Dear Folks:
We are looking for a new Editor-in-Chief for the "Landscape Series" of Springer as the current Editors-in-Chief (Janet and I) are coming to the end of their term. Please step forward if you can commit.
Cheers
Jiquan
Professor
Landscape Ecology & Ecosystem Science (LEES) Lab
Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences
& Center for Global Change and Earth Observations
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48823
Email: jqchen(a)msu.edu<mailto:jqchen@msu.edu>
Phone: 517-884-1884
Fax: 517-353-2932
Web: http://lees.geo.msu.edu<https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefens…>
Von: Michael Rinderer <mailto:[mailto:michael.rinderer@hydrology.uni-freiburg.de]> [mailto:michael.rinderer@hydrology.uni-freiburg.de]
An: <mailto:office@iufro.org> office(a)iufro.org
Betreff: Workshop announcement
Dear colleagues and friends,
We are happy to announce the "call for abstracts" for our workshop on "Water and nutrient fluxes in ecosystems under a changing climate - a tracer-based perspective". The event will take place from the 4th to the 6th of November 2020 in Heidelberg, Germany.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together leading scientists from hydrology, soil science and plant physiology to communicate the latest research on water and nutrient fluxes in the soil-plant atmosphere continuum and to identify challenges and ways forward among colleagues from these three neighboring disciplines. We will have four sessions covering the following topics:
1. Transport processes and residence times in ecohydrological systems
2. Novel tracer techniques for investigating processes in the subsurface
3. Ecohydrological storages and fluxes mediated by plants
4. Methodological developments and monitoring systems
Confirmed invited speakers are: Dr. Matthias Sprenger, Dr. Matthias Beyer, Jun. Prof. Dr. Michaela Dippold and Ass. Prof. Dr. Giulia Zuecco
For abstract submission please follow the link:
We look forward to a lively and engaging workshop.
Best wishes,
Natalie Orlowski, Michael Rinderer, Maren Dubbert and Jaane Krüger
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Dr. Michael Rinderer
Chair of Hydrology
University of Freiburg
Freiburg, DE, 79098
www.michael-rinderer.jimdo.com
Dear Mrs. Burger
I hope you are doing fine and that you and your family are healthy.
Due to the pandemic outbreak of the COVID-19 virus, I have to inform you that the organization committee has decided to postpone the 5th international conference on soil-, bio-, eco-engineering (SBEE), which would have taken place from June 13th to June 19th 2020. Therefore, the SBEE 2020 is cancelled for this year and we hope we can rename it SBEE 2021 and that the conference will take place next year (2021) in Bern, Switzerland. Unfortunately, it is not easy finding a substitution date. As soon as we found a date, I will be happy to inform you.
We are obliged to inform you about the cancellation of the conference. However, I am not sure if you need to announce this, as all registered participants have already been informed by us.
As soon as we have more information, we will be happy to get back in touch with you. For now, I wish you and your family all the best and best of health.
Take care and best regards,
Eric Gasser
Bern University of Applied Sciences
School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences HAFL
Department of Forestry
Eric Gasser
PhD Student
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Von: Juanita Franco [mailto:juanita.franco@tropenbos.org]
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 01. April 2020 08:02
Betreff: Call for contributions ETFRN News 60: Restoring African drylands
Restoring African drylands
ETFRN News 60 – a call for contributions
31 March 2020
ETFRN News 60 will focus on dryland landscape restoration, from government and private sector reforestation to farmer managed natural regeneration, improvements to grasslands and rainfed agriculture, changes in tenure and governance, management of exotic species and bush encroachment. It will look at how to ensure smallholder and community participation and financing, while assessing the myriad roles of varied policies, current and potential roles of the private sector and non-governmental organisations, and how different relationships with local people and associations influence the eventual impacts. The environmental impacts of landscape-level restoration appear to be clear, the social impacts less so, and these will also be further analysed in the light of the above contexts.
While acknowledging that dryland restoration efforts are occurring globally, this edition will focus on African experiences and especially those from the Sahel and the Greater Horn of Africa, though those from elsewhere that could bring such cases into context will also be considered. This ETFRN News will highlight lessons learned in the broadest sense, identifying barriers and knowledge gaps, and opportunities that would promote effective scaling out of what could guarantee the most positive social, environmental and economic impacts. It will build on the current momentum for landscape restoration, supporting and complementing national initiatives, and the commitments of governments to international goals agreed through conventions and declarations.
If you have a story to tell on dryland restoration in Africa and would like to share it, send a short outline (half page to a page) to the co-editors Nick Pasiecznik (nick.pasiecznik(a)tropenbos.org) and Chris Reij ( <mailto:chris.reij@wri.org> chris.reij(a)wri.org) by 30 April 2020. When doing so, please consider the following questions that this edition will look at answering…
· What factors (technical, social, policy, economic, financial) contributed to the success or failure of the dryland restoration approach/mechanism/experience, and in what ways?
· To what extent were different stakeholders consulted, involved and who benefitted, including local communities, gender and youth aspects?
· Is landscape restoration providing any broader benefits, e.g. improving community resilience, food, fodder, fuel and water security, and to reducing poverty, out-migration, conflict and extremism?
· How can effective restoration initiatives be better financed, and what other measures are needed to maximise scaling out to the level required to meet national and international goals?
· At a global level, how can the current international attention for dryland forest and landscape restoration be better translated into successes on the ground?
All those submitting abstracts will be contacted by 15 May, and successful authors will be offered a framework and a dedicated editor to assist in transforming summaries to illustrated realities. Full articles (2500-3000 words) must then be submitted at the latest by 15 July, and following editing and review, will be published online, beginning in October. They will then be published together as a printed compendium, for release in January 2021.
Download here the call in English and French <https://www.tropenbos.org/file.php/2332/etfrn-news-60-call.pdf>
Juanita W. Franco
Communication Officer
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