[IUFRO Div 8] IUFRO report & News

Dear friends and colleagues from IUFRO Division 8, I wish you all a fantastic year full of great adventures and happiness! We do have this year our WC Congress in Curitiba and good work ahead, so this will be a quite busy year with also important decisions to take. We will need to restructure the leadership of our Division in terms of deputy coordinators and also changes in WP’s and Research Themes. We will have in Curitiba the meeting for Division 8 that will allow us to agreed and approve all the planned changes that will be discussing in the following month. For now, we need first to complete the report of activities for this past year that was extremely rich for our Division – so please send me before February 5 all reports and photos in relation to activities, meetings, workshops, publication directly associated to IUFRO that you coordinated and/or supported. This deadline will give me the time needed to assemble all information and also evaluate the strong topics that most impact had this past year within our Division. This will provide us with the material needed to ground our exchange and our strategy as a Division incorporating more actively all WP’s coordinators (which is not the case at present I am afraid…) I will be waiting then for you inputs, I would like also to organize a skype or similar for the end of February to discuss several issues – I will send a doodle soon to find a convenient date I would like also to remind you to spread the voice regarding the deadline extension for the IUFRO WC – we count on all of you for a successful WC in Curitiba this year Looking forward for your inputs with my warmest wishes Sandra Sandra S. Luque PhD, HDR Chair IUFRO Division 8 Director of Research at IRSTEA National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture UMR TETIS Land, environment, remote sensing and spatial information 500 rue Jean-François Breton 34093 Montpellier Cedex 5, France Mob. +33 769150689 Skype: sandra.luque2 <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sandra_Luque> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sandra_Luque