Dear colleagues,

There is still time for nominations!

Remember to submit on line, following instructions bellow,  but in order to get the Division 8 endorsement, please let me or any of the Deputy coordinators from the Division know

Looking forward for your nominations!

The deadline for submission of nomination materials for IUFRO awards is May 15, 2023.  The specific awards are:

The Scientific Achievement Award:  Up to ten awards.  In recognition of distinguished individual scientific achievements within the fields of research covered by IUFRO.

Outstanding Doctoral Research Award:  One per IUFRO Division.  To recognize path-breaking doctoral dissertations completed in the period 2018-2023 within the fields of research covered by IUFRO.

IUFRO Student Award for Excellence in Forest Science:  One per IUFRO Division.  Recognizes outstanding individual achievements in forest science made by Masters degree students (or equivalent) completed in the period 2018-2023, in order to encourage their further work within the fields of research covered by IUFRO.

Best Poster Award: recognizes distinguished poster presentations during the IUFRO World Congress by under-graduate students, graduate students, and individuals who completed their graduate degrees up to 7 years prior to the congress. For this award, the corresponding author of the poster indicates consideration for the award during the abstract submission process.

Further information on the awards, who is eligible to prepare nominations for consideration, and nomination forms can be found here:

https://www.iufro.org/fileadmin/material/events/iwc24/iwc24-awards-call-for-nominations-reminder.pdf

You are encouraged to consider nominating colleagues and the Honours and Awards Committee looks forward to receiving the nomination materials.

Best,

Sandra

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Sandra LUQUE PhD, DR HDR
Director of Research

Chair IUFRO Division 8 - Forest Environment

Nominated Lead author for IPBES Nexus Report

CEOS Co-coordinator Task Force Ecosystem Extent

INRAE National Research Institute on Agriculture, Food & the Environment,  
Unit 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.inrae.fr/en

Associate Editor Landscape Ecology (Europe) https://www.springer.com/journal/10980/editors
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Text prepared in part by Tod Ramsfield, Division 7 Coordinator