pressure and conservation
7.02.05 – Rusts of forest trees
<http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-7/70000/70200/70205/> http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-7/70000/70200/70205/
Our Working Party aims to bring together scientists and investigators working on tree rusts. Our goal is to foster scientific discussion and exchanges relating to tree rust epidemiology, biology, host-pathogen interactions, resistance, control and management, and genomics. Our working group meets approximately once every 4 years in locations in Europe, North America or Asia. We usually meet in locations that allow us to discuss our scientific findings and have field trips in a friendly and relaxed environment which is conducive to exchanges and debates. We want to place a strong emphasis on participation of young investigators and students, as these meetings provide unique experiences to meet and exchange with the related community.
Strobusphere
<http://dendrome.ucdavis.edu/strobusphere/> http://dendrome.ucdavis.edu/strobusphere/
In North America, a collaborative effort among researchers has begun, starting with a multi-national <http://dendrome.ucdavis.edu/strobusphere/workshop2008.php> White Pine Genomic Resource Workshop held on October 22-23, 2008 at the Dorena Genetic Resource Center in Cottage Grove, OR. The objective of this workshop was to discover and identify research objectives, strengths, scope and resources among the various working agencies. This collaborative effort is designed as a foundation to build wider scientific participation with a scope that spans molecular to landscape models, from host to pathogens and alternative hosts. The Strobusphere working group arose from this 2008 workshop. A notable work in progress: the sugar pine genome sequence is slated for completion in 2013 by PineRefSeq project ( <http://pinegenome.org/pinerefseq/> http://pinegenome.org/pinerefseq/) The sugar pine genome will be mostly finished and released to the public before the meeting in June 2014.
NOTE: there will be some joint sessions as well as concurrent sessions organized by each respective group for other topics of interest
IUFRO: Intenational Union of Forest Research Organizationsn - "the" global network for forest science cooperation
*The dates of the June meeting are tba (be will be the 2nd or 3rd week of June 2014).
